NextWave Wireless’ ‘No Compromise’ WiMAX Chipset Receives Product Innovation Award
NW2000 Family Selected A Winner In Mobile Broadband Category
NextWave Wireless Inc. (NASDAQ: WAVE), a global provider of mobile multimedia and wireless broadband technologies, announced today that Network Products Guide, a Silicon Valley Communications publication and a world leading publication on technologies and solutions has named the NW2000 Wave 2-ready family of advanced, second-generation mobile WiMAX chipsets a winner of the 2008 Product Innovation Award.
This annually venerated award recognizes and honors vendors from all over the world with innovative and ground-breaking products that are bringing essential and incremental changes and are setting the bar higher for others in all areas of information technology.
NextWave is accelerating wireless broadband momentum with its NW2000 chipset by raising the bar for mobile WiMAX chipsets — offering a compact solution with outstanding performance, very low power consumption and enhanced integration for mobile multimedia. The NW2000 family offers optimized 4G silicon to enable bandwidth intensive mobile multimedia applications, including streaming video, video conferencing, Quality-of-Service (QoS) sensitive applications such as Voice-over-IP (VoIP) and support for NextWave’s recently announced MXtv™, mobile broadcast over WiMAX service. To read more about this innovation, please visit http://www.networkproductsguide.com/innovations/.
“The goal of any product innovation must always remain a positive change, making or improving solutions better than before,” says Rake Narang, editor-in-chief, Network Products Guide. “Innovative products, such as NextWave Wireless’ ‘No Compromise’ WiMAX chipset, is making WiMAX a reality by lowering the barriers to WiMAX adoption by increasing the attractiveness of WiMAX devices to allow consumers a more enriched mobile experience while enabling mobile device manufacturers the opportunity to deliver more sophisticated WiMAX-enabled products.”
“Network Products Guide’s recognition of our ‘No Compromise’ NW2000 chipset further validates our product as ahead of the curve in the mobile WiMAX semiconductor industry,” said Craig Miller, vice president, Marketing, NextWave Wireless, Semiconductor Business Unit. “Product innovation is at the core of our business, and as WiMAX gains further global momentum, we are confident that our highly integrated, low power chipset combined with our proven mobile performance and small footprint will enable WiMAX to be available in a multitude of mobile devices. We believe greater accessibility is the key to accelerating the pace of WiMAX adoption by today’s global operators and device manufacturers.”
The NW2000 chipset is comprised of NextWave’s NW2100 family of 802.16e-based mobile subscriber baseband System-On-a-Chip (SoC) solutions designed for Wave 2 WiMAX Forum compliance, and its NW2200 family of single-chip, highly integrated, multi-band Radio Frequency (RF) transceivers, which have dual independent receive chains optimized for mobile applications.
For more information about NextWave Wireless, please visit: http://www.nextwave.com.
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About NextWave Wireless
NextWave Wireless Inc. (Nasdaq: WAVE) is engineering the future of mobility by providing next-generation mobile multimedia and wireless broadband technologies to the world’s leading mobile handset manufacturers, network equipment suppliers, and wireless service providers. From mobile television and mobile broadband systems to semiconductors and device-embedded mobile multimedia software that can be found in more than 200 million handsets around the globe, NextWave is evolving the way consumers experience mobile multimedia content. In addition, the company’s global spectrum footprint allows service providers to deploy next-generation wireless broadband networks utilizing NextWave’s advanced wireless broadband products and technologies. For more information, visit NextWave at http://www.nextwave.com.