WiMAXCert is available for booking mobile 3.5GHz profiles certification test

Reservation for WiMAX Forum 3.5GHz Certification Test via WiMAXCert is open! WiMAX Forum has announced Certification Test of 3.5GHz profiles will start on Oct 1, 2008. Now the profiles have been added into WiMAXCert system, it means you can reserve a time slot to Bureau Veritas ADT any time. WiMAXCert is a centralized booking system controlled by WiMAX Forum, you can follow below steps to complete whole reservation:

How to reserve a WiMAX Forum Certification time slot?
•Step 1: Visit WiMAX Forum member website. Roll down the scroll bar of member home page and click the first link of "Certification Resources". Then, turn to WiMAX Certification Program.
•Step 2: Click the blue bar name "WiMAXCert" and you will be connected to WiMAXCert Tool. Please note only Principle Members can access this and only 2 accounts a principle member company can use.
•Step 3: Complete Request for Quotation, select Bureau Veritas ADT as certification lab and fill in the beginning date you prefer. After that, we will contact you in shortly.

If WiMAXCert has any problem when you access, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Bureau Veritas ADT become a WFDVL

To speed up WiMAX Forum's validation work with current limited resource, Bureau Veritas ADT planed to apply the WFDVL (WiMAX Forum Designated Validation Lab) from July 2008. In Denver's WiMAX Forum CWG F2F meeting this year, Bureau Veritas ADT had a presentation to show its plan on 3.5 GHz validation and wish to provide additional resource for WiMAX Forum's validation work. With active application and well preparation, Bureau Veritas ADT sent out its formal proposal for the WFDVL in August, and got a formal reply from WiMAX Forum CWG on Sep. 5th, which said Bureau Veritas ADT was approved to be a WFDVL after the CWG TCVal committee meeting and review. Bureau Veritas ADT was please to know this and expected to begin the validation work soon.

Bureau Veritas ADT completed two M-Taiwan Base Station Interoperatility tests. It is a leader for this testing in Taiwan.

Bureau Veritas ADT, accredited for M-Taiwan test, also the first WiMAX Forum Designated Certification Laboratory (WFDCL) in Taiwan, is proud to announce that it has completed first and second M-Taiwan Base Station Interoperability tests in Taiwan. M-Taiwan Interoperability test is the last step to help customer’s device obtain 1st stage of M-Taiwan logo. Both devices are 2.5GHz base stations. Bureau Veritas ADT is a leader of WiMAX testing in Taiwan.

Reporting: Latest WiMAX and Wi-Fi Certification Status Seminar

Bureau Veritas ADT held the seminar on Sept. 10th in its head office. There were 85 attendees attending the seminar from 28 companies, including 12 WiMAX Forum principal members. The topics covered Wi-Fi testing standards, WiMAX RPT test cases, WCB and the latest updates on CWG 2.5Hz/3.5Hz certification. Furthermore, we specified some FAQs that may occur when a principle member apply for certification. The attendees were very interested in this session and some of them proposed more questions, summarized as below, that have occured or may occur to them.

•Application issue when a subsidiary (of a principle memeber) is applying for certification
•Two-year storage period of WiMAX Forum's policy
•Test policy in the case that the brand is owed by another different company or one company has 2 or more brands
•Cost issue concering a product family certified at the same time and different times

If you are interested in the presentations of this seminar or the issues memtioned above, please contact our customer service representative or mail your request to sales@adt.com.tw.

Invitation: Broadband Taiwan 2008

Exhibition Information •Date: Oct. 7-11, 2008 •Time: 10:00-18:00; 10:00-16:00 (Oct.11) •Venue: TWTC Nangang Exhibition hall, 4F •Add.: No.1, Jingmao 2nd Rd., Nangang District, Taipei City, Taiwan •Bureau Veritas ADT's Booth No.: N408 •Bureau Veritas ADT's company profile

The exhibition covers 5 theme pavilions: Fiber Broadband Total Solution, Broadband World, WiFi Alliance, Dreamer of Digital Life and Intelligent Transportation System. Broadband technology and products are well approached to daily life, and these five theme pavilions are introducing Broadband application to all fields.

Broadband users are worldwide and expected to exceed 350 million in 2008. It is really a potential sector. Bureau Veritas ADT has a booth there to demonstrate our solutions how we can help vendors to gain global broadband marketplace. Welcome to attend this great event and visit our booth.

WiMAX Deployment Map

The WiMAX Forum now has an excellent tool to see which operators are deploying by country, frequency, vendor and stage of deployment. please go to: http://www.wimaxmaps.org/ to access this database.

Israel opens IEEE802.11n draft 2 product certification

September 4, 2008 MOC (Ministry of Communications) has announced that starting now the IEEE 802.11n draft 2 products (using 40 MHz channels) can be certified in Israel. There are some limitations applied to the use of this MIMO technology, and the Importers that get certificates of IEEE 802.11n draft 2 products must alert the customers of the products about this limitation.