Marconi and Airspan Networks Partner to Deliver WiMAX Broadband Wireless Access Products.HANOVER, Germany -- Working With Airspan Networks to Bring a New Addition to Marconi's Wide-Ranging Microwave Radio Product Line Marconi Corporation plc (LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor :MONI) (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :MRCIY) has today announced it has agreed with Airspan Networks (NASDAQ:AIRN) to resell Airspan's AS.MAX family of WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) broadband wireless access products under its own brand. The two companies have signed an MOU (Minutes Of Usage) A metric used to compute billing and/or statistics for telephone calls or other network use. (Memorandum of Understanding A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is a legal document describing a bilateral or multilateral agreement between parties. It expresses a convergence of will between the parties, indicating an intended common line of action and may not imply a legal commitment. ) which will pave the way for a mutual reseller agreement under which Airspan Networks will also agree to resell Marconi's AXR AXR Absolute Executive Recruitment (Sydney, NSW, Australia) AXR Abdominal X-Ray (Access Radio) multiservice radio backhaul platform to its markets. Marconi will resell Airspan's HiperMAX, MacroMAX, MicroMAX base-station products and EasyST and ProST customer premise equipment. Marconi will manage these products through its own ServiceON Access network management suite. The AS.MAX product family has been designed to provide indoor, self-installable deployment. The EasyST is the first product to offer fully indoor plug-and-play WiMAX services and is being demonstrated for the first time at the Airspan stand (E09 in Hall 13) at the annual CeBIT exhibition in Hanover, Germany. The product line will be available for trials in the second quarter of 2005 and commercially available in the third quarter. "WiMAX is an exciting development in broadband wireless access; for the first time broadband wireless connectivity for residential and small business markets can be an economic reality. The self-installable, all-indoor terminal capability offered in the EasyST was an important factor in us choosing to work with Airspan," said Alex Marshall, vice president of product marketing at Marconi. "WiMAX is the perfect complement to our product lines that offer multiservice access for all types of wired users and sits alongside the AXR multiservice, backhaul platform in our radio portfolio. Furthermore, I am delighted that Airspan has agreed to market AXR as part of its product offering to its customers - it is the ideal WiMAX backhaul solution." Commenting on the agreement Eric Stonestrom, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Airspan Networks, said: "The launch of AS.MAX is an important milestone for Airspan as it is unique in offering an all-indoor, self-installable capability. We have launched the AS.MAX product line at this point to take advantage of being in the first wave of WiMAX Forum Certified Products(TM). Marconi has a very comprehensive range of microwave radio products and adding AS.MAX allows it to offer a unique breadth of wireless solutions, complementing a similar capability in Optical and multiservice Access." "Airspan recognises Marconi's AXR as being a powerful access backhaul solution. It works well in cellular and DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary backhaul and is well suited to the high aggregate data rates presented by a WiMAX base station. We are very pleased to be able to offer AXR as part of our product range," Eric added. Notes to Editors About Marconi Corporation plc Marconi Corporation plc is a global telecommunications equipment, services and solutions company. The company's core business is the provision of innovative and reliable optical networks, broadband routing and switching and broadband access technologies and services. The company's customer base includes many of the world's largest telecommunications operators. Marconi is a member of the WiMAX Forum(TM). The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange London Stock Exchange London marketplace for securities. It was formed in 1773 by a group of stockbrokers who had been doing business informally in local coffeehouses. under the symbol MONI and on NASDAQ under the ticker MRCIY. About Airspan Networks Airspan Networks is a worldwide leader in Broadband Access wireless communications, having delivered systems with more than 1 million lines of capacity to over 300 customers in more than 95 countries. Airspan's products are being used by carriers, service providers and in enterprise networks to deliver carrier-class voice, high-speed data and Voice over IP (VoIP) services. Airspan's product portfolio contains an extensive range of Point to Multipoint (PMP See point-to-multipoint and portable media player. PMP - Portable Media Player ) and Point-to-Point (PtP) products covering both licensed and unlicensed bands between 700MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. and 6GHz, including both PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. and 3.5GHz international bands. Airspan is at the forefront of the WiMAX revolution as a founding member and Board member of the WiMAX Forum(TM). Airspan is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida Boca Raton ("bōkə rə-tōn") is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida incorporated in May 1925. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 74,764; the 2006 population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau was 86,396. with its main operations center in Uxbridge, United Kingdom. For more information, please visit http://www.airspan.com About WiMAX Forum The WiMAX Forum(TM) is an industry-led, non-profit corporation formed to help promote and certify the compatibility and interoperability of broadband wireless products using the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 802.16 and ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute, Sophia Antipolis technical park, Nice, France, www.etsi.org) A non-profit membership organization founded in 1988, dedicated to standardizing information and communication technologies (ICT) throughout Europe. HiperMAN wireless MAN specifications. The forum's goal is to accelerate the introduction of these devices into the marketplace. WiMAX-Certified(TM) products will be fully interoperable and support Metropolitan Broadband Fixed and Portable Applications. For more information about the WiMAX Forum and its activities, please visit http://www.wimaxforum.org This press release contains forward-looking statements with respect to products, partners, customers, future growth and other matters. Please refer to the Form 10-K report filed by Marconi Corporation plc with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission for a discussion of risks that could cause actual results to differ materially from such statements. |
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