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Telecommunications Cisco to buy WIMAX leader Navini Networks
Telecommunications Cisco to buy WIMAX leader Navini Networks | Cisco to buy WIMAX leader Navini Networks |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Wednesday, 24 October 2007 | |
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Cisco says the acquisition of Navini will help extend and enhance its IP next generation network (IP NGN) vision to enable service providers to deliver any service to any device over any network- a vision that Cisco calls the Connected Life. Cisco plans to integrate Navini into its Wireless Networking Business Unit, under the Ethernet and Wireless Technology Group. This will be acquisition No 124 for Cisco. Cisco says it selected Navini "based on its industry-leading product portfolio, unmatched innovation and its real-world commercial deployments with service provider customers worldwide. Navini offers a leading portfolio of broadband wireless WiMAX solutions with comprehensive offerings including base stations, adaptive antenna arrays, management systems, and subscriber modems, which has been sold to more than 75 customers." Cisco also expects that its broadband wireless solution portfolio, that will now include WiMAX products, will play a key role in its Country Transformation and 'Digital Inclusion' initiatives to drive broadband penetration to consumers and business in emerging countries. "Emerging country service providers are in expansion mode, building out broadband wireless networks and are concerned about deployment costs and the availability of skilled resources," said Brett Galloway, vice president and general manager of the Wireless Networking Business Unit at Cisco. "Around the world broadband wireless networks based upon WiMAX have the potential to add millions of new Internet users who cannot be reached economically using copper or fibre infrastructures. Additionally, WiMAX networks will help drive the transition to open IP-based broadband wireless architectures and accelerate the rollout of new applications and services." {moscomment}
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