Press Release Summary: (Bangalore, December 20, 2007) Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (\"Huawei\"), a leader in providing next generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, exhibited its mobile WiMAX solution in Mumbai, India from 27th to 29th November to the leading telecom operators.
Press Release Body: With a population of more than one billion and a fast-growing economy, the demands for broadband access from urban residents and small/medium enterprises in India are increasing rapidly. WiMAX, which features high broadband performance, low cost, fast deployment and advancing technologies, is the best choice to serve the Indian market.
Huawei's WiMAX exhibition vehicle (live service demo) started its global tour exhibition in November 2007, and India is the first destination. As a floating exhibition hall, visitors can see Huawei's WiMAX end-to-end products ranging from base station to ASN-gateway, and experience abundant wireless broadband service. The IMS services are integrated with WiMAX, supporting video conference, VoIP and multimedia ring back tone services, providing the same service quality as wired broadband services. Visitors can experience high-speed Internet surf, VoD, TV Live and etc. The WiMAX download data rate is 8.6Mbps, i.e. more than four times of normal 2Mbps ADSL download speed. Huawei also showed its excellent upload ability by streaming high resolution video from a WiMAX-connected camera. Such video feedback technology has been deployed in Beijing Olympic sailing competition.
During the three days(27-29 NOV)., more than 150 high-level customers from Reliance, TATA (TTSL/VSNL/TTML), BPL, Vodafone and Idea visited Huawei WiMAX exhibition vehicle, evincing great interests towards Huawei's WiMAX.
Huawei has been engaged in R&D in WIMAX since 2004, and has been the main contributor to the WiMAX forum and standard organization. Based on the long-term experience in mobile and data communication, Huawei provides an end-to-end solution that includes core network, access network and terminal, helping customers to provide to reduce TCO for customer.
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