Beceem Communications Sees India
as a Major WIMAX Market
Company
has Significant Core Technology Operations
in India
New Delhi, India, Jan. 10, 2006 -
Beceem Communications (www.beceem.com), a
leading provider of chipsets for Mobile WiMAX
technology with significant R&D operations
in India, today announced its commitment
to accelerate WiMAX deployment in India.
Beceem is the first to demonstrate and make
available a complete, highly integrated IEEE
802.16e Mobile WiMAX chipset solution suitable
for mobile, portable and fixed indoor/outdoor
applications.
Beceem believes that there are at least
three reasons why WiMAX is a great fit for
India:
- The demand for broadband connectivity
from urban homes and small/medium businesses
is growing rapidly and this cannot be met
effectively by the existing wireline technologies.
Wireless will be the dominant delivery
mode for broadband services just as wireless
now dominates voice services. Thanks to
its true broadband performance, early availibility
and cost advantages, WiMAX is best-positioned
to serve this huge Indian market.
- Several Indian service providers have
already acquired suitable spectrum licenses
to deploy wireless broadband services and
are planning early rollouts in 2006. WiMAX
is the first truly broadband technology
available to meet Indian market needs.
- The presence of leading WiMAX technology
vendors like Beceem Communciations and
other system integrators in India, will
for the first time, usher significant local
high technology value addition, and working
with service providers also help fine tune
WiMAX deployment in the country.
"Significant portions of Beceem Communications'
technology is grown in India," said Professor
Arogyaswami Paulraj, Stanford University
Professor and CTO/Co-founder of Beceem. "Our
highly scalable, power-efficient terminal
chipset products for mobile WiMAX with cutting-edge
signal processing represent a new level of
technology innovation to emerge from India.
We are very proud of our Indian team headed
by Rajat Gupta, a 20-year semiconductor technology
veteran."
"India is quickly emerging as a major market
for WiMAX," said Vinod Khosla, Co-founder
of SUN Microsystems and one of the world's
most renown high-tech VCs, as well as is
one of Beceem's major investors. "With a
population of more than one billion and a
growing economy, India is a huge market for
broadband and needs rapid deployment of such
services, which in turn will further accelerate
GDP growth."
Khosla continued, "WiMAX is the right technology
for India and Beceem Communications is well-positioned
to serve this market and can effectively
support Indian WiMAX service providers."
Beceem is pioneering IEEE 802.16e converged
fixed/mobile WiMAX technology and the company's
chipsets are being used by leading wireless
telecom equipment manufacturers to build
the world's first commercial mobile WiMAX
networks in Asia.
Beceem's leadership
position in the WiMAX market is driven by
its distinguished technology team led by
Professor Paulraj, CTO. Dr. Paulraj is a
professor at the Department of Electrical
Engineering, Stanford University, and is
very well known as the pioneer of smart antenna
wireless technology.
About Beceem Communications Inc.
Beceem
Communications Inc. was founded in October
2003 with the goal of building a wireless
technology company offering semiconductor
solutions for the wireless broadband market.
Beceem is the leading supplier of chipsets
for the recently ratified, IEEE 802.16e standard
on which Mobile WiMAX is based. The company's
solutions target both base station and subscriber
terminal applications. Beceem combines an
experienced management team with strong technology
leadership and seasoned Silicon Valley investors,
along with a world class team of engineers.
For more information, visit www.beceem.com.
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