WiMAX WORKS! – Beceem Launches End-to-End Ecosystem for Device Makers

Complete suite of terminal chipset, software and test tools enables rapid integration of Mobile WiMAX into any kind of device!

Bangkok, WiMAX World, March 19, 2008 – Beceem Communications (www.beceem.com), the leading provider of terminal chips for Mobile WiMAX, today launched ‘WiMAX Works!’, the industry’s first end-to-end device ecosystem program. This ecosystem gives device makers access to a complete and proven combination of WiMAX chips, software and test tools that enable the fast and easy integration of Mobile WiMAX functionality into any device.

In providing the complete recipe for the integration of Mobile WiMAX into any device WiMAX Works! is especially appealing to device makers without prior wireless experience, thus enabling any company to participate in Mobile WiMAX business.

“The era of Mobile Broadband services has begun with the deployment of Mobile WiMAX networks in Asia, North America and Europe. With modem products and USB dongles widely available, Beceem is now enabling the emergence of ‘embedded’ Mobile WiMAX devices,” said Lars Johnsson, Vice President of Business Development for Beceem. “Numerous operators have deployed WiMAX networks on the promise that they will have access to a wide variety of attractive devices. By providing Consumer Electronics, Multi-media, Entertainment and Computing device OEMs and ODMs a simple, proven WiMAX integration kit Beceem ensures that this promise is now reality.”

Beceem’s WiMAX Works! ecosystem supports all possible WiMAX features, device types and operator networks worldwide. In addition, the company’s chipsets offer field proven, industry leading Mobile WiMAX performance with seamless hand-off and leading-edge MIMO performance. Beceem’s chipsets are also used by the major WiMAX infrastructure vendors during all stages of their infrastructure development and optimization, ensuring that the devices built by WiMAX Works! device makers can be used in any WiMAX network around the World.

About Beceem Communications

Beceem Communications Inc. is the leading provider of semiconductor solutions for the mobile broadband market, and the first with commercially available terminal chipsets for Wave 1 and Wave 2 profiles of the WiMAX Forum, that are based on the IEEE 802.16e-2005 standard. For more information, please visit the company’s website at www.beceem.com.

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