Intel Ships Next-Generation WiMAX Chip With Support for Mobile Networks

Accelerating the availability of broadband wireless access, Intel
Corporation today announced the availability of the Intel® WiMAX
Connection 2250, the company's next-generation system-on-chip and its
first designed to support mobile networks in addition to fixed
networks.

The Intel WiMAX Connection 2250 is the industry's first dual-mode
baseband chip, and when paired with Intel's discrete tri-band WiMAX
radio, the solution is capable of supporting all global WiMAX
frequencies.

Speaking at WiMAX World today, Sean Maloney, executive vice president
and general manager of Intel's Sales and Marketing Group, also
announced that Motorola Inc. currently intends to integrate the Intel
WiMAX Connection 2250 into its CPEi 200 Series of WiMAX customer
premise equipment. Motorola joins several other leading
telecommunications equipment manufacturers currently expected to
deliver Intel WiMAX Connection 2250-based products in 2007.

"Intel is bringing its first mobile WiMAX compliant product to
market, marking an incredibly important step in the launch of mobile
WiMAX," said Maloney. "The first with dual mode support, the new
chip bridges the worlds of fixed and mobile WiMAX, helping equipment
manufacturers build customer premise equipment at increasingly
attractive price points, and service providers to break ground on
upgradeable networks."

WiMAX is a standards-based wireless technology for providing
high-speed, last-mile broadband connectivity to homes and businesses
and for mobile wireless networks. Intel's WiMAX silicon delivers the
features needed to enable cost-effective, high-speed wireless modems
for homes and businesses.

Service providers may benefit from the versatility and faster time to
market afforded by the dual-mode support of the Intel WiMAX Connection
2250. Compliance with both the IEEE 802.16-2004 fixed standard and the
more advanced IEEE 802.16e-2005 specification for fixed, nomadic and
mobile WiMAX functionality enables the development of customer premise
equipment that can be deployed in "d" mode and upgraded to "e"
mode with a quick over-the-air software upgrade. The Intel WiMAX
Connection 2250 is optimized for cost-effective WiMAX modems and offers
flexibility in equipment design, deployment and application.

Maloney went on to highlight the growing number of service providers
committed to building out WiMAX networks and said that trials and
deployments worldwide now top 225, with more than 40 commercial
networks currently delivering wireless broadband services. Among the
many service providers and equipment manufacturers currently providing
Intel WiMAX Connection 2250-based solutions and services are Telefonica
de Espana and Iberbanda working with Alvarion; Pipex and Yozan working
with Airspan Networks; GTS Poland working with Aperto Networks;
Teledata Moçambique, Lda (Africa), Crowley Data (Poland) and
Integrated Telecom Company Ltd. (ITC) (Saudi Arabia) working with
Redline Communications. In addition, Motorola, Alcatel, Navini, Proxim,
Siemens and SR Telecom, among others, have announced they will also
incorporate the new Intel chip into their product lines.

Maloney also highlighted work that has begun on a mobile WiMAX trial in
Portland, Ore. in collaboration with Clearwire and Motorola. The trial
is expected to run through 2007.

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