POSDATA and ArrayComm have agreed to incorporate ArrayComm's smart antenna software into POSDATA's high-performance base station. This combination is expected to yield large improvements in overall system range, capacity and coverage quality for 802.16e networks, offering WiBRO and Mobile WiMAX users higher data rates over wider areas. The parties also agreed to closely collaborate on marketing and cooperate to harmonize standards.

System development is being performed by POSDATA's Korean and U.S. R&D groups in conjunction with ArrayComm's R&D team. Work for WiBRO has already commenced, and availability is planned for fourth quarter of 2005. Commercial availability for Mobile WiMAX will follow.

WiMAX technology, based on the 802.16e standard, is designed to help service providers across global markets deliver economical broadband data, voice and video services to both residential and business customers. WiBRO, a Korean-based standard, and Mobile WiMAX, its international counterpart, are subsets of 802.16e and designed for mobile applications.

"Our vision and focus is to provide end-to-end, all-IP, mobile broadband systems to service providers that fit into their business models," said Byung-Chang Yoo, POSDATA's CEO. "POSDATA's mobile systems were designed from the ground up based on the 802.16e standard; therefore, the systems are not constrained by existing fixed wireless access or conventional cellular technologies. By partnering with ArrayComm, POSDATA can offer the first WiBRO and Mobile WiMAX systems with field-proven smart antenna technology."

POSDATA's all-IP, mobile broadband systems include WiBRO and Mobile WiMAX standards-based base stations, access control routers and terminal devices. This Radio Access Network complements POSDATA's long history of IP-based system integration, network integration and application development to provide total mobile broadband solutions to service providers worldwide.

ArrayComm's smart antenna solutions, operating in more than 250,000 commercial base stations in several wireless protocols, are field-proven to reduce interference and increase coverage in multi-cell networks, significantly improving operator economics and end-user experiences. ArrayComm solutions are designed to include the full range of MIMO, AAS and client-device smart antenna architectures.

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