xchange Magazine Announces Best of WiMAX World Award Winners

xchange magazine (Booth 60) announced yesterday the Best of WiMAX World Awards, recognizing leaders in the development and deployment of WiMAX technologies.

xchange was tapped by Trendsmedia, producer of the WiMAX World USA Conference & Expo, to sponsor and administer the awards program. Nominations were open to exhibitors and sponsors of the conference, held this week in Boston. More than 40 nominations were received between Aug. 21 and Sept. 15.

The winners included:

• Commercial Application/Deployment — Service Provider: WiMAX Telecom AG
• Commercial Application/Deployment — Equipment Vendor: Alvarion Ltd. (BreezeMAX Si)
• Systems Design: ADAPTIX (BX-3000 Base Stations)
• Device/Peripheral/Application Software: ZyXEL Communications Inc. (MAX-100/200 Mobile WiMAX CPE)
• Chip Design: Comsys (ComMAX)
• Industry Innovation: Motorola (WiMAX Distributed Network Architecture)

The panel of judges is also proud to name the following companies runners-up.

• Commercial Application/Deployment — Service Provider: TowerStream
• Commercial Application/Deployment — Equipment Vendor: VCom Inc. (Broadband Wireless Internet Network)
• Systems Design: Telsima Corp. (StarMAX 6400)
• Device/Peripheral/Application Software: Redline Communications (Product: Redline's RedMAX Management Suite)
• Chip Design: picoChip Designs Ltd. (PC202)
• Industry Innovation: InfiNet Wireless (SkyMAN NG)

The winners were selected by an independent judging panel, including Charles Wu, principal, CWLab; Craig Mathias, principal, Farpoint Group; Will Strauss, principal analyst, Forward Concepts; Adlane Fellah, CEO and founder, Maravedis Inc.; Carolyn Gabriel, lead research analyst, Rethink Research; Berge Ayvazian, chief strategy officer, Yankee Group; and representatives from xchange and Trendsmedia.

“xchange offers its congratulations to the winners. Given the terrific response during the nomination process as well as the caliber of the members of the selection committee, all of the winners should be proud to be recognized as leaders in the WiMAX community,” said Mike Saxby, xchange Group Publisher. Eliot Weinman, Trendsmedia president and WiMAX World conference co-chair, said, “I am pleased to announce the 2006 WiMAX World Award Winners. The awards were chosen based on a careful evaluation and analysis by a group of six independent WiMAX thought leaders who on the WiMAX World advisory board. On behalf of WiMAX World and xchange magazine, we congratulate each of the winners.”

xchange www.xchangemag.com

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