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Features: Sify Limited has launched first-of-its-kind WiMAX solution with Mobility features, with the deployment of Proxim Wireless Corporation's advanced wireless product.

Sify Limited has chosen and deployed Proxim's Tsunami MP.11 WiMAX product line as the core communications platform for last mile access using the 5.8 GHz frequency band. Sify has deployed over 700 Tsunami MP.11 base stations and 3,500 subscriber units to provide Internet access, voice and video broadband services to enterprise, residential and cyber café subscribers in over 200 cities throughout India.

Bhaskar S, chief technology officer, Sify Limited, said, "WiMAX is the future of Wireless Internet Communications especially in fast developing countries like India. With this launch, Sify has made a timely and strategic addition to its connectivity solutions portfolio."

Commenting on Sify's partnership with Proxim, Bhaskar said, "After testing and evaluating products from a number of manufacturers over a period of eight months, we chose Proxim's product line because the company met all our criteria, and its point-to-multipoint products offer the best packet processing capacity for last mile access."