Intel teams up with Nokia on WiMax

Intel Corporation, Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks to test interoperability across Intel’s forthcoming WiMax silicon for laptops and mobile Internet devices, Nokia WiMax devices and Nokia Siemens Networks WiMax infrastructure equipment.

Nokia said in a release that it would use Intel’s WiMax silicon product, which is codenamed “Baxter Peak” and designed specifically for mobile Internet and consumer electronic devices, in its forthcoming Nokia Nseries Internet Tablets. The Internet tablets will be among the very first WiMax-enabled open Internet devices expected to ship in 2008, Nokia statement added.

“WiMax enables the mobile Internet and makes it possible to get content on a variety of new mobile devices at broadband speed, and our Baxter Peak solution is designed specifically for these exciting new devices,” said Raviv Melamed, general manager of Intel’s Mobile Wireless Group. “Intel, Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks all recognize our collective responsibility in ensuring that people can take full advantage of WiMax. Simply put, the infrastructure behind the networks and the devices that access those networks must work together seamlessly.”

Intel, Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks have already started testing their equipment and devices with dozens of other equipment vendors’ products for interoperability and conformance with industry standards in Sprint’s Herndon, Va. testing labs.