Nokia Announces the Flexi WiMAX Base Station

Nokia announced the Nokia Flexi WiMAX Base Station, an innovation that revolutionizes the way broadband wireless networks will be built, while minimizing operating and capital expenditures for broadband wireless operators.

The Nokia Flexi WiMAX Base Station features a small and modular design, which can optimize the costs of siting and operating WiMAX infrastructure. The compact size and light weight design of the base station modules minimizes the space needed, power consumption, and physical effort to install and run high quality WiMAX networks, and uses existing or new base station sites efficiently. It can be installed both indoors and outdoors and does not require air conditioning. Furthermore, its modularity will allow for easy capacity upgrades as traffic increases.

The Nokia Flexi WiMAX Base Station is part of Nokia's overall mobile WiMAX solution, which includes unique end-to-end infrastructure capabilities with radio and core network solutions along with a comprehensive services business solutions portfolio. Nokia Services include fluent processes for planning, building, optimizing, maintaining networks, integrating end-user services to the network as well as taking on greater responsibilities for service delivery through managed service operations. Nokia's mobile WiMAX solution is designed to work seamlessly with Nokia Unified Core Networks and IP Multimedia Subsystem.

The Nokia Flexi WiMAX Base Station will be commercially available for the 2.5 GHz band at the end of 2007 and for 3.5 GHz in the first quarter of 2008, while WiMAX-capable Nokia mobile devices are expected to be available in 2008. Nokia is presenting its WiMAX strategy and solutions at WiMAX World USA 2006, October 11-12.