Analyst: Cisco Eyeballing Navini

From Telephony Online
By Kevin Fitchard
Oct 1, 2007 9:41 AM

Is Cisco Systems aiming to become the next big WiMAX vendor? Technology analyst firm Think Equity believes so, and it’s betting Cisco will make its WiMAX move through the acquisition of Navini.

Navini is long-time broadband wireless company that several years ago shifted development from its proprietary CDMA-based nomadic platform to today’s Mobile WiMAX platform. Navini is also one of the few companies—the only major one being Alcatel-Lucent--to have built its platform on adaptive beamforming technology—something Think Equity feels makes it very attractive to Cisco. While most of the major vendors focus on multiple input/multiple output (MIMO) smart antenna configurations, Navini has plowed its development into creating a beamformed MIMO architecture that steers paired signals to a CPE or device on the network. The intended result is greater capacity on the cell edge, something MIMO in its typical configurations can’t claim.

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