|
|
|
|
|
Japan’s Largest WiFi Maker Signs Up For Latest WiFi Technology
Published Feb 14, 2010
|
Ericsson the leading patent holder in mobile telecommunications, has signed an agreement to license its patented WiFi technology to Melco Holdings, parent company of Japanese digital equipment manufacturer Buffalo. Buffalo is the largest WiFi manufacturer in Japan with a market share of about 60%.
Ericsson holds the industry’s strongest patent portfolio covering technologies like GSM, GPRS, EDGE, WCDMA, HSPA and LTE.
Ericsson’s early research on GPRS and HIPERLAN/2 has been the basis of packet technology for later mobile standards such as HSPA, and more recently the latest WiFi standard, IEEE 802.11n. As a result, Ericsson holds essential patents that are key to developing products in a wide range of mobile technologies, including WiFi.
More and more people use heavy data applications like HD video and gaming wirelessly at home, on their laptops and set top boxes. Since many homes are connected to fiber optic networks, the bottleneck of data streaming is now in the wireless link, between the fiber and the devices like TV and laptops. The latest high capacity WiFi standard, IEEE 802.11n, provides a solution to this problem by offering significantly greater download speed. It enables several users to simultaneously access heavy data applications with high quality over the same wireless link.
Kasim Alfalahi, Chief Intellectual Property Officer at Ericsson says: “There are signs of an industry shift in focus from connecting places and people to connecting devices and applications. Supporting this shift, we make our technology available to others and create an eco-system where all manufacturers who develop devices can get a license to use our technology with reasonable conditions. Many of the major manufacturers of laptops and other devices with the latest WiFi are in the process of negotiating a license with Ericsson.”
For further information:
Hani Iskandarani
Chief Consultant
Phone: +965 9 788 6020
F:(KW) +965 2 572 1636
Email: hani.iskandarani@prleaders.com
P.O.Box: 39940, Al Nozha 73060, Kuwait
Posted by
VMD - [Virtual Marketing Department]
|
|
|
