Alcatel-Lucent announced that C-Dot Alcatel-Lucent Research Centre (CARC) in Chennai, India successfully completed the country’s first live WiMAX IEEE 802.16e-2005 (also called Rev-e) field trial using Aircel’s licensed spectrum, confirming this technology is ready for commercial deployment.

The trials were conducted using the 2.5GHz band and successfully demonstrated applications in moving conditions such as video streaming, high-speed file downloads, Voice over IP (VoIP) and Web browsing.

"By offering customized, cost-effective enterprise solutions using next-generation technologies such as WiMAX, Aircel aims to become the ‘Service Provider of Choice’ for enterprise, SMEs and corporate clients," Jagdish Kini, group chief executive officer, Aircel, stated. "Alcatel-Lucent’s WiMAX solutions and their capability to offer higher throughput are poised to address service providers’ challenges to offer reliable and affordable broadband services bundled with VoIP."

"Alcatel-Lucent and Aircel both see WiMAX Rev-e as a revolutionary broadband access technology," said Patrick Veron, CEO, C-DOT Alcatel-Lucent Research Centre. "The success of WiMAX Rev-e trials is another milestone for CARC and Alcatel-Lucent, as these trials reinforce our technological leadership for broadband wireless access in the country."