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Executive summary In a nutshell Ovum view Reaching certification was the main achievement for mobile WiMAX in 2008 Update on mobile WiMAX certification A key WiMAX milestone finally achieved WiMAX Forum certified 16e products Mobile WiMAX infrastructure vendor comparisons High-level overview of vendors’ positioning regarding WiMAX, HSPA and LTE Mobile WiMAX represents the biggest opportunity for WiMAX Vendors are all employing end-to-end strategies, but with some differences The mobile WiMAX top-five suppliers Motorola Mobile WiMAX is key to Motorola’s wireless infrastructure business Motorola’s end-to-end strategy Motorola’s WiMAX customers Focus on Motorola’s relationship with the ‘new Clearwire’ Samsung Mobile WiMAX is a chance for Samsung to expand its infrastructure business abroad Samsung is the most vocal proponent of 16m Samsung’s end-to-end strategy Samsung’s mobile WiMAX customers Alvarion The specialist amongst the big NEPs Building a strong ecosystem to better compete against larger NEPs Tumultuous end to the collaboration with Nortel Alvarion’s mobile WiMAX customers Alcatel-Lucent Mobile WiMAX to address FWA and nomadic uses only as LTE is favoured for mobile broadband Alcatel-Lucent’s end-to-end strategy Alcatel-Lucent’s mobile WiMAX customers Huawei Goal to become the number one player in mobile WiMAX by 2010 Huawei’s end-to-end strategy Huawei’s WiMAX customers The challengers ZTE Keeping pace with Huawei ZTE’s mobile WiMAX end-to-end strategy ZTE positions itself as a long-term player in Mobile WiMAX Cisco Mobile WiMAX to bring the Internet to emerging countries Cisco entered the WiMAX radio business with Navini’s acquisition NSN NSN needs to go beyond its Sprint contract Nortel, the first NEP to exit the 16e market An exit in two steps Why exit 16e now? List of Tables Table 1: WiMAX Forum certified 16e base stations for 2.5GHz (MP05 profile) Table 2: Comparison of certified 16e base stations per band per vendor Table 3: Overview of vendors’ positioning regarding WiMAX, HSPA and LTE Table 4: Motorola wi4 WiMAX product portfolio Table 5: List of Motorola’s mobile WiMAX references Table 6: List of Samsung’s mobile WiMAX references Table 7: List of Alvarion’s mobile WiMAX references Table 8: List of Alcatel-Lucent’s mobile WiMAX references Table 9: List of Huawei’s mobile WiMAX references Table 10: List of ZTE’s mobile WiMAX references List of Figures Figure 1: Alvarion’s WiMAX revenues