WiFi Mesh Routers Design and Development Company in Malaysia

While chairing a technical seminar, I came to realise that a local company in Malaysia is also doing R&D in WiFi Mesh: Actinium Network. According to its official website, Actinium Network Sdn. Bhd. is a research & development company, MSC status company that focuses on design and development of embedded system, and wired/wireless solutions. In fact, they already have products in the market all over the world.

Chatting with their CTO, I found that we shared a common view on the positive prospect of WiFi mesh products, in particular in the provisioning of low cost broadband wireless solution.

First WiMAX certified products : Jan 2006

WiMAX Forum Announces First WiMAX Forum Certified Products
The WiMAX Forum revealed the first companies and products to complete certification and interoperability testing, including Aperto Networks' PacketMAX 5000 base station, Redline Communications' RedMAX AN-100U base station, SEQUANS Communications' SQN2010 SoC base station solution, and Wavesat's miniMAX customer premise equipment (CPE) solution.

About one year ago, the price was about US15,000 for one pair of BS+CPE. This is definitely too high for pervasive broadband wireless access. Hope fully with the more certified WiMAX products, the price will drop very fast. Meanwhile, I am also looking forward to the incorporation of WiMAX chip into notebooks which will make to CPE price much affordable for end users.