Clearwire, Comcast, Huawei and ITRI join WiMAX Forum Board of Directors

Posted : Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:02:43 GMT

PORTLAND, Ore. - (Business Wire) Today the WiMAX Forum^® announced the addition of four new members to its Board of Directors: Ali Tabassi, senior vice president of global ecosystem and standards for Clearwire Corporation, Dave Williams, senior vice president of wireless technology at Comcast Cable, Thomas Lee, vice director of industry standards department for Huawei Technologies, and Bao-Shuh Paul Lin, vice president and general director of the Information and Communications Research Laboratories at Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI).

"The WiMAX Forum's Board of Directors is comprised of a diverse group of the industry's top operators, device and infrastructure vendors and chipset vendors," said Ron Resnick, president and chairman of the WiMAX Forum. "The addition of these industry leaders to the board demonstrates their strong commitment to drive momentum for the adoption of WiMAX as a leading broadband wireless Internet technology of choice available today."

Other members of the WiMAX Forum Board include: Airspan Networks, Alcatel-Lucent, Alvarion, Aperto Networks, British Telecom, Fujitsu, Intel Corporation, KDDI, KT, Motorola, Nokia Siemens Networks, Samsung, Sprint, and ZTE.

Ali Tabassi is the senior vice president of global ecosystem and standards for Clearwire Corporation and has more than 20 years of experience in development, integration, and operation of wireless solutions in the telecommunications, networking, and IP industries. Mr. Tabassi is responsible for leading Clearwire's industry standards, global advocacy, and intellectual property invention programs, and is also responsible for the company's international network engineering and operations.

Dave Williams is the senior vice president of wireless technology at Comcast Cable and is responsible for the evaluation and strategy of wireless technology solutions. Additionally, his expertise serves the boards of the GSM Association, Vantage Point, and Bubble Motion, Femto Forum and now the WiMAX Forum.

As the Vice Director of the Industry Standards Department at Huawei, Thomas Lee is responsible for policies on 3GPP, IEEE, WiMAX, ITU-R WP5D (past as WP8F), NGMN and 3GPP2. He has worked at Huawei for 12 years, with experiences on Wireless product Development, R&D information system and document center management, business re-engineering of R&D processes, standardization and corporate strategy. He is a member of IEEE-SA Corporate Advisory Group (CaG) in 2007-2009, as well as a member of IEEE-SA BoG International Ad Hoc in 2009.

Dr. Bao-Shuh Paul Lin is the vice president and general director of the Information and Communications Research Laboratories (ICL), at Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). He also directs the Committee of Communication Industry Development in Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs. An IEEE Fellow and influential participant in the industrial technical policy arena, Dr. Lin has been actively involved in launching the National Technology Development Programs in Taiwan.

The WiMAX Forum's membership base represents a thriving WiMAX ecosystem which supports the more than 455 WiMAX network deployments in 135 countries. A complete list of members is available online at http://www.wimaxforum.org/about/. The WiMAX Forum is the worldwide consortium focused on global adoption of WiMAX and chartered to establish certification processes that achieve interoperability, publish technical specifications based on recognized standards, promote the technology and pursue a favorable regulatory environment.

About the WiMAX Forum^®

The WiMAX Forum^® is an industry-led, not-for-profit organization formed to certify and promote the compatibility and interoperability of broadband wireless products based upon the harmonized IEEE 802.16e/ETSI HiperMAN standard. A WiMAX Forum goal is to accelerate the introduction of these systems into the marketplace. WiMAX Forum Certified products are interoperable and support broadband fixed, nomadic, portable and mobile services. Along these lines, the WiMAX Forum works closely with service providers and regulators to ensure that WiMAX Forum Certified systems meet customer and government requirements. Through the WiMAX Forum Congress Events Series of global trade shows and events, the WiMAX Forum is committed to furthering education, training and collaboration to expand the reach of the WiMAX ecosystem. For more information, visit the trade show link at www.wimaxforum.org.

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