Nextel Testing Flarion's FLASH-OFDM

Nextel Communications will trial a wireless broadband service in the Raleigh-Durham, N.C. market using Flarion Technologies' FLASH-OFDM technology. Participants in the trial will include employees from select Nextel enterprise customers, including Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks and IBM. The trial will offer average downlink speeds of up to 1.5 Mbps with burst rates of up to 3.0 Mbps.


The announcement of this market trial follows recent news that Nextel is deploying WiDEN, which will increase its current packet data speed up to four times for the nominal cost of what is effectively a software upgrade to its iDEN network.


Cisco Systems and Nortel Networks are also providing infrastructure support for the trial/http://www.nextel.com