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Module 9 - Wireless Systems and Technologies                                                                                 Slide 54 of 80                                                                                                    ________________

MMDS Standards

                                    Wireless DSL Consortium

                                    Open Standard

                                    Migration Path from Existing Technology to N-GEN Standards

                                    IEEE 802 Task force

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In September 2000, ADC Telecommunications Inc., Conexant Systems Inc., Gigabit Wireless Inc., Intel Corporation, Nortel Networks and Vyyo Inc. banded together to form Wireless DSL Consortium to create MMDS standards.

The consortium was to develop an open standard that meets the requirements of the marketplace today and offers a migration path from existing technology to a next-generation standard.

The IEEE 802 also set up a 2-11 G Hz task force in November 2000 to develop MMDS standards (http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/16/tgs.html).