Aperto Networks, developer of WiMAX base stations and subscriber units, recently announced that its carrier-class PacketMAX 5000 base station has been declared WiMAX Forum Certified for IEEE 802.16-2004.

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Certification confirms that a WiMAX device has complied with test documents generated by the WiMAX Forum, based on the IEEE 802.16-2004 and the ETSI HiperMAN standards. This status is granted only when a WiMAX device has satisfactorily passed a series of authorized conformance and interoperability tests. Cetecom in Malaga, Spain, is the official certification lab for the WiMAX Forum.

Aperto's PacketMAX 5000 base station is now market-approved and is authorized to carry the “WiMAX Forum Certified” logo.

Aperto has been a key contributor and a founding board member of the WiMAX Forum since its inception. The company has been a committed WiMAX advocate inclusive of being the chair of the Service Provider Working Group, and an active member of the Certification Working Group, the Marketing Working Group and the Applications Working Group of the WiMAX Forum. Aperto is a founding member and multiple Chair of IEEE's 802.16 standard, chair of the Physical Layer in ETSI HiperMAN, a leader and major contributor to the 802.16-2004 standard, and a key advocate of the IEEE 802.16e standard.

The new, standards-based WiMAX products, built predominantly with off-the-shelf components, are expected to lower the cost of vendor equipment to service providers, ultimately serving as a catalyst to ignite the global market demand for WiMAX solutions.