Intel Corporation and NDS Group plc, a provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, have announced a trial system to demonstrate the TV and video services for fixed WiMAX technology.

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Highlights include:

-- WiMAX service providers can bundle TV and video with their fixed offerings;

-- Intel deployed a pre-WiMAX trial system in its Swedish Wireless Competence Center in Kista;

-- WiMAX technology based on Intel silicon working with NDS's secure VideoGuard conditional access; and

-- WiMAX service providers are able to generate additional revenue from delivery of valuable content to their subscribers.

Using the WiMAX IEEE 802.16-2004 standard and the soon to be ratified IEEE 802.16e, Intel and NDS will also collaborate on industry and market development activities. The companies will engage in demonstrations to service providers and the industry to show how WiMAX can offer more than broadband access with pay-TV services.

The pre-WiMAX implementation takes place at Intel's Wireless Competence Center (IWCC) in Kista, Sweden and demonstrates the first system to show WiMAX TV services including live TV, VoD and integrated electronic program guide delivery to an Intel Centrino mobile technology-based notebook over 802.16-2004 and 802.11. The current demonstration uses fixed pre-WiMAX equipment to deliver content to the customer premises equipment (CPE) and then WiFi to send content to the notebook. Companies intend to enhance the system to support 802.16e standard in the future and to make sure that security requirements protect the interests of content providers in an aim to demonstrate pay TV services delivery over mobile WiMAX to Intel based PDA and notebook devices.