University of Maryland’s MAXWell Lab has been endorsed as the first open applications lab in North America by the WiMAX Forum. As a result, it will begin conducting WiMAX applications testing and development work for US companies as well as those around the world.

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“The WiMAX Forum is pleased that the MAXWell Lab is partnering with us to create an open applications lab that will serve the growing needs of our membership," said Ron Resnick, president of the WiMAX Forum. "As WiMAX technology is deployed, innovative applications will evolve to support the demand and new service models for mobile Internet. Establishing the MAXWell Lab promotes such development and provides access to the tremendous expertise and success in wireless communications and the development of advanced computer applications at the University of Maryland.”

The initial focus of the MAXWell Lab, which is part of the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, will be location-aware applications. For example, with the deployments of WiMAX in the Washington D.C. area, the Maryland-based MAXWell Lab will be an ideal site to test any applications that run on that system.

“With a community of some 45,000 people at the University of Maryland, this is going to be a unique facility because of the size of the potential test bed and large number of live users,” said Ashok Agrawala, director of the MAXWell Lab and professor of computer science. “Our students, in collaboration with professors, industry leaders, and WiMAX Forum members, will use the new lab to develop breakthrough applications and services, most of which we cannot yet imagine.”

In addition to the North American MAXWell Lab, the WiMAX Forum has also endorsed the M-Taiwan WiMAX application lab located in Hsinchu, Taiwan last October.

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