SMART alliance launched by Navini, Beceem, Fujitsu, Runcom

"The capacity and coverage benefits of combining Beamforming with MIMO are very compelling offering up to double the capacity with twice the coverage of non-beamformed systems," said Sai Subramanian, Navini's vice president of Product Management. "This Alliance ensures broad availability of CPE devices that have full capability of Beamforming and Beamformed MIMO."

The SMART Alliance will publish a system performance baseline for the mandatory Smart Antenna features adopted by the WiMAX Forum(1) for Mobile WiMAX.

The founding Charter members of the SMART alliance are: