C-DOT Alcatel-Lucent Research Centre (CARC) announced receiving the WiMAX Forum certification for 2.5 GHz band based 500 Series family range of Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) reference designs.

“We are thrilled to have achieved this feat, as this cements CARC’s on-going efforts towards bringing in open standard low cost CPEs designs to the mobile WiMAX ecosystem,” commented Sridhar Venkatesh, CEO of CARC. “The robust performance and the cost-effective design of the certified CPEs make them ideal to expand broadband and voice communications in both rural and urban markets.”