Fixed vendor strategies - 2/7/05

Aperto will ship its new PacketMAX product portfolio to the Cetecom certification labs. It should be among the first wave of products to be WiMAX certified.

Meriton raised $54m round of funding to develop its optical business.

Ericsson said it will collaborate with Sun to develop an integrated multitasking Java technology for 3G Handsets. It will resell Airspan Networks' AS.MAX family of WiMAX broadband wireless access products.