Wavesat Inc., a developer of OFDM Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) silicon solutions, today announced that it has entered into a Cooperative Agreement with ZTE Corporation of Shenzhen to evaluate Wavesat's DM256 chip and confirm it meets the performance and technology requirements of ZTE's customers.

Both Wavesat and ZTE are members of the WiMAX Forum. They believe that their cooperation will be the catalyst to its commercialization, and will make the Fixed Wireless business case compelling to operators and accelerate the deployment of this technology.