The WiMAX Forum, the worldwide body for the licensing and certification of WiMAX has selected Livecast to partner with its Forum's Applications Lab Task Group (ALTG) to boost live video from mobile devices.

The partnership aims to focus on providing global wireless network operators and analysts with a hands-on testing environment wherein real-world applications can run on WiMAX technology.

The WiMAX Forum has established independent testing labs in Maryland, USA and Hsinchu, Taiwan which are designed to provide operators with a neutral WiMAX environment to showcase mobile broadband applications.

Operators can experience real-world examples of advanced services using the labs' low risk, proof-of-concept test network environment for load-testing, network stress tests and overall performance analysis capabilities, thereby expediting their own service implementation timeframe.

Livecast was invited by the WiMAX Forum to ensure that live video - an application extremely that many believe is well-suited for WiMAX Technology's high bandwidth uplink capability and continuous coverage - could be demonstrated to global operators while also helping to drive customer adoption in the future. Livecast says that its end-to-end WiMAX solution is highly optimised for use by the latest mobile internet devices (MIDs), internet tablets, netbooks and laptops.

"Livecast is an ideal application for the WiMAX network. We need products that improve the mobile lives of the WiMAX customer, and Livecast's high-quality video streaming does just that," said Masoud Olfat, co-chairperson of the WiMAX Forum ATLG. "By making the most of the WiMAX high bandwidth uplink capability, combined with effectively leveraging a new generation of faster processors and the addition of location based services, Livecast presents another compelling reason to use WiMAX."