On March 9, 2004, Wi-LAN and Wellink announced an agreement to enter the market for broadband mobile wireless Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) using Wi-LAN's LIBRA 5800 TM (Transit Mobility) product and Wellink's network backbone products. Wi-LAN also agreed to provide Wellink with broadband mobile wireless products valued at several million dollars over a 12-month period. The agreement is subject to certain terms and conditions, including feature enhancements of Wi-LAN's LIBRA 5800 TM products, based on Wi-LAN's patented W-OFDM (Wide-band Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) technology. These mobile wireless systems are intended for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) in the Asia-Pacific region. Intended ITS applications for the Wi-LAN / Wellink systems are broadband communications to high-speed trains, including real-time video security, video advertising and broadband wireless Internet.
In April 2003, Wi-LAN and Wellink announced an agreement to jointly develop a solution for the ITS market. Wi-LAN's technology teams have since developed the LIBRA 5800 TM series in conjunction with Wellink's development of the network backbone and other components that together make up a complete broadband wireless transit mobility system. The results so far demonstrate the capabilities of Wi-LAN's W-OFDM based systems under mobile conditions, thus providing practical confirmation that the OFDM technology being supported by the WiMAX Forum is a contender for future fourth generation (4G) cellular systems.