Thank you all that had attended our 3G HSPA Product Launch Roadshow across Australia!

We’d like to thank all the attendees who had visited us for our product launch roadshow across Australia. It was a huge success! It was informative on both sides and for those who had missed out, we have made available our presentation.

Download the Maxon HSPA Product Launch Presentation 2009 (3mb)

Maxon will be holding future webinars for the convenience of all attendees globally. We will advise on the details and dates of these webinars as soon as they become available.

Should you have any further questions or queries, please do not hesitate to us at sales@maxon.com.au or phone us on +61 28707 3000.

Maxon Australia will be closing over the Christmas period. We will be closed between 22nd Dec and 2nd Jan. This includes all our sales and support teams.

It appears that the outage is now over.  Services should be working ok again.

We’ve been advised that the Next G network is currently experiencing nationwide issues.  The symptoms we’ve seen have been modems connecting, but not being able to browse at all.  We currently don’t have an ETA on a fix.

Posted at 12:39pm on Tuesday 31-07-07

Hi folks,

I know we’ve been quiet again for a while, but everything has a reason!

This is just a quick message to let you know we’re gearing up for some releases this Friday (6th July), so check back then!

I’ll be away on holidays over the next fornight, so Ashween will be keeping you up to speed on what’s happening.

In order to give us an idea of how many people are subscribed to this blog, we’ve had to change the link to the FEED.

Please update your subscriptions to this url: http://maxoncdma.com.au/3gblog/rss.php

The old feed addresses will continue to work for a short time, but we will remove them soon.

My appologies for any inconvenience!

I tried out Skype today using two Next G MiniMax’s.

I ran a delay test to a couple of major web sites first (google, news.com, bigpond) and the connection averaged around 250ms all up (bigpond was much quicker, but google was a bit slower). The signal strength where I tested was pretty much perfect. I’d like to test again while driving, but that’s for another day!

I connected two computers through Next G MiniMaxes. Both running Windows XP (SP2) and Skype 3.0.0.190. One was a standard IBM desktop, the other a MacBookPro (with bootcamp).

I tried two different tests, once with the video also turned on (from the macbook to the ibm), and once without.

Both tests worked perfectly! There was at most a half second delay between the two ends, even with video turned on (for comparison I also made a call to a friend connected over ADSL, and the delay time was exactly the same). Voice quality was fine.

The testing I did consisted of talking non-stop for 10 minutes from one connection to the other (from the macbook to the ibm). I did some rough measurements of the amount of bandwidth consumed at the “receiving” end, and here are the results:

With video streaming (after 10 mins of connection and non-stop talking):

Downloads: 6.3 MB

Uploads: 2.9 MB

Without video streaming (after 10 mins of connection and non-stop talking):

Downloads: 2.85 MB

Uploads: 2.4 MB

I found it interesting that even though I wasn’t transmitting any voice from the end I measured at, the uploads and downloads were still pretty close. This might be to do with how Skype functions more than anything else…

We don’t have a proper VoIP box to test with here, but we might be able to test something other than Skype in the future.

Bigpond has today launched the first two of our Next G modems, a MiniMax replacement, and a replacement for the old BigPond Mobile Broadband CDMA external modem.You can find out more details about the pricing options for these modems over at Bigpond’s Wireless Broadband page.

Sales and tech support for these modems is available from BigPond (Sales – 131 282, Tech – 133 933)

Make sure to check out the coverage for the areas you need mobile internet access in.

Unfortunately MAC OS support is not available at this stage, but we are working hard at providing that.

Maxon Australia was honored as a finalist in this years Telstra Vendor Awards (http://www.telstra.com.au/supplying_to_telstra/awards.htm).

From the Telstra Vendor Awards website:

“[The Telstra Vendor Awards are] a program designed to recognise and reward the significant contribution vendors make to Telstra.
The Telstra Vendor Awards recognise those suppliers to Telstra who are leading the way in developing improvements and adding extra value to the vendor-purchaser relationship – vendors who assist Telstra to create a world of 1 click, 1 touch, 1 button, 1 screen, 1 step solutions that are simple, easy and valued by individuals, businesses, enterprises and government.”

Maxon Australia entered into a number of categories, and were selected as a finalist for Excellence in Service Delivery.  It was rather humbling being recognized in the prescence of massive multinational companies such as Alcatel, Cisco and IBM.

Maxon Australia has been challenged to continue to strive for excellence, we have our eye on winning an award at next year’s Telstra Vendor Awards!