Welcome to the WiMax Forum Cisco! News.com reports that Cisco has officially joined up with full membership to the WiMax Forum. This is a logical move since Cisco is already so involved in the 802.11 standards movement.

“Cisco has become a member, very recently, like in the last day,” said Ronald Resnick chairman of the WiMax Forum and director of marketing at Intel. Resnick added that the group now has about 140 members, along with nearly 40 applications for membership still being reviewed.

The WiMax Forum promotes and will market products based on the 802.16-2004 standard, which covers the wireless transmission of data at several megabits per second over a number of miles. Those products that are tested and approved to be interoperable with other 802.16-2004 products will be deemed WiMax compliant.