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WiMAX Forum Grows

WiMAX Forum Grows 01/16/2004 11:01 AM
The WiMAX Forum added 39 new members, including AT&T and Covad: The addition of major operators is significant as few operators had joined the group. The din around WiMAX is steadily growing as we approach the Wireless Communications Association's annual conference where the WiMAX Forum has tacked on a day dedicated to WiMAX....

Motorola joins WiMax Forum

Motorola joins WiMax Forum 06/22/2004 12:11 PM
The chipmaker sets a date for release of products based on the 802.16 wireless specification.

Cisco joins WiMAX Forum

Cisco joins WiMAX Forum 09/06/2004 02:14 PM
Telecoms.com Sep 6 2004 5:24PM GMT

Samsung Joins WiMAX Forum

Samsung Joins WiMAX Forum 12/29/2004 03:16 AM
TechTree Dec 29 2004 6:25AM GMT

Nokia quits WiMAX Forum

Nokia quits WiMAX Forum 05/10/2004 08:35 AM
Shock move by enthusiastic founder member

Airespace joins WiMax Forum

Airespace joins WiMax Forum 05/26/2004 01:48 PM
ZDNet May 26 2004 5:39PM GMT

Nokia to rejoin WiMAX Forum

Nokia to rejoin WiMAX Forum 06/18/2004 06:24 AM
Founder member comes home

WiMax Forum adds carriers

WiMax Forum adds carriers 04/26/2004 02:37 PM
CNET Apr 26 2004 6:38PM GMT

Nokia rejoins WiMax Forum

Nokia rejoins WiMax Forum 06/18/2004 08:05 AM
Computer Weekly Jun 18 2004 11:06AM GMT

Major Operators Join WiMax Forum

Major Operators Join WiMax Forum 04/26/2004 02:28 PM
BT, France Telecom, Qwest, Reliance, and XO have joined the WiMax Forum: Previously, AT&T and Covad were the only major operators in the forum. Having these heavy-hitters join is certainly a significant show of support, although none has yet pledged to use the technology. It will be interesting to see how these operators might use WiMax. Operators could use WiMax for backhaul on existing networks. European cellular operators already use wireless more frequently than wired options to backhaul their networks, much more so than U.S. cellular operators, said Monica Paolini, the founder of Senza Fili Consulting. However, the press release about these operators joining the forum focuses on using WiMax to offer broadband Internet to end users. That emphasis could be just wishful thinking on the part of the forum or some of the operators may have expressed sincere interest in using WiMax to serve end users....

WiMax Forum targets first systems by end
of year.

WiMax Forum targets first systems by end
of year. 01/22/2004 02:36 AM
EE Times: WiMax Forum targets first systems by end of year.

Rumours - Cisco To Join Wimax Forum

Rumours - Cisco To Join Wimax Forum 09/06/2004 09:16 AM
ewirelessnews Sep 6 2004 12:57PM GMT

Briefly: Motorola joins WiMax Forum

Briefly: Motorola joins WiMax Forum 06/22/2004 12:11 PM
roundup Plus: Microsoft names U.S. financial services chief...MusicNow shifts management...EMC updates management software.

Nortel, Possibly Cisco, Join WiMax Forum

Nortel, Possibly Cisco, Join WiMax Forum 09/07/2004 04:17 PM
Unnamed sources are saying that Cisco recently applied to join the WiMax Forum: An official Nortel press release announces that Nortel has joined the forum. Cisco might be an unwelcome addition to the forum from the perspective of existing vendors because the company tends to dominate markets. While the company has significant wireless roots in the Wi-Fi business, it hasn't historically sold radio gear to the community of operators that builds large metropolitan networks. So it would be interesting to see how Cisco's presence might alter the WiMax market. But I'll reserve further comment until Cisco's WiMax Forum membership is confirmed or denied....

Nokia rejoins WiMax forum a month after
it quit

Nokia rejoins WiMax forum a month after
it quit 06/17/2004 09:58 AM
Nokia Corp. has said it is rejoining the WiMax Forum just a month after the company purposely allowed its membership in the organization to lapse.

Cisco, Nortel, Lucent Join WiMAX Forum

Cisco, Nortel, Lucent Join WiMAX Forum 09/17/2004 06:26 AM
IEEE 802.16 continues to gain momentum as more high profile members sign on with the WiMAX Forum.

Intel Developer Forum - Rosedale chips
fuel Intel's WiMax drive

Intel Developer Forum - Rosedale chips
fuel Intel's WiMax drive 09/08/2004 12:35 PM
Computer Weekly Sep 8 2004 4:24PM GMT

Alvarion Says Pre-WiMax Means WiMax
Commitment

Alvarion Says Pre-WiMax Means WiMax
Commitment 06/18/2004 03:58 PM
Alvarion VP says that the company's new platform is ready for WiMax, backed by their promise to upgrade it: A few weeks ago, I wrote about Alvarion's BreezeMax platform and took the company to task for not spelling out precisely what they were promising customers when saying that BreezeMax was their WiMax platform. WiMax hasn't reached a final certification stage yet for equipment that complies to IEEE 802.16a: broadband wireless point-to-point service in the 2 GHz to 11 GHz range for licensed and unlicensed bands. That certification standard might not be ready until 2005; likewise, chips designed for it could be that far ahead, too. I wrote in May that Alvarion should have said We're not selling WiMax equipment, but something we believe we be so close to it that only firmware upgrades are required. I also wrote, Interestingly, while they say futureproofed on one page, they don't mention whether purchasers would receive free hardware upgrades if the WiMax standard as deployed is too different to allow firmware changes to this equipment. Alvarion wanted to clarify what they meant, and I spoke today with Carlton O'Neal, the vice president of marketing for the company. I asked O'Neal if Alvarion is guaranteeing its customers--as a few other firms have apparently done in a limited way--that BreezeMax would be a zero-cost WiMax upgrade when the final standard was available. He said it would. O'Neal said that the company had built the platform to allow software upgrades, firmware upgrades, and hardware upgrades. They believe that with the current state of the WiMax standard they can entirely rely on software and firmware to handle full WiMax certification: "Our hope, our plan, is that it's software and firmware," he said. Their last resort would be hardware, but "we're prepared to do that." Alvarion has been developing the BreezeMax system for three years, and decided that given the state of WiMax and their own readiness, they needed to bring the carrier-grade equipment into the marketplace with a commitment to make this their flagship WiMax platform even though the standard is still under development. What they deploy today works, and some of their customers may choose to stick with it far past when interoperable WiMax hardware and their own upgrades are available. Alvarion will eventually rely on chips built by Intel to power their WiMax gear, and Intel's circuits aren't due until 2005 at this point. But...

Expert forum for knowledge presentation:
Resources for communication & Forum for
discussion, planning, and collaboration

Expert forum for knowledge presentation:
Resources for communication & Forum for
discussion, planning, and collaboration 12/04/2003 07:14 AM

Forum Systems Previews Forum XWall(TM)
3.0 Data-Level Networking for The
XML-Internet at NetWorld + Interop

Forum Systems Previews Forum XWall(TM)
3.0 Data-Level Networking for The
XML-Internet at NetWorld + Interop 05/10/2004 02:46 PM
XMLMania.com May 10 2004 6:43PM GMT

Member Forum Spotlight: Photography
Forum

Member Forum Spotlight: Photography
Forum 02/05/2005 10:11 PM
dmullins's Member Forum is a "place for photographers young and old to explore their craft or hobby. To analyze technique, equipment, backgrounds, traditions, effects, explorations, war stories, failures, perceptions, and whatever the creative photographers of the world can come up with." Check it out!

WiMax

WiMax 04/18/2005 07:55 AM

Wireless Internet access about to go extra 5 miles: We had WiMax-like service here in Sioux Falls as a test market for Monet Mobile. You could surf the Web from a laptop in the back seat of your car driving down the interstate.

Sadly, it looks like Monet was a bit ahead of their time. If they had only made it one more year, they'd have hit the coming WiMax craze.

WiMax is essentially high-powered Wi-Fi, the kind of wireless Internet now common in coffee shops. Wi-Fi's range is much shorter, usually enough to cover only one or two buildings.

[...] Intel is working on a future chip that will go into laptops allowing them to hop onto a WiMax network anywhere there's a signal. WiMax may also incorporate Internet phone-calling technology, turning it into a land-line and cellular-like phone service.

And here's a benefit we've talked about before: less stuff.

[...] there's a good chance WiMax will be a hit, especially because it saves carriers the trouble of laying cable.

A tsunami can't break a WiMax connection, provide the sending and receiving points are intact, right?

WiMax: Where and When

WiMax: Where and When 07/12/2004 05:22 PM
Parks Associates senior analyst Michael Cai's recent report on fixed broadband wireless technology may offer a more realistic view of the future than that painted by some vendors: He studied developed and developing countries around the globe and while he found that each region is on a slightly different path, he doesn't expect to see volume commercial deployments of WiMax until 2006. Those deployments will be mainly in Europe and Asia. That timeframe is slightly behind the second half of 2005 timeframe that the WiMax Forum and some vendors are hoping for. While the standardization process is on schedule, the processes for certification and interoperability are likely to slow down progress. "Who knows where conflicts emerge as they go down the process," Cai said. Even if commercial products come out in the second half of 2005 on schedule, carriers will likely want to test products for three to six months before rolling out a commercial network, he said. Cai doesn't expect large scale demand for WiMax networks in the United States until 2008 or 2009, though he cautions that there are so many uncertainties here that it's difficult to predict. The deployment of WiMax here may depend on changes the FCC may make to its spectrum policy for the 2.5 Ghz bands. But in the meantime, Cai expects existing wireless ISPs to migrate to WiMax using the unlicensed bands. "All they care about is cost," he said. Such operators don't have the resources to test equipment or support trials so they're interested in standards-based products that essentially guarantee good performance. Cai also has some interesting theories on which areas of the world will have the most WiMax users in the near future. While many observers suggest that the developing nations that don't yet have strong telecom infrastructure will make up the largest markets for WiMax, Cai says that developed markets will at least initially account for the highest number of subscribers. "Even if [WiMax reaches] 20 percent of the underserved market in the U.S., that's way larger than the total market in a lot of developing markets," he said. He believes that over the next few years, most of the developing countries will continue to lack demand, lack PC penetration, and lack the disposable income to support WiMax. "At least until 2009, we'll probably have more WiMax subscribers in the underserved markets in the developed countries compared to emerging markets...

Pre-WiMax at 100 mph

Pre-WiMax at 100 mph 04/13/2005 08:12 PM
The Brighton Express uses pre-WiMax gear to achieve 60 miles of coverage at 100 mph: Peter Judge reports from the London-to-Brighton line that although coverage is yet contiguous--that's still to come--the service offers seamless performance across each base station zone by relying Wi-Fi in the carriages to WiMax base stations along the route. T-Mobile is involved in this unwiring--which was carried out by Nomad Digital--and is offering the service at no charge while they tune the system. The estimate is that the 37 802.11d-based Redline devices will need to be increased to 60, or a density of about one per mile, to provide complete coverage. The limit on speed right now is the ADSL backhaul of 2 Mbps per base station. The service switches to GPRS when out of range of WiMax bonding three GPRS devices. Only one train out of 15 is equipped so far. T-Mobile will charge £5 per hour or £13 per day for service starting in June....

WiMax From WalMart?

WiMax From WalMart? 08/10/2004 03:53 AM
Over at the Institute for the Future, they're wondering if WalMart might end up getting into the broadband business by hooking up WiMax base stations (once such equipment is actually available) on all their stores, covering much of the US in broadband. It's an interesting theory, and gets the attention of those who think that telecoms are a dying breed. Of course, it's really not that easy. Over at TheFeature, I've written up a longer piece looking at some of the challenges a company like WalMart might face in offering broadband services. However, it's certainly not impossible to count them out. After all, who thought Starbucks would be in the internet access business in the first place? If you take that to a larger scale, perhaps Walmart could get into the WiMax business as well. A more interesting question, however, may be how the world is going to look when there are plenty of "virtual" network operators, where one company offers up their brand for others to put on a network. Virgin has built up quite a set of businesses doing this, and in the mobile space, MVNOs are a hot topic. However, could companies do this for just about any kind of telecom/broadband offering... and more to the point, is there a real benefit in doing so? It's cool for a big brand name company to think they can suddenly get into a technology services business just by licensing out their brand name, but won't there be some risks (a la AT&T' s annoyance with AT&T Wireless' trampling of the brand) and some questions about just why you want to buy your internet service from Coca-Cola?

4g To Be Combination Of 3g And Wimax

4g To Be Combination Of 3g And Wimax 06/14/2004 06:00 PM
ewirelessnews Jun 14 2004 9:50PM GMT

WiMax in the wings

WiMax in the wings 06/25/2004 07:06 PM
CNET Jun 25 2004 11:41PM GMT

Then There's UWB, WiMax, wOzNet

Then There's UWB, WiMax, wOzNet 02/19/2004 08:41 AM
Business Week Feb 19 2004 1:27PM GMT

TI Doubts WiMax

TI Doubts WiMax 09/21/2004 06:29 PM
TI, which is not heavily into WiMax like its competitor Intel, says WiMax won't be very effective at bringing broadband to the home: It's true that it's far from certain that WiMax will be anywhere near the success that Intel promises, but most of the reasons TI gives here are pretty weak. Because China hasn't jumped on the bandwagon and because broadband wireless standards have failed in the past doesn't prove that WiMax will fail. If WiMax products have a lower price tag and are more robust than previous attempts at broadband wireless, the technology has a chance of success. WiMax can be far easier to deploy than most wireline technologies and appears to offer a good alternative to wireline especially in developing regions of the world. But there are plenty of reasons that WiMax could fail, which aren't mentioned by the TI executive. In the United States only a few spectrum holders own the licenses that would be ideal for a WiMax deployment and it's not clear that they're interested in the technology. One of those companies, Nextel, has expressed interest in using other proprietary technologies in the spectrum. Other large operators that don't own such prime spectrum are unlikely to want to execute a major deployment in unlicensed frequencies. The TI executive suggests that a portable or mobile version of WiMax might have a better chance of success. While future iterations of WiMax may sound more promising than the initial fixed version, it's very difficult to know today what the market will look like by the time a mobile or portable solution becomes available. By then, other technologies may have leapfrogged WiMax. It's also not clear that WiMax will indeed result in low-cost equipment for operators. Some wireless ISPs have said that vendors they've spoken to have said that the first couple generations of their base stations won't be interoperable with clients from any vendor. That lack of interoperability may not be very attractive for many operators and may prohibit prices from dropping. Ultimately, there are plenty of forces working against WiMax but much of what the TI executive says here sounds to me like sour grapes....

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