To those who don't quite grasp WiFi -- make way for WiMax

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Bluetooth and WiFi, meet WiMax
technology

Bluetooth and WiFi, meet WiMax
technology 04/07/2005 05:24 AM
globetechnology.com Apr 7 2005 9:41AM GMT

WiMax starting to make its move

WiMax starting to make its move 06/16/2004 03:07 PM
With phones and LANs steadily going wireless and consumer electronics not far behind, one part of the networked world - broadband to the home or business - has stubbornly remained wired in most cases.

T-Systems Aims to Make WiFi as Easy as
Phone Call

T-Systems Aims to Make WiFi as Easy as
Phone Call 07/06/2004 11:27 AM
Boston Globe Jul 6 2004 3:19PM GMT

T-Systems Aims to Make WiFi as Easy as
Phone Call (Reuters)

T-Systems Aims to Make WiFi as Easy as
Phone Call (Reuters) 07/06/2004 06:34 AM
Reuters - T-Systems, a unit Deutsche Telekom, is linking together 10,000 locations for wireless computer access and aims to connect half of the world's public hotspots to a seamless network, it said on Tuesday.

Research and Markets: Fixed Wireless,
WiMax, and WiFi Markets at $2.4 billion
in 2004 are Anticipated to Reach $12.4
Billion by 2010

Research and Markets: Fixed Wireless,
WiMax, and WiFi Markets at $2.4 billion
in 2004 are Anticipated to Reach $12.4
Billion by 2010 03/31/2005 03:03 AM
Research and Markets (researchandmarkets.com/reports/c14679) has announced the addition of Fixed Wireless, WiMax, and WiFi Market Opportunities, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2005 to 2010 to their offering. [PRWEB Mar 31, 2005]

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...

GRASP

GRASP 12/07/2003 07:10 AM
GRASP-R 0.4-1 released

Grasp of DNA statistics needed

Grasp of DNA statistics needed 02/19/2004 02:37 AM
Washington Times Feb 19 2004 6:41AM GMT

Free open WiFi on Tacoma-Washington
train, courtesy WiFi hacker

Free open WiFi on Tacoma-Washington
train, courtesy WiFi hacker 03/24/2005 08:15 PM
Cory Doctorow: A Seattle wireless hacker rides a commuter train from Tacoma every day with a battery-powered WiFi hotspot in his backpack that's linked up to the Internet with a 14.4 144k wireless modem. Catch his train and get free WiFi on your commute.

The open wireless node can be found in the first car of the last morning train and in Car 403 on the 5:10pm return trip. Use SSID "FreeInternetAccess" or "seattlewireless" to connect - You may have to assign yourself an IP in the range 192.168.0.0/24 and use the Default Gateway 192.168.0.1 as the DHCP is sometimes flakey

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U.S. Strives to Grasp Terror Plot's
Scope (AP)

U.S. Strives to Grasp Terror Plot's
Scope (AP) 08/04/2004 02:58 AM
AP - The government is no closer to understanding some important details about possible terror plots against American financial institutions, intelligence and law enforcement officials acknowledge.

Contestants braced to grasp the nettle
-- and eat it (Reuters)

Contestants braced to grasp the nettle
-- and eat it (Reuters) 06/17/2005 05:05 PM
Reuters - A handful of hardy souls will descend on a quiet village this weekend to stuff their mouths full of stinging nettles in a bizarre competition which started as an argument in a pub.

U.S. Is Tightening Grasp on Rebels
Encircled in Iraq

U.S. Is Tightening Grasp on Rebels
Encircled in Iraq 08/09/2004 09:48 PM
The repercussions of the fighting intensified when oil production in the south was halted after threats from guerrillas.

Hermosa Beach, California Launches Free
Citywide WiFi Service using advanced
WiFi-Plus obstruction penetrating
antennas.

Hermosa Beach, California Launches Free
Citywide WiFi Service using advanced
WiFi-Plus obstruction penetrating
antennas. 08/05/2004 03:39 AM
Los Angeles Beach Community WiFi service made possible by WiFi-Plus antennas. Makes internet available on the beach. [PRWEB Aug 5, 2004]

"the editors at USA Today seem to be
unable to grasp the concept of sarcasm
themselves"

"the editors at USA Today seem to be
unable to grasp the concept of sarcasm
themselves" 07/27/2004 03:02 PM

US Failed to Grasp Bin Laden Threat:
Sept 11 Panel

US Failed to Grasp Bin Laden Threat:
Sept 11 Panel 07/22/2004 02:42 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jul 22 2004 6:28PM GMT

"points out an issue in race relations
that whites usually don't grasp"

"points out an issue in race relations
that whites usually don't grasp" 12/10/2003 03:08 PM

Ignorance Hurts: Many Businesses Don't
Grasp Search Engine Marketing

Ignorance Hurts: Many Businesses Don't
Grasp Search Engine Marketing 04/14/2005 12:29 PM
New white paper explains how to make the most of the high-growth industry [PRWEB Apr 14, 2005]

Putin Issues Plan to Tighten Grasp,
Citing Terrorism

Putin Issues Plan to Tighten Grasp,
Citing Terrorism 09/13/2004 09:41 PM
The proposals would strengthen Vladimir V. Putin's already pervasive control over the legislative branch and regional governments.

Ignorance Hurts: Many Businesses Don’t
Grasp Search Engine Marketing

Ignorance Hurts: Many Businesses Don’t
Grasp Search Engine Marketing 04/14/2005 02:11 AM
New white paper explains how to make the most of the high-growth industry [PRWEB Apr 14, 2005]

Slow-Motion Miracle: One Boy's Journey
Out of Autism's Grasp

Slow-Motion Miracle: One Boy's Journey
Out of Autism's Grasp 12/28/2004 10:52 PM
An 8-year-old boy's continuing journey to break free of the grip of autism reflects a struggle that more than 150,000 American children have faced in the past decade.

Review: WiFi Seeker / WiFi Spy

Review: WiFi Seeker / WiFi Spy 07/16/2004 04:50 PM
A few weeks ago I got Chrisalis Developemnt's WiFi Seeker, a convenient keychain-sized wireless network locator. Marware's recently announced WiFi Spy is a rebranded version of the same device, so it should perform identically.

To locate a wireless network simply press the button and watch the LEDs. When the lights stop sweeping back and forth, the number that remain lit will show the strength of the wireless signal. If the lights continue to sweep back and forth, you're not in range for any wireless network. Unlike other devices, the WiFi Seeker isn't fooled by other 2.5 GHz signals like microwave ovens or cordless phones, and it doesn't depend on 802.11 client activity to detect the access point. It detects both 802.11b and 802.11g.

George Will takes one last desperate
grasp at being some kind of person of
some kind of respect

George Will takes one last desperate
grasp at being some kind of person of
some kind of respect 12/27/2003 04:08 PM
Twenty years of declining standards .. Joe Conason's Journal .. lying hypocrite

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"MAKE: Blog: MAKE:DIYcast- our new
audio/podcast experiment!"

"MAKE: Blog: MAKE:DIYcast- our new
audio/podcast experiment!" 04/19/2005 08:36 AM

Trying to make Web services make sense

Trying to make Web services make sense 06/22/2004 07:29 AM
Multiple standards muddy the waters and keep customers from taking the Web services plunge.

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

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?

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

WiMax take up could eclipse Wi-Fi

WiMax take up could eclipse Wi-Fi 09/24/2004 12:05 PM
Computer Weekly Sep 24 2004 3:09PM GMT

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?

Intel Has Its Eye on WiMax. But Why?

Intel Has Its Eye on WiMax. But Why? 07/13/2004 05:18 PM
eWeek Jul 13 2004 9:30PM GMT

Report: WiMax won't take off soon

Report: WiMax won't take off soon 07/09/2004 03:04 PM
Much-hyped broadband wireless technology won't break big for another five years, analysts say.

WiMax Gets Real

WiMax Gets Real 06/21/2004 12:05 PM
Intel, Proxim development plans aid protocol's credibility.

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: Coming your way soon?

WiMax: Coming your way soon? 08/17/2004 10:55 PM

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....

LG looks at WiMax--and U.S. culture

LG looks at WiMax--and U.S. culture 03/14/2005 04:30 PM
Korean company teams with Nortel on emerging wireless standard, and opens a research center to study American culture.

WiMAX, 3G Could Collide

WiMAX, 3G Could Collide 03/22/2005 07:29 PM
Extreme Tech Mar 22 2005 9:03PM GMT

Intel's WiMax on way

Intel's WiMax on way 09/08/2004 10:27 AM
Deccan Herald Sep 8 2004 1:41PM GMT
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