Category: WiMAX

Last week was the latest plugfest sponsored by the WiMax Forum, and several companies are reporting successful interoperability demonstrations with their equipment. Via [wi-fiplanet.com]

According to Intel, thirteen carriers from around the world are now deploying the world's first fixed WiMAX networks based on Intel's WiMAX technologies, delivering high-speed broadband access to businesses and residences from Germany to Guatemala. Eleven more carriers are preparing to deploy additional Intel-based WiMAX networks by year's end. Via [geekzone.co.nz]

In a sure sign that certified WiMAX wireless broadband products are close to appearing, vendors have started to tout their interoperability as proven at a "plugfest" that ended this week in Beijing. Via [informationweek.com]

The recent WiMAX World conference in Boston highlighted many key themes of the emerging market, but none more clearly than the gap between the mobile ambitions of the largest vendors and carriers, and the fixed wireless markets into which the first equipment is launching – a gap that Motorola and others are seeking to bridge...

The world's first production electric sports car will have a WiMax box inside to make it capable of online communication. Via [vnunet.com]

The coming year will be pivotal in terms of deployment of new and improved wireless broadband technologies but 3G cellular data service will dominate over the next few years, according to a market study by Northern Sky Research. Via [eetimes.com]

As two startups fighting to be heard above the big WiMax guns of Intel and Fujitsu, Sequans Communications and Wavesat Inc. this week will separately announce a chip set and a mini-PCI card reference kit designed to accelerate WiMax development and deployment. The announcements come a week after the two vendors commenced WiMax certification testing....

WiMAX is being seen in the US as both a potential 3G-killer and as a competitor to DSL. Via [electronicsweekly.com]

WiMax is one of the fastest growing emerging sectors within the world's telecoms industry, with the global market potential estimated to be worth up to $1bn in 2007 and $4bn by 2010, according to recent research from analyst firm Maravedis. Via [vnunet.com]

The costs of implementing the new wireless technology are still too steep for widespread deployment, say carriers who have WiMax trials underway--which could mean it will be a while before it's a viable option for most enterprises. Via [informationweek.com]

Motorola and Intel are teaming up to accelerate the development and adoption of a broadband technology called WiMax for mobile devices, the companies announced Thursday. Via [news.zdnet.com]

Altera Corp. has teamed up with Wi-LAN Inc. to deliver a programmable, low-cost WiMAX compliant base transceiver station modem. Via [edn.com]

The rush to deploy WiMAX gained momentum Tuesday with the announcement by Xilinx of a suite of programmable solutions designed to speed product design for the emerging wide-area wireless standard. Via [eetimes.com]

With wireless service providers and equipment manufacturers attempting to sort out the future course of mobile broadband data, some say the “right combination of 3G, WiMAX and Wi-Fi" will be needed to achieve the most success. Via [eet.com]

The next generation of wireless Internet service is a step closer with the opening of a WiMax demonstration network in Santa Clara by TeleCis Wireless Inc. Via [sanjose.bizjournals.com]