Article: WiMax: When, Not If

[hArTh]

http://slashdot.org/articles/04/10/06/0146238.shtml?tid=193&tid=118&tid=95&tid=1

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[hArTh]

OK which forumite is this ... own up [:D]

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=124538&cid=10448222


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[hArTh]

http://www.wimaxforum.org/news/press_releases/Telephony_WiMAX.pdf

3 km <i><b>NON</b></i>-LOS

Telkom had better be worried ... mesh networks here we come.

John will be pleased [:D]

Like I've always said ... if Joe Average can turn on his PC and get a 2+ KM omni range with a vanilla wifi card, mesh networking is going to explode.

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[martin]

Nice link harth. Hope we see this soon!

[hArTh]

I suspect telkom will be declaring wimax cards WMDs and banning their importation (like they tried with wireless ap's).

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[Andre]

See

http://www.myadsl.co.za/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4857&SearchTerms=wimax,telkom

[Chris]

I also hope we see this exciting technology very soon.

Counting down...
123 days till the end of Hellkom

[georgelza]

Makes for some interesting security senarios, think about it, you have WiMax card in laptop. sitting in offic complex, now the network admin got to keep in mind that his network might be hacked from the building next door by a person entering his network through an unsecured Wimax card on te MD's laptop because the MD son played on the laptop the previous night,

dont make a msitake, would love to have this technology become available, just the sys admin side in me seeing some interesting scenarios imerging.

G

You Have The Obligation to Inform One Honestly of the risk, And As a Person
You Are Committed to Educate Yourself to the Total Risk In Any Activity!
Once Informed & Totally Aware of the Risk,
Every Fool Has the Right to Kill or Injure Themselves as They See Fit!

[Spamtheman]

Not really, we already run wireless networks in our offices, they're not that tricky to secure.

[georgelza]

Spam, i know about securing it, i am wondering about the owner or or family opening it up for a purpose at home and not skilled or clever enough to close it again,

is there ways/processes you monitor on a continues basis to pick up changes/open points.

G

You Have The Obligation to Inform One Honestly of the risk, And As a Person
You Are Committed to Educate Yourself to the Total Risk In Any Activity!
Once Informed & Totally Aware of the Risk,
Every Fool Has the Right to Kill or Injure Themselves as They See Fit!

[Spamtheman]

Easiest way to secure them is to encrypt the transmissions and block access via mac address. And you did say a sysadmin problem :)

[Strobemeister]

And how stable r they Spam? A few of our subscribers have them, and of course also go online the same way, from a central point in the office. Trouble is, our online facilities are secure sites, so each "glitch" results in an "expiry" and they have to log on again. Quite a few of them have called me about this.


Telkom - South Africa's Handbrake to progress.

[mithrandi]

Mesh networks are all very well for doing a little web surfing, e-mail, or something; anything requiring decent bandwidth / latency, though, is a different story.

<hr noshade size="1">mithrandi, i Ainil en-Balandor, a faer Ambar

[Spamtheman]

erm no, there is nothing intrisnically dodgy about wireless connections, just the people setting them up.

[dbnnet]

Last week I had the opportunity to listen to Intel's
President and Chief Operating Officer, Paul S. Otellini
at a function overseas.
If he left one important message for the future of Intel
it was WIMAX WIMAX WIMAX!!
These guys are serious and intend embedding WiMax technology
into future Notebook and PC chipsets.
They are aiming to own the Desktop AND the Network (Just look at their current WiMax partnership with Telkom).
They also predict the demise of ADSL as newer and cheaper
embedded technologies (WiMax) will make ADSL obsolete.