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Please be aware the Alvarion equipment is NOT WiMAX as they hase not had their equipment certified. Only some TDD vendors like Redline Communications have WiMAX certification.
 
The whole WiMax certification thing is a cock up anyways ....
It wont be until 2007 / 2008 until FULL compatability is seen - thats best case. No one is currently rolling out WiMax networks. Pre WiMax has bit some operators in the ass.
 
Chaz said:
No one is currently rolling out WiMax networks. Pre WiMax has bit some operators in the ass.
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Agree with that ... not sure why there is some much interest in WiMax currently. Even once ratified, 802.16e has no techological 'silver bullet' that makes it vastly superior to any other (even proprietary) broadband wireless technology avaliable now or in the future.

WiMAX's true value lies in it being a globally accepted & widely shipped standard. Just like WiFi, WiMAX will only truely 'happen' if & when it is incorporated into some future Intel Centrino spec. and when this spec/chipset is shipping in any noticable volume worldwide.

Only once a certain critcal mass point is achieved, where a sizeble enough number of CPE devices are in circulation, will the network providers be incentivised to roll out 'wide converage' WiMAX networks. But Intel & co. better hurry up as there going to have stiff competition from the cellular providers who will probably be rolling out 2nd gen HSDPA technology during the same timeframe.

Going to be interesting to see who gets it right.
 
Roman4604 said:
Agree with that ... not sure why there is some much interest in WiMax currently. Even once ratified, 802.16e has no techological 'silver bullet' that makes it vastly superior to any other (even proprietary) broadband wireless technology avaliable now or in the future.

WiMAX's true value lies in it being a globally accepted & widely shipped standard. Just like WiFi, WiMAX will only truely 'happen' if & when it is incorporated into some future Intel Centrino spec. and when this spec/chipset is shipping in any noticable volume worldwide.

Only once a certain critcal mass point is achieved, where a sizeble enough number of CPE devices are in circulation, will the network providers be incentivised to roll out 'wide converage' WiMAX networks. But Intel & co. better hurry up as there going to have stiff competition from the cellular providers who will probably be rolling out 2nd gen HSDPA technology during the same timeframe.

Going to be interesting to see who gets it right.
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Agree. Its currently a stand off between large WISP's and Intel. Their chipset is worthless if ISPs do not deploy base stations that support these chipsets.

You then have to look at frequencies, what has been ratified, what is available in which countries, blah blah. Many operators in Europe are rolling out WiMax (Pre WiMax thus far) in 3.5GHz ... perhaps there the Centrino type replacement would cater for 3.5GHz, then again, what about the 2.4 / 5.8GHz WiMax plans? Perhaps chips that support two or more frequencies are possible ..... its a time/money thing. I cant see it becoming as 'standard' as 802.11b has become.
 
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