Mobile WiMax

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Mobile WiMax

There’s good reason to get excited about Mobile WiMAX

 

[NihilimSA]

We will get excited if there were more than a few square cm covered by WiMax in SA because here your on the go connection will be out of coverage range as soon as you take a step in any direction.

But if this means we will see better coverage it could prove useful.

 

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Doesn't Alvarion supply Telkom's WiMAX? What's so exciting?

 

[lroachl]

I rely don't understand why Wimax is going to be the next revolution, other than point to point for companies, Wimax is not that great with mass connections.

If you intrested on reading up on it
http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/mobile/wimax.html

 

[Lord-Nikon]

WiMax is the next best thing because it is a wireless connection with the same latencies as those of ADSL. If you compare that to 3G/HSDPA's latencies, WiMax is definitely the next best thing! It is a more reliable, always on wireless connection. Sure 3G/HSDPA is a lot faster, but it is not more reliable, and the latencies are a killer!

Hopefully the coverage will be improved as the Mobile WiMax comes out, otherwise it won't be that mobile...

 

[chubster]

I rely don't understand why Wimax is going to be the next revolution, other than point to point for companies, Wimax is not that great with mass connections.

If you intrested on reading up on it
http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/mobile/wimax.html

wow very insightful.

 

[WHATEVER]

... latencies are a killer ...

Only if you a gamer really ... and gamers are only a very small portion of the SA broardband usage ...

 

[Roman4604]

I rely don't understand why Wimax is going to be the next revolution

The promise has always been that WiMAX's principal backer Intel, would at some stage in the future be ensuring a good percentage of med to high end laptops being shipped would have WiMAX built-in, which would make it hard for network operators to ignore. We'll have to see if this happens, the WiMAX capable Centrino chipset is being released about now.

Wimax is not that great with mass connections.

The article is quite outdated as it only talks about 802.16d WiMAX (so called fixed), 802.16e (so called mobile) is quite a bit more advanced and well suited to high connection densities.

 

[daffy]

There are Laptops with built in WiMax chipsets. They have been through Interop testing with many WiMax vendors.
Mobile WiMax CPE's are becoming quite mature now too.

I have on my desk, a PCMCIA card (will never make it to production, since PCMCIA is an old standard), a USB dongle, and a Desktop "modem" with a 4-port switch, and 2 ATA ports for phones.
They've all been tested with 4 different vendors, and they work well.

Mobile WiMax is like the GSM of data networks...
I can buy a Mobile WiMax device here, and take it abroad to another Mobile WiMax provider, and it'll "just work". I'll get billed at home, and if the provider does it properly, You'll even have the same IP on the foreign network (Mobile-IP is a big part of the WiMax standard)

There is so much more to Mobile WiMax than most users will ever know, but the Providers are drooling over it...