Wimax delayed yet again

[Darth Garth]

The first batch of WiMax equipment testing is now not scheduled to start until October, a move that could push back the availability of official product from late this year into 2006.

http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=79228&WT.svl=news1_4

 

[Roman4604]

Technical Arraycomm/Kyocera's iBurst, Flarion's Flash OFDM & Navini's Ripwave deliver today what WiMax (mobile 802.16e) promises tomorrow.

Like with WiFi, the true catalyst for the rapid adoption of WiMax will be when every second laptop sold includes a WiMax adapter as standard (i.e. next gen Intel Centrino spec).

 

[CyberMunky]

I was just wondering, if when or ever we will get this tech in SA.

 

[Roman4604]

I think true standardised & inter-operable WiMax will only be avaliable in the 2007 timeframe. If you want something now that works similar to WiMax, can try either WBS iBurst or Sentech myWireless.

Both are proprietary and will not be upgradable to WiMax (802.16d/e) in the future as they are based on or aligned to different standards ...

iBurst -> 802.20
myWireless -> modifed 3G.

 

[dbnnet]

Both are proprietary ......

Not True:
MyWireless is using the ratified 3G UMTS TDD standard.
IPWireless specifically chose this route as they did not want to undergo a huge R&D spend.
This as most of the ground work had already been done!

 

[Roman4604]

My meaning was that they were proprietary to WiMax ... which will be the defacto broadband wireless standard in the future. Besides Intel, virtually every vendor whose anyone in the wireless broadband space (including the 3 in my previous post) is throwing their lot behind WiMax ... just a question of time.

 

[dbnnet]

You are obviously new to the Datacoms field
The "information highway" is literally paved with technologies that never made it to maturity.
(Seen a Corporate ATM backbone lately ?)

Wait before counting your chickens ..... as they have not hatched yet!
By the time WiMax 802.16e is ratified ..... GigaBit Wireless will be here

...and if you think Intel can't fail (and YES they are a Great company): Ever heard of Itanium?

 

[Roman4604]

You are obviously new to the Datacoms field

16yrs & still going strong

Wait before counting your chickens ..... as they have not hatched yet!

I agree there is no guarentee, however when I see the sheer market momentum building behind WiMax it seems pretty inevitable. Unlike ATM I believe there is a real need for wireless broadband across the world, especially developing countries.

By the time WiMax 802.16e is ratified ..... GigaBit Wireless will be here

The key word there is 'ratified'. Sure there are faster short range technologies than current WiFi, but the fact that it is standardised, vendor inter-operable & vendor competitive (i.e cheap) means that these other technologies will remain specialist & expensive. Same with WiMax, I'm sure there will be something technically better, however network operators/ISPs will back the techology that gives them the greatest market reach, profitability & end user ease-of-use (due to standardisation).

 

[dbnnet]

Remember the good old days when reporters said that WiMax was
this huge success story before it even existed? Then came the WiMax
backlash, and various delays in actually getting certification testing started.
Finally, back in July we were told that certification was really (no, really!)
starting and we could maybe expect actual, honest-to-goodness, certified
WiMax equipment by the end of the year or early next year. Except, of
course, that the company expected to be the biggest provider of equipment
didn't actually send in any equipment to be tested, and now Broadband
Reports points out that actual testing won't start until October, suggesting
that, once again, the whole concept of WiMax may have peaked way too
early. In the meantime, the companies who are really interested in WiMax
have moved on to focus on mobile WiMax equipment which isn't even
standardized yet, let alone certified. So, for all the hype around WiMax
(which often focuses on the mobile capabilities), we're still talking about
years before you're actually going to be able to use the technology to surf
the internet from anywhere, by which point there will be plenty of other
alternatives available as well.

http://techdirt.com/news/wireless

Also:

http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/story/0,10801,104071,00.html?source=x68

 

[Roman4604]

Yes I know it looks like a dog's breakfast right now ... but give it some time (12-24 mnths). The local wireless (WiFi) landscape was just as caotic before the 802.11 standards we ratified and embraced by the global equip. manufacturers/vendors.