Mobile WiMAX: ’The possibilities are endless’
Rick Rogers, director, Alvarion, says Mobile WiMAX brings the promise of personalised broadband in real time, at home or on the go, any time anywhere.
Mobile WiMAX offers continuous connectivity using many types of mobile consumer devices allowing you to get the most out of work or play, taking your broadband connections mobile or making your mobile service broadband, he adds. This merge means that you can greatly enhance your lifestyle by getting mobilised with personal broadband services, he continues.
"Wi-Fi hotspots are few and far between, which essentially means that your notebook has to connect to one after the other to keep the Internet connection going. In between the hotspots there are vast expanses of dead air where your notebook is unconnected. WiMAX will make these dead spots come alive with the crackle of broadband Internet access!"
"WiMAX transmits broadband Internet connectivity for kilometres, reaching into more of the places where we live, work, and play. These are just some of the possibilities with broadband-on-the-go enabled by WiMAX:
* Video conferencing from the swimming gala.
* Looking up the closest book store or getting directions to a restaurant while on the move.
* Downloading movies while at the soccer field.
* Staying productive on the road without searching for hotspots."
Rogers says that WiMAX has the potential to do to broadband Internet access what cellphones have done to phone access. In the same way that many people have given up their land lines in favour of cellphones, WiMAX could replace cable and DSL services, providing universal Internet access just about anywhere you go, he adds. It aims to combine the familiarity of Wi-Fi with the mobility of cellular that will deliver personal mobile broadband that moves with you.
"Think of WiMAX as taking the best part of cellular network access – the part that allows you to easily connect anywhere within your service provider’s wide coverage area and taking the best part of your Wi-Fi experience – the fast speeds and a familiar broadband Internet experience, and combining them into a new wireless standard. Anything you could imagine doing in your office or on a bulky Internet connection at home you are going to be able to do on the go. WiMAX is truly like mobile Internet in your pocket," he concludes.
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