{"id":548237,"date":"2006-03-15T06:26:24","date_gmt":"2006-03-15T06:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548237-iburst-has-a-strong-future-dr-martin-cooper.html"},"modified":"2006-03-15T06:26:24","modified_gmt":"2006-03-15T06:26:24","slug":"iburst-has-a-strong-future-dr-martin-cooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548237-iburst-has-a-strong-future-dr-martin-cooper.html","title":{"rendered":"\u2018iBurst has a strong future\u2019: Dr. Martin Cooper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">In an interview with MyADSL Dr. Cooper said that iBurst has no real competitors operating at 5 MHz spectrum, and that its smart antenna technology makes it stand out as a very effective connectivity technology.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Dr. Cooper pointed out that although his company Arraycom has put its weight behind WiMax, it in no way means that they are no longer supporting the iBurst technology. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cAs long as there is a demand for the technology Arraycom will support and be involved in the development of it,\u201d he said.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">He pointed to the fact that the iBurst technology has been adopted by the IEEE 802.20 working group and that it is a well supported and respected standard.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">When asked about WiMax\u2019s prospects he said that it is certainly a great technology with many strengths, including smart antenna technology, but that it is unlikely that we will see true WiMax antennas and base stations within two years.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Intel\u2019s recent announcement that they will have a PCMCIA WiMax card available in the second part of this year is therefore not as significant as it may seem, according to Dr. Cooper.<\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Martin Cooper, Arraycom Chairman and widely credited as the inventor of the cellphone, said that there is no question that the iBurst technology is a safe bet for at least the next five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}