p2pnet - rss feed: Exit WiFi, enter WiMax: Intel
p2pnet.net News:- Intel believes WiMax is the path for the future, and it’s backing that with the Intel PRO/Wireless 5116 chipset, formerly Rosedale.
This will mean outdoor WiMax (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) products as well as new indoor solutions, such as self-installable WiMAX modems and residential gateways, it says.
The ’system-on-chip’ will be used for a wireless broadband connection of up to several miles, “further than WiFi’s current range of a few hundred feet,” says Computer Business. “WiMax may transmit data at a speed of up to 70Mbps for a distance of 37 miles or more.”
"Wherever you see WiFi today we envision seeing WiMax tomorrow," Scott Richardson, general manager of Intel’s broadband wireless solutions division, is quoted as saying in Vnunet.com.
"The Intel PRO/Wireless 5116 broadband interface is the first 802.16-2004 system-on-chip optimized for cost-effective WiMAX modems and residential gateways," says Intel. "These units may be placed in either homes or businesses to receive and transmit a wireless broadband signal."
Typical deployment speeds will be between 1 and 10Mbps, Vnunet has Jonathon Pagget, coo of Airspan saying, "But he added that spectrum allocation was critical to the WiMax market.
"The availability of the right kind of spectrum could have serious implications for the roll out of services. Richardson said that governments were allocating large chunks of spectrum, but at relatively high frequencies, mainly 2.5 and 3.5GHz.
"This would mean the signal would have difficulty penetrating buildings and would lose strength more quickly. Worldwide the most common spectrum allocated will be between 3.4-6GHz, but in the United States Richardson said there were moves afoot to allocate the 700 MHz spectrum to WiMax."
Chipzilla says "several" service providers will begin commercial WiMAX trials based on Intel silicon products later this year.
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See:-
WiMax - Intel Introduces New WiMAX Silicon Solution to Expand the Reach of Broadband Internet Access, April 18, 2005
Computer Business - Intel makes WiMax debut, April 19, 2005
Vnunet.com - Intel plans to replace WiFi with WiMax, April 19, 2005
April 19th, 2005 at 1:32 pm
If this takes off and the price is cheap enough, bye bye cartel ISP’s
April 19th, 2005 at 2:12 pm
Only if the bought and paid off FCC allows it. Believe it not, some states are trying to outlaw towns from setting up their own city wide wireless networks. Apparently some broadband companies are throwing their money around, trying to protect their business’ with state law.
April 19th, 2005 at 3:05 pm
Intel is going to try to push WiMAX as a replacement for WiFi. This is NOT good.
WiFi does not require a license. WiMAX does.
You want to run a WiFI base station no problem.
Pay your x amount of money to buy a base station, connect it
to your network and you have connectivity.
WiMAX on the other hand Pay more x amount of money for a base
station and then start paying on a monthly basis to somebody who will let you use their license for your home network.
There are places for WiMAX, like locations which can not get DSL in suburban/Rural locations. For urban locations hopefully WiFI will still be around.
WiMAX reinforces the hold of large providers.
April 19th, 2005 at 3:05 pm
More fud and spin from intel. WiMax:-
- No standard - Yet
- No silicon (that meets the missing standard) - Yet
- No spectrum - Yet
Without all that, tales of 70Mbps over 37 miles are pure pipedream. And they’re also not being entirely honest about whether this is point to point or roaming.
It may well be an important standard that ends up being complimentary to WiFi. But until you can buy a card for your laptop or an access point from your favourite supplier at < $100 you can ignore it. Remember 802.11a ?
April 19th, 2005 at 4:11 pm
If I have to import it, I will. Yes, state polititions are protecting their patron cartels, but customers can set up their own networks if their local governments cannot. Besides, I don’t believe that providing Internet connectivity is a government responsibility. It should be done by the people.
April 19th, 2005 at 4:14 pm
Form a coopertive and get your own licence (if you want a licence). I don’t want one. I just want a directional antenna. If I don’t want to risk government persecution for not having a licence, then i will continue with wifi.
April 19th, 2005 at 5:31 pm
fuck licences, it shouldn’t require a license to run a wireless network…