Mike Outmesguine wrote: >Following last month's announcement <http://tinyurl.com/pbmoe> of the first >products to become WiMAX certified, the industry is all atwitter with >renewed excitement for the nascent technology. Though IEEE 802.16 is a few >years old on paper, all the building blocks are just now coming into place >for Fixed WiMAX installations to be rolled out. Plus Wired News reports ><http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,70241-0.html?tw=wn_index_2> Mobile >WiMAX could be upon us later this year. > >That said, it's time for So Cal Wireless Users to spend an evening >discussing WiMAX and what possibilities it brings to our unique mobile >environment. Jack Unger will drive this discussion with a presentation and >Q&A session on the flavors of WiMAX and where it fits in to a connected >society. > >
"fixed" wireless, using WiMax or not, is, and will continue to be, a limited market. Quite frankly, you either operate WiMax in licensed spectrum (that you have to 'buy") or you operate it in unlicensed spectrum, and have to deal with the noise floor of a million other devices all using the same spectrum. Using licensed spectrum is, essentially, uneconomic. If you're going to use unlicensed spectrum, you immediately run into The WiMax PHY has no inherent advantage over the WiFi PHY, until you decide to employ "smart antennas" or *potentially* MIMO, though on the MIMO front, its likely that the 802.11n effort will produce something nearly as good, and much more available to the "common man". The WiMax MAC has some advantages over the 802.11 MAC, but these aren't proprietary to 802.16. I've long avocated a "MadMax" architecture, using cheap, available 802.11 PHYs with an alternate, possibly quite 802.16-like MAC, using chipsets from Ralink, Atheros and others. However, all that said, there is a 'mobile' profile in 802.16 now, and that, *that*, my friends, is where the real WiMax money/action will be. Intel has plans (plus the will and money) to do no less than erect a "mobile Internet" service, ultimately replacing today's cell phones with mobile computing devices (that will also do voice). These will all, of course, have some Intel chipset content inside. Imagine Intel taking over the "cell phone" market. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SOCALWUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SOCALWUG SOCALWUG website: http://www.socalwug.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
