This technology puts an interesting twist in the mobile wireless broadband market. It is IP-based, packet-switched, with an average speed of 1.5Mb per user and spectrum agnostic. Flarion claims it costs 1/10th the cost of 3G. Flarion has made sure to get on many links in the value chain by making the routers, terminals and chipsets. It will also license the chipset.
How does this impact 802.11 market? Does this solve the mobile IP-address hand off problem? -Tamara SK Telecom Trials Flarion 10.07.02 http://www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=22173 BEDMINSTER, N.J. -- Flarion Technologies, the architect of the flash-OFDM mobile broadband system for licensed mobile operators, and SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM - message board), Korea's leading wireless telecommunications services provider, today announced that SK Telecom is the first advanced mobile operator to deploy a flash-OFDM mobile broadband trial network in Korea. The trial will test the Flarion system's robustness, performance and transparent delivery of enterprise and lifestyle applications over an end-to-end IP network infrastructure. The field trial will start in October 2002. "SK Telecom continues to lead the way with testing and deployment of new and advanced technologies in Korea," said Myung Sung Lee, chief technology officer, SK Telecom. "We are very interested in Flarion's mobile broadband technology for wireless access services and look forward to testing the system in metropolitan areas of Korea." With Flarion's flash-OFDM technology, users experience the comparable performance, security and bandwidth allocation as they would in an office on a shared Local Area Network (LAN) environment, without making any modifications to user settings, applications, protocols, content or devices. SK Telecom will deploy Flarion RadioRouterTM base stations and utilize existing towers and backhaul infrastructure. In addition, users will have Flarion's PC 1000(tm) Wireless PC Cards for their laptops and Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), so that they can experience broadband Internet access, email, and all other IP applications, with full cellular mobility. -------------------------------------- Tamara Shelton MBA, MCP Athene Partners <<marketing solutions for sustainable development and technology >> 2995 Woodside Road, Suite 400 Woodside, CA 94062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: www.athenepartners.com -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
