Moebius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 6/21/04 at 4:33 PM wrote:

>Also the Current Breezemax equipment doesn't use the Intel chipset.. You
>don't have to do business with intel to be part of the WiMax community. 

That's part of the subtext here, surely. The Alvarion folks were waiting for Intel to 
pony up the WiMax chipset, and it's delayed until 2005. Intel can hardly carp about 
Alvarion selling equipment that Alvarion is committing to -- contractually, based on 
what I've heard -- to upgrade to WiMax certified standards no matter what it takes 
even if Intel wants to believe they control the WiMax mark, which they don't.

I'll be curious whether the WiMax group actually issues standards for pre-WiMax 
labeling. Will they say "no, not at all, can't say, have to say 802.16a or nothing 
else" or will they allow claims if the company's put in writing a commitment to 
upgrade all software, firmware, and hardware (as necessary) to WiMax when it ships?
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Glenn Fleishman
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