I believe the 802.16a standard is complete.. i.e. 3.5Ghz 802.16a silicon is shipping.. You can buy the Redline AN-100 and Alvarion BreezeMax systems in Europe.. so 802.16a is shipping, its just not the Intel chipset that is shipping, and of course the US hasn't allowed the 3.5Ghz band yet that the current silicon is built for so nobody has access to it here..
I would guess its not WiMax certified because they haven't done the lab shootout of different vendors equipment yet and are waiting for the intel chipset to do this.. -----Original Message----- From: Glenn Fleishman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 4:38 PM To: Moebius Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [BAWUG] Re: WiMAx and BreezeMax 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? -- Glenn Fleishman seattle . washington unsolicited pundit . glennf.com columnist . seattletimes.com/practicalmac daily wireless networking news . wifinetnews.com _______________________________________________ BAWUG's general wireless chat mailing list [unsubscribe] http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
