WiMax seen growing fast globally
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An emerging long-range,  high-speed wireless technology is expected to spread quickly  and be available globally within two years, a key backer of the  so-called WiMax technology said on Tuesday.
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The wireless-infrastructure leader is connected to a profitable future.
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The wireless network operator's growth looks both substantial and sustainable.
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The broadband technology WiMax has been added to a global standard for mobile devices, boosting its chances of becoming the preferred system for the next generation of high-speed wireless Internet access.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- At virtually every turn, Intel Corp. executives are heaping praise on an emerging long-range wireless technology known as WiMAX, which can blanket entire cities with high-speed Internet access.
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WiMax is winning over lots of followers while quickly gaining momentum on the standards front -- despite high-profile skeptics such as Texas Instruments, according to experts at this week's Broadband World Forum in Venice.
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c60344)  has announced the addition of Worldwide Demand for Wi-Fi/Cellular Combo  Phones to their offering.
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It&#39;s been a year since a Mobile WiMax service was launched in Seoul and one of the world&#39;s most wired cities became one of the most wireless.
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SAN FRANCISCO: At virtually every turn, Intel Corp executives are heaping praise on an emerging, long-range wireless technology known as WiMAX, which can blanket entire cities with high-speed Internet access.
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The networking firm's planned WiMax business is first-time broadband for the developing world, executives say.
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Wireless carriers already are thinking ahead to even bigger and speedier networks than the current 3G systems being deployed worldwide. A new standard called "Super 3G," supported by dozens of the world's biggest carriers, could be 10 times faster than the current fastest mobile networks.
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(InfoWorld) - Mary Chan, president of the wireless business group atÂ newly merged Alcatel-Lucent, isn't choosing sides in the prickly debate about next-generation mobile communication networks. "One thing is certain," Chan said in an interview at last week's Telecom World conference in Hong Kong. "With the next generation, we're going to see all-IP networks capable of providing voice-over-IP and high-speed data throughput." Alcatel-Lucent has a foot in both the cellular and wireless camps -- and sees opportunities for both. The company aims to be at the forefront of this convergence by offering IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) technology as "a fundamental architecture for service transformation," Chan said. The buzzword in the cellular community is LTE (Long-Term Evolution), which, as its name suggests, builds on existing cellular technology. The wireless camp supports a mobile version of WiMax, based on the IEEE 802.16e standard. Both technologies will be based on OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) and offer speeds up to 100Mbps. What could differentiate the two systems at the end of the day is not so much the technology as the type operator that favors the one or the other, according to Chan. Cellular operators view LTE as an evolution of their 3G (third-generation) mobile broadband systems and, as such, are likely to deploy the technology where they have existing infrastructure. Some may choose to use mobile WiMax to plug the holes. New Internet operators, including some of the existing Wi-Fi service providers, are expected to deploy mobile WiMax. Regardless of the radio technology, "ubiquitous coverage will be a key success factor," Chan said. That remark can be interpreted as a word of warning to numerous mobile phone operators that have pared down their 3G (third generation) rollout to save on costs and have seen Wi-Fi operators both big and small pick away at their mobile data business.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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The wireless automation technology will see explosive growth over the next few years, a new study predicts.
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WiMax earned an important seal of approval on Thursday when the Radiocommunication Sector of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)&#160;certified it as a 3G mobile data technology.Heavily promoted by Intel and sometimes criticized as overhyped, WiMax is based on industry standards but has been the young upstart in the telecommunications industry. With this week&#39;s decision in Geneva by the radio group, also called ITU-R, it can finally rub shoulders with widely deployed technologies such as WCDMA and CDMA-2000.Many governments dictate technologies when they allocate wireless spectrum, and they typically look to the ITU, which is affiliated with the United Nations, to say what technologies qualify. WiMax will now be one of their choices when faced with a requirement for 3G, which the ITU calls IMT-2000.&quot;Having the ITU say that it counts really opens up some opportunities,&quot; said Peter Jarich of Current Analysis Inc. In particular, carriers that participate in upcoming auctions in Europe may choose WiMax instead of the more established 3G systems, he said. Broader deployments of WiMax in Europe, which has seen a few rollouts so far, would help increase production volumes and in turn lower equipment prices worldwide, according to Jarich.The ITU-R approval is a victory for advocates of technology neutrality, who want carriers to have more choices for high-speed wireless deployments, Jarich said. In most parts of the world, 3G is dominated by WCDMA, the next step on the migration path from GSM. But the ITU-R has also recognized CDMA-2000, the 3G upgrade to CDMA networks, and TD-SCDMA (Time Division-Synchronous Code-Division Multiple Access), developed in China, as well as other technologies.&quot;To have WiMax approved as an IMT-2000 technology is a huge win for the WiMax Forum,&quot; said Ron Resnick, president of the WiMax Forum, the industry group that certifies interoperability of products using the technology.What the standards body actually voted to support was OFDMA (Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing), which forms the basis of WiMax today but is also set to power future technologies, including LTE (Long-Term Evolution), a system now under development as the next step in the GSM migration path. Commercial LTE deployment is expected in 2009 or 2010.WiMax, based on the IEEE 802.16 standard, is designed to deliver IP data traffic at multiple megabits per second over a range of several kilometers. A fixed version is already certified by the WiMax Forum industry group, which plans to start certifying interoperability among mobile products next year. Sprint Nextel and Clearwire plan to deploy WiMax in markets across the U.S. starting late this year in what is set to be the biggest rollout yet.
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InfoWorld - As the mobile phone industry scrambles to put cellphones in the hands of billions of unconnected people in emerging markets, less-expensive, higher-speed WiMax is likely to be the technology of choice to connect them to the Internet.
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At virtually every turn, Intel  Corp. executives are heaping praise on an emerging long-range  wireless technology known as WiMAX, which can blanket entire  cities with high-speed Internet access.