iSuppli: WiMAX base station and CPE to grow at 31.3% CAGR by 2009
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iSuppli predicts revenue from WiMax base-station and customer-premise equipment (CPE) sales worldwide will achieve annual growth rates of only 14-25% from 2004 through 2007.
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Sprint and Clearwire aim to get the first nationwide WiMax network running in the U.S. by the end of 2008.
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Analysis Prospects bright in the Wi-Fi arena
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Three years of solid development in wireless broadband lie ahead, Intel says, as it gives a first look at its Rosedale WiMax processor.
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(InfoWorld) - The process to standardize a rival to the broadband wireless WiMax technology is back on track although the delay and scandal around it could present a serious set back to the effort. On Tuesday, standards setting body the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) announced changes that would allow the 802.20 working group, suspended in June, to continue to develop the standard. The group will elect all new officers and resume working once a chair is approved, which IEEE hopes will happen by Nov. 12. Participants in the group will also be required to disclose all of their affiliations, including any company that pays, employs or sponsors the member. Some experts warn, however, that the changes could be coming too late. "Whatever the reality behind it, 802.20 is now so heavily associated with Qualcomm that it will not be perceived as an independent standard," said Caroline Gabriel, an analyst with Rethink Research. The IEEE put the new measures in place in hopes of correcting the problems that lead to the suspension of the group in June. At the time, the standards body had received several complaints, including some that accused the independent analyst who served as chairman of 802.20 of being paid by Qualcomm, an accusation he later confirmed. In addition, the IEEE said the group's activities had become unusually contentious. The 802.20 group began as an offshoot of 802.16, the standard that forms the basis of WiMax. The goal of the 802.16 effort initially was to build a fixed broadband wireless technology that would compete with DSL (digital subscriber line) and other wireline technologies. As work progressed, however, 802.16 members decided that in the future, the standard should be capable of supporting mobile or portable access as well. But some of the members didn't want to have to build the mobility feature on top of a standard that was originally created for a fixed application. Consequently, they split off to create 802.20, a mobile broadband wireless standard that could be created from scratch and would be designed to support broadband wireless access for users moving at very high speeds, such as on a train. While 802.16 emphasizes throughput speeds, 802.20 emphasizes supporting access at very fast user mobility. IntelÂ is a major backer of the 802.16 process and ArrayCommÂ and Flarion have been heavily involved in the 802.20 process. Intel competitorÂ Qualcomm acquired FlarionÂ last year. Qualcomm is best known for its development of CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) and strict licensing policies. The process of completing the 802.20 standard was already far behind its 802.16 competitor when the suspension occurred. The specification for the fixed version of 802.16 is finished with products currently shipping and the mobile version of 802.16 was ratified late last year. The 802.20 standard will also have to compete with the developing cellular standards, such as HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access).
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By Anonymous  No sooner has the market for consumer electronics devices incorporating Wi-Fi begun to gain real traction than another, based on high-speed connections via 3G cellular technologies or mobile WiMAX, is starting to take shape.
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The Radicati Group pegs the penetration of Wi-Fi in the enterprise at 50 percent by 2008. Cut that number in half and itâs still huge. So now that Wi-Fi is becoming a standard part of enterprise infrastructure, itâs time to get serious about security and management.
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(InfoWorld) - Clearwire shares soared after the WiMax service provider's IPO on Thursday, though later in the day they settled around their initial price. The successful IPO, which raised about $600 million, may be a good sign for the emerging wireless broadband technology the company uses to provide Internet access to more than 200,000 U.S. customers. The company, backed by Intel and Motorola, serves 35 U.S. metropolitan markets. WiMax has a longer range than Wi-Fi and can deliver higher speeds depending on how bandwidth is allocated. Because it's based on standards, WiMax could become a widely deployed technology that's inexpensive to build into portable devices. Sprint Nextel plans to use the technology as a complement to its cellular network beginning later this year. Clearwire's underwriters sold 24 million shares at a price of $25 per share in the IPO. On Thursday, the stock opened at $27.25 per share, though later in the day it settled around the $25 level. The Kirkland, Washington, company was founded in 2003 by mobile pioneer Craig McCaw, who started McCaw Cellular in the 1990s and later sold it to AT&T Wireless. Clearwire filed for an IPO last year but withdrew the filing in July after receiving $600 million in funding from Intel Capital. Motorola participated in the same round of funding, which totaled $900 million, and in the process acquired NextNet Wireless, Clearwire's hardware subsidiary. Part of Clearwire's value comes from its spectrum licenses. Unlike Wi-Fi, WiMax is expected in many cases to be deployed over licensed frequencies. Sprint Nextel holds about 85 percent of the licenses across the country for spectrum in a valuable band around 2.5GHz that can be used for WiMax. The carrier, third-largest in the U.S., has said it expects to reach as many as 100 million people with WiMax by the end of next year.
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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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HP and Global Mobile demonstrated a mobile WiMax station for use in hospitals.
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Will launch a fixed wireless service in a 'major city' next year
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(InfoWorld) - Nortel Networks is spending 10 times as much on mobile wireless WiMax technology research today as it did a year ago, part of an initiative by Nortel chief technology officer John Roese in his first year at the post. Nortel's research investment in mobile WiMax, also known as 802.16e, is now $100 million, up from $10 million a year ago, Roese said in a recent interview as he celebrated his first anniversary. He assumed the CTO position in June 2006. As CTO, Roese oversees the $1.7 billion R&D budget for the networking equipment maker. That amount is about 17 percent of Nortel's revenues, slightly down from 19 percent a year ago, although the division still employs about 12,000 professionals, he said. The biggest shift at Nortel R&D is a stronger emphasis on WiMax and other emerging technologies, which was accomplished by lowering Nortel's R&D in what Roese called "late-lifecycle products," such as GSM technology, that still need research but are generally well defined in the market, he said. A year ago, half the R&D budget went for late-lifecycle products; now that figure has been reduced to 20 percent of the R&D budget. "Fifty percent on late-lifecycle products was inefficient," Roese said. Roese said it is important in R&D to have top developers working on the next wave of technology, not on declining segments. In all, about 20 percent of R&D is now devoted to emerging technologies such as mobile WiMax, while 60 percent is devoted to products in the middle of their lifecycle. Nortel also sold its UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) unit to Alcatel-Lucent, which will help R&D focus on other areas, Roese said. The unit was not profitable, he said. Roese believes unified communications products, including mobile WiMax, will bring "huge productivity" to network providers and large businesses alike. Fixed WiMax, or 802.16d, is already being shipped to carriers to provide backhaul communications for cellular networks but has been implemented in some parts of the world to provide broadband access instead of using copper cable. Mobile WiMax will be a high-performance wireless data network for laptops and consumer devices, Roese said, and will eventually be used for voice service as a competitor to cellular voice. "WiMax is just emerging," he said. "It can be a reusable network for mobile data, DSL replacement, video distribution, and real 4G wireless. It will be built once and used for many purposes." Some cities and towns building municipal Wi-Fi networks have been interested in whether WiMax, fixed or mobile, might be the next-generation technology that threatens Wi-Fi, but Roese said Wi-Fi and WiMax will likely be complementary. Wi-Fi runs in an unlicensed spectrum, while WiMax will run in a licensed spectrum, he noted. "You'll want endpoints from unlicensed and licensed, so you want Wi-Fi and WiMax to both come together. You may be uplinking Wi-Fi endpoints via WiMax." The WiMax Forum expects WiMax-based systems to deliver up to 40Mbps of data per channel over as much as six miles.
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In the year that John Roese has been chief technology officer at Nortel Networks, spending on R&D has jumped from $10 million a year to 10 times that amount. The focus: WiMax.
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PicoChip's base station for the 4G mobile standard LTE can also run WiMax.
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Manufacturers prepare for Sprint Nextel's and Clearwire's Xohm WiMax service.
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SDEROT, Israel  - 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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A new report compiled by a wireless services consulting firm ranks Wi-Fi, WiMax, and third generation (3G) cellular networks in 16 North American cities.