Building global broadband wireless networks
You can tell that Intel is getting pretty serious about pushing WiMAX to the world, when they dedicate an entire issue of Intel Technology Journal to the topic. The foreword promises WiMAX receivers to be integrated into the notebooks by 2006, and who’s better to give a roadmap for that than Intel. The article on global broadband wireless networks is more of a vision-type publication than it is technical, but is nevertheless interesting. Here’s how 9 authors view the future of broadband wireless:
However, universal acceptance of 802.16 for portable and mobile use is contingent on the Industry’s development, acceptance, and conformance to two complementary aspects of the IEEE 802.16 air interface standards work: (1) development and adoption of an open and extensible end-to-end architecture framework and specification that is agnostic to incumbent operator backend networks; and (2) a means for ensuring spec-compliant and vendor interoperable equipment to support cost-effective deployments and give users the capability to roam across networks established by different network operators.
…roam across networks established by different network operators? I can’t get that even on my cell phone, which seems to drop calls unexpectedly and get poor coverage in totally flat areas, while the friend’s seems to work fine.