Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Intel releases Wi-Max chip

Intel Corp. announced the availability of its "Rosedale" WiMAX broadband interface device late on Monday, two days before Fujitsu and Wi-Lan Ltd. roll out their own WiMAX chip in Las Vegas. The two announcements are important steps toward making the WiMAX technology a reality. However, some attendees here at the WiMAX and Broadband Access Conference here began sounding a note of caution concerning the business models surrounding the technology..... [Good advice:] Baker, however, warned WiMAX providers to avoid being trapped by existing wired services. "You shouldn't extend their antenna anywhere you can not make money, and this is where Mesh Broadband went wrong," he said. Proxim and Alvarion are on-board.

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