Mobile Wimax News

A group of  scientists at IBM Research and MediaTek have teamed up to try develop a wireless transmission protocol that will deliver files more than 100 times faster than Wi-Fi.

Its called a PMWC or prototype millimeter wave chip
They will try to take advantage of the 60GHz spectrum, according to Mehmet Soyuer, the lead researcher on the project, who is based in IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. Those chips should be able to transfer files at around 2.5 gigabits per second, compared with the 11 to 54 megabits of Wi-Fi. That would be about 100 times faster, Soyuer said.
In other words these chips could transfer a 10 gigabyte file wirelessly in five seconds or so, something that would take several minutes on a Wi-Fi network.
The 60GHz spectrum is part of the millimeter wave spectrum, which runs from 30GHz to 300GHz. SiBeam, which is the driving force behind the WirelessHD consortium, has been showing off 60GHz chips in TVs and will make a big push for them at CES. There are other companies that are also coming out with high-end wireless video and audio chips.
IBM MediaTek will combine forces to work on the digital signal processing project.
IBM and MediaTek want to have something out in three years.

Samsung Electronics is to be the prime builder and supplier for the New York
Wimax network. It was also awarded contracts all over the northeast as Wimax will literally spread everywhere.

Sprint is reportedly very happy with the Korean vendor because the New York market should be the most lucrative for the not completely tested advanced wireless service.

As incredible as it sounds the service promises comparable service to dsl and it would provide easy fast internet.

Sprint has partnered with Clearwire in the nationwide rollout of this new wireless technology.

Wimax, Wifi on steroids

Wimax which sounds a lot like WiFi just better may completely change the way we all use the internet and more importantly the way we use cellular phones. The Wimax will allow internet use everywhere and at very high speed. There will be no need to look for a hot spot or use a cable. In the new notebooks there will be a built in chip that will automatically connect to the Wimax, everywhere.

This being the case the Voip aspect of computers will allow free calls. In other words there will be little need for conventional cell phones as free services such as Skype or google talk and many other Voip services. Mobile Wimax usage will become the new standard of cell phones lowering costs considerably. There will be new cell phones that will automatically by default connect to skype or some other free VOIP. When this connection doesn’t work or the party you are calling is not connected to the web it will revert back to a regular cellphone.

Lots of money is being spent on the Wimax network, it will revolutionize the way people use computers. There will be no need to connect to a Jack or even to a “ hot spot “ the Wimax will change all of that. WiMax allows connections over long distances, making blanket coverage over a metropolitan area more possible than with Wireless Fidelity, or Wi-Fi, the familiar and popular standard used to connect to networks over short distances.

The only visible limitation from being online all the time might be battery power from laptops.

In any case Intel has been working on this technology trying to convince PC makers to build the system into there notebooks. Google seems very interested as the search giant inked a deal with sprint to build services that will run on the carriers Wimax network. Sprint predicts a full $5 billion revenue return on an initial $5 billion investment on Wimax by the year 2010. Clearwire and Sprint hope to be able to offer customers access to a network covering 100 million people by the end of next year. As the process develops prices should drop as service providers scramble for customers. In the next year or two there may be a launch to properly test the system and service and lock in customers. The launch will happen in the US and western Europe and possibly South Korea with later deployment in India China and South America. There is actually according to some a system in place that could just make the switch from WI-FI to Wimax, the Philippines for instance. Many of those so-called pre-WiMax networks use a technology standard called 802.16d, which is designed for connecting things such as laptops that aren’t moving around, unlike a later standard, 802.16e, which is what Sprint and Clearwire are using.

It’s quite amazing if you think about it to be on line all the time, everywhere. Well almost everywhere. If you are on a train plane or even rickshaw you can be completely connected provided you have the juice to run your PC.

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