Originally published May 5 2005
Intel's Rosedale WiMax chip to increase range of wireless internet access
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
While current Wi-Fi technology allows wireless internet users to connect up to 300 feet away from their port, a new technology called WiMax promises to offer wireless internet over a 30 mile radius. Short for "Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access," WiMax will be made available by the Rosedale chip manufactured by Intel. This chip may make wireless internet feasible for people living in remote rural locales, areas which have had problems getting Wi-Fi access in the past, but, at $45 each per 1,000 ordered, the costs are still prohibitive. Companies like Alvarion, Airspan, Siemens, Proxim, Redline Communications, ZiMax Technologies, Huawei Technologies are already producing hardware to facilitate the chip.
The primary benefit of the emerging technology known as "WiMax" will be that it untethers everyone from their computers while bringing high-speed Internet access to rural and suburban areas.
The industry has been waiting for the deluge for some time now, and the floodgates should open with Intel's (Nasdaq: INTC) release of its WiMax "Rosedale" chip on Monday.
That limiting factor generated a proliferation of various Wi-Fi "hot spots," like Internet cafes, for mobile users to stop in and access the 'Net while sipping on a cup of joe.
It offers the high speeds associated with broadband Internet access, wireless connectivity like Wi-Fi, and broad coverage similar to what cell phone users have.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the group that sets industry standards, wants to ensure that WiMax equipment works together.
A forum to address just that was postponed from January to July.
But even with the high cost and potential snags of possible incompatibility, investors can start looking into ways of profiting from the coming boom.
Telecom equipment maker Alvarion (Nasdaq: ALVR) has signed on Alcatel (NYSE: ALA) and Lucent (NYSE: LU) as resellers of its WiMax equipment and has demonstrated the capability of its equipment using the Intel chip.
Other vendors that will use the Intel WiMax chip in their equipment include Siemens (NYSE: SI), tiny Proxim, Redline Communications, ZiMax Technologies, and China's Huawei Technologies.
A California ISP is testing a WiMax VoIP system, and carriers like AT&T (NYSE: T) are investigating WiMax as way of getting around paying local carriers -- currently a $10 billion expense, the company says -- for last-mile access to customers.
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