THE STREET.COM Baltimore's WiMax Network an Early Winner
10/08/08 - 03:43 PM EDT Gary Krakow BALTIMORE -- Forget about 3G -- that's the past. It's now time to consider 4G wireless networks, especially the kind announced here in on Wednesday. Sprint(S Quote - Cramer on S - Stock Picks) and partners Intel(INTC Quote - Cramer on INTC - Stock Picks), Samsung, Motorola(MOT Quote - Cramer on MOT - Stock Picks), Nokia(NOK Quote - Cramer on NOK - Stock Picks), Nokia Siemens Networks, ZTE and ZyXEL, along with computer makers Acer, Asus, Dell(DELL Quote - Cramer on DELL - Stock Picks), Lenovo, Panasonic, Sony(SNE Quote - Cramer on SNE - Stock Picks) and Toshiba officially inaugurated the world's first 4G network called Xohm (pronounced Zome). It runs on a new technology called WiMax. The event was self-congratulatory, with a lot of patting each other on the back and saying how amazing it was to get a 4G network up and running before anyone else could. I'll give them that. But the companies also admitted that Baltimore, their first rollout city, was not 100% complete. It's more like 75% complete -- with what were termed "bubbles" where the WiMAX signal didn't perform at its best. Xohm Chief Technical Officer Barry West said that was OK, and that they would soon fill in all the holes. He added that Baltimore was chosen first because its layout and the harbors provided a challenge to his engineers. Wait until he tries New York! After all the ceremonial ribbon-cutting, everyone was allowed to road-test the service -- figuratively and literally. We hopped inside a minivan to get an idea at how well the new 4G service works. We were driven around Baltimore's Inner Harbor while downloading files, watching videos and surfing the Web. What we saw was very impressive -- we're talking downloads as fast as 5,557 kilobits per second and 1,702 kilobits kbps for uploads. It was even faster in the simulated home-use setup we were shown. Previous rumors had suggested there were indoor reception problems for WiMax. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Ehman Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 2:52 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Wimax world news? WiNOG did have the Wu Wu special 2 Parts Technical Jargon 1 Part Credit Card Processing ON DISCOUNT!!!! :) Some humor for a great Wednesday afternoon -Jeff General Manager CTI (773) 667-4585 x2509 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Ehman Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 2:42 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Wimax world news? WiMAX World was a bunch of mobile pipedream stuff with an emphasis on in the clouds technology roadmaps, haha. What most people got out of WiNOG was the ability to speak with other operators ACTUALLY deploying 3.65 gear. Can't really describe the good parts, except for getting Redline and Aperto's full attention for 2 days instead of being attacked by 300 vendors. I think everyone in our industry is aware of the benefit of 3.65 being open spectrum and the ability for high quality service due to WiMAX's QoS capabilities. Only time will tell with which manufacturer will win your hearts but the mobile stuff that WiMAX World spoke about is not it at this point..... -Jeff General Manager CTI (773) 667-4585 x2509 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gino Villarini Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 5:29 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Wimax world news? Well, lets hear it! I was unable to attend, even tough I really wanted! Gino A. Villarini [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. tel 787.273.4143 fax 787.273.4145 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Wu Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 11:27 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Wimax world news? Nothing terribly exciting at WiMAX World WiNOG, on the other hand... <grin> -Charles Charles Wu President [EMAIL PROTECTED] cell: 773-457-0718 * office: 773-667-4585 x2500 16W235 83rd Street, Suite A, Burr Ridge, IL 60527 * tel: 773.667.4585 fax: 773.326.4641 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gino Villarini Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 3:43 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] Wimax world news? Any interesting news? -----Original Message----- From: Adam Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 4:33 PM To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org> Subject: [WISPA] Radwin 2000 Hi, Has anyone heard of or used products by Radwin (www.radwin.com)? I understand they are releasing the Radwin 2000 series of 5.x GHz point-to-point links in the US in November. The price is very attractive. My main concern is performance & reliability. We can test the performance within a short period of time, but not the reliability (would need to have the link up for a while to do that). We are considering these for a critical < 2 mi. link. Thanks, Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- WISPA Wants You! 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