IDF, Fall 2004: Intel fleshes out WiMAX rollout

 

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By Alun Williams, San Francisco

Posted on 9 Sep 2004 at 23:15

At a more micro-level, he said a WiMAX network can be flexibly managed for optimal use of bandwidth, for example in changing the amount of throughput that is available for different people at different time. This is a flexibility of distribution that current 'capped broadband' products rather crudely attempt.

He said that WiMAX was crucial to Intel's plans for wireless connectivity, playing its part in getting 'the best connection you can find'.

With WiMAX currently in the sampling phase, Intel's Scott Richardson, General Manager of the Wireless Broadband Division has said that deployment - in terms of base stations and clients - will follow next year. He is pictured below, pointing out the Rosedale chip on a sample board.