More interesting news on the WiMAX front just hit the wires straight from CTIA 2005....and WiMAX is the hot topic of this wireless event and is looking up for 2006.
Motorola just announced the development of its Canopy WiMAX platform which will be available worldwide outside of the United States. The platform includes infrastructure, indoor and outdoor customer premise equipment (CPE) and various management components.
Per the release:
"The expertise and success we've gained in developing Canopy Advantage(TM) can be easily leveraged to create a robust solution for the licensed bands. The Canopy WiMAX platform will be a powerful solution providing an alternative to E1/T1, DSL (digital subscriber line) and cable for fixed business and fixed residential customers, as well as a graceful migration to mobile services through 802.16e in the future," said Juan Santiago, director of strategy for Motorola's Wireless Broadband group.
The plug-and-play indoor CPE will be fully user installable, with a non-line-of-sight (NLOS) range of up to two miles (three kilometers). By eliminating the cost of a truck roll, lowering initial customer support costs, and enabling wide retail distribution, carriers will finally have a wireless alternative that addresses today's residential and enterprise broadband business case and opens a new market of affordable personal mobile broadband in the near future.
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