Submitted by A CIO article examines why WiMax will be very popular among corporate IT managers. In a nutshell, because of its longer range and its presumed wide adoption, it will be cheaper and easier to maintain a WiMax network for a large office than a Wi-Fi one.
Unless you’re a major ISP, that is. The US version of WiMax operates on the licensed 2.5GHz band and virtually all of the licenses are owned by ISPs like Sprint/Clearwire.
http://www.wimax.com/education/faq/faq50
(Technically, 5.8GHz WiMax exists, but nobody is planning to sell compatible hardware in the US.)
Oh god yes, please save us from the vendor lock-in of Wi-Fi.
No wait, that’s not right….
Yes, we’re really lacking in vendors who provide Wi-Fi gear. No wait, again that’s not right…
I’ts like cutting phone bills by being your own telephone company.
When will people stop listening to Vaughn-Nichols?
Edited 2008-05-17 12:02 UTC
That’s because WiMAX is a WWAN competitor, where most solutions are lock-in.
Whether wimax can counter this remains to be seen.
WiMax isn’t a WiFi competitor. WiMax is supposed to compete with networks like PCS and EDGE, which do have vendor lock-in and a shortage of manufacturers & devices.
Of course it isn’t but that’s what the article says it is.
http://www.commsday.com/node/228
the people who use it think it’s crap.