Subject: [NEXTEL-1] Intel to unveil ‘next big thing’ inwireless

From: Marcel <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 14:29:17 -0400

Intel to unveil ‘next big thing’ inwireless

By BOB BREWIN
APRIL 08, 2003

Intel Corp. plans to unveil its push into
what it called the "next big thing" in
wireless networking at a news
conference set for 1 p.m. EDT today.
Analysts said Intel would be detailing its
plans to incorporate the IEEE 802.16
wireless metropolitan-area network
(MAN) standards into its evolving
wireless road map.

Tom Potts, an Intel spokesman, said
the news conference would focus on
development of a wireless standard that
would provide coverage over an area of
30 miles, compared with the 300-foot
range of the 802.11b wireless LANs now
in common use.

Craig Mathias, an analyst at Farpoint
Group in Ashland, Mass., said he had
been briefed by Intel and confirmed the company's interest in 802.16. "This
shows that Intel wants to
be a wireless company," he said.

Mathias added that he expects other fixed wireless manufacturers to sign on to
the Intel-backed
802.16 effort, including Proxim Corp. in Sunnyvale, Calif., and Flarion
Technologies Inc. in Bedminster,
N.J.

The New York-based Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
started work on the 802.16
standard in July 1999 and initially focused its development efforts in the high
end of the frequency
spectrum. Last month, the IEEE added the 2 to-11-GHz bands to the 802.16
standard. WLANs
operate within this spectrum in the 2.4- and 5-GHz bands.

It isn’t clear whether the 802.16-based networks will be compatible with
wireless networks using the
802.11a, 802.11b or 802.11g wireless networking protocols.

Mathias said he expects Intel to focus on using 802.16 to serve as an
alternative to wired high-speed
connections for homes or enterprises, such as Digital Subscriber Line or cable.
But, Mathias said, he
also expects the company to capitalize on the work done by the IEEE’s 802.16e
subgroup, which is
developing a mobile version of the standard. That could eventually compete with
802.11 WLANs, he
said.

Mathias went on to say that since 802.16 is a standard, it will "blow away"
other MAN products and
systems.

http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/technology/story/0,10801,80145,00.html?nas=AM-80145

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