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WiMax's Slipping Date Has Pressured Makers |
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Written by Kory Mohr
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Thursday, 14 April 2005 |
Amended from WiMax Networking News:
 Investor’s Business Daily says that WiMax’s delays has changed the marketplace for gear:
It’s hammered the stock of companies poised to be early entrants, and
that are now selling so-called pre-WiMax gear that uses standards and
technology similar to what will be certified in July. While the delay
of a year from the original timetable to get WiMax certification
finished hasn’t dimmed interest in products based on the technology, it
means that Alvarion and Airspan among others face a much larger
competitive landscape when gear finally ships.
The article manages to perpetuate two common errors, unfortunately.
First, it fails to distinguish between the IEEE’s standards work that
resulted in 802.16-2004 (encompassing everything but 802.16e, the
mobile WiMax flavor) and WiMax certification. The IEEE doesn’t certify,
and the article draws an analogy with Wi-Fi that has the same flaw. But
the writer rightly notes that certification is yet to come. |
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