Commercial Success of WiMAX will not come easily.

(PRWEB) February 15, 2004 --Research and Markets announces the addition of this new report entitled "WiMAX and Wi-Fi: Unwiring the World" to its offerings.

WiMAX stands for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access and it is the latest and most-hyped, generation of fixed wireless technology in years. What differentiates WiMAX from earlier broadband wireless access (BWA) iterations is standardization. Chipsets are currently custom-built for each broadband wireless access vendor, adding time and cost to the process. Intel, Fujitsu and others would like to bring scale to the market and, ideally, create a larger market along the way.

The vendors behind WiMAX hope to do for last-mile wireless broadband what the Wi-Fi Alliance did for Wi-Fi. And while the story is compelling, the truth is much more complex.

This report believes that WiMAX will succeed commercially, but not easily, nor quickly. There is a great deal of vendor resistance, operator reluctance and general market confusion at work.

This report questions operators feelings about WiMAX, which broadband wireless access (BWA) vendors are best-positioned to succeed, and
of course will interference be the downfall of WiMAX?

Companies mentioned in this report include Airspan Networks, Alvarion, Aperto Networks,Flarion, Intel, Motorola, Navin, Networks, NextNet Wireless, Proxim, Redline Communications, SR Telecom and WaveRider. Carriers covered include Nextel, BellSouth, British Telecom, Korea Telecom and Verizon.

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