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Intel Working on Agile Wireless Chip
Rob writes "Computer Business Review is reporting that Intel has announced that its scientists had
invented a new type of chip that can process signals from different types of wireless
networks. The chip also could handle upcoming WiMax technology, that promises
wireless internet connectivity for up to 30 miles, and future flavors of WiFi."
Now I can see every wireless network for 10 miles, I'll have all sorts of crazy names to sift through!
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I'm on a college campus, so if I walk down the street, I can see almost dozens of seperate wireless networks (from apartments to different college wireless zones)
If they expanded wireless to 10 miles... oh my!
[not that I'd torment anybody, but it's always fun to look around
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That 30 mile (48 km?) range sounds awfully nice, but I would guess it's not a figure to be relied on for regular use. The WiMAX forum's home page provides some more realistic range figures:
In a typical cell radius deployment of three to ten kilometers, WiMAX Forum Certified(TM) systems can be expected to deliver capacity of up to 40 Mbps per channel, for fixed and portable access applications. This is enough bandwidth to simultaneously support hundreds of businesses with T-1 speed connectivity and thousands of residences with DSL speed connectivity. Mobile network deployments are expected to provide up to 15 Mbps of capacity within a typical cell radius deployment of up to three kilometers.
It sounds like 3 km (under 2 miles) from a tower is best, with up to 10 km (just over 6 miles) plausible.
Jamie
As excited as I am about WiMax, I'm just as interested in whether or not this chip will be compatible with HSDPA, which is looking to be the competing standard in the coming years.
Cingular, the nation's largest cellular carrier, is making a big push for HSDPA, hoping to have it rolled out in 15-20 markets by the end of the year. 3 Mbps wireless internet with a coverage area as large as Cingulars' is a pretty tempting prospect to me, and having compatibility built in to my devices with this Intel chip might just seal the deal.
Ever transfer files from one computer to another with a crossover cable? It's really nice to do it wirelessly- hence ad hoc mode.
For the layman's overview of ad hoc mode check out this overview if you want the nitty gritty read the standard itself
It is a real mode. And would be quite usefull if chipset manufacturers bothered to implement it correctly and test interoperability.
American Engineering's hallmark is world renown for its design of *independent* systems. American's redundancy in independent systems provides a level of robustness superior to an integrated design.
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Intel multiplexing a blackbox all-in-one chip flys in the face of historical precedent. You young whippersnapper's at
Go back to bed...
-r
Okay, I can see why this may have been modded as "Offtopic," but wireless networks with a long range can spawn "local internets," just like BBS's were "small wide area networks" way back when.
Am I way off base here?
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