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WiMAX gaining traction again - an overview

In January, I wrote on TeleCis Wireless' funding. TeleCis is a fabless semiconductor company in Silicon Valley dedicated to delivering multiprotocol-wireless system-on-a-chip solutions.

David Sumi, Vice President of Marketing at TeleCis, now writes on convergedigest.com on the WiMAX evolution. David is making a point when he writes that

"indeed, for any wireless technology to be truly viable, it must take advantage of the one unassailable attribute wireless has over all other access technologies – the ability to move about."

That explains why TeleCis focuses on 802.16e, the mobile version of WiMAX.

It seems to me that WiMAX is getting traction again, after the 2004 hype and its free fall in 2005.

Telephony's Next Act

I have passed on the dark side of the force for the last three months and been working on a software-related topic - principally getting to know the upper layers of the stack better. I shall pick up regular blogging again from next week onwards, together with my return to the more traditional world of communications.

In the meantime, you should check out an excellent article in Spectrum Online on "Telephony's Next Act", or the challenge to move from circuit-switched networks to IP. The article itself tells nothing spectactularly new, but it's an article I would take to my grandmother to explain what the difference between her old phone and VoIP is, and what it will take to get rid of her old phone number in an migration to ENUM.