WiMAX still has long way to go: But Cisco buyout of WiMAX vendor could boost the wireless technology

摘要

Cisco's deal to acquire WiMAX-equipment vendor Navini shines a bright light on this emerging technology For corporate network executives, however, the light is largely ornamental because there aren't any WiMAX networks in the United States, at least on any scale, so the slowly growing inventory of WiMAX client cards or adapters, or customer premises equipment generally is high-tech paperweight — at least for now. rnIn a recent study Solis concluded that WiMAX services will be widely available by 2009, and projects 95 million "fixed" CPE users and 200 million mobile device users equipped with WiMAX by 2012. in addition, a study by Infonetics Research,based on interviews at 550 companies, predicts that mobile WiMAX will be adopted by 11% of them by 2011.