Melani Warod

Intel's executive vice president, WiMax project executive draw the easy carat (Rama Shukla) of horse Show on Tuesday, Intel estimates the next edition Release 2 of WiMax would begin to dispose in 2012, and the associated standard operation will be finished at the end of this year.

New WiMax standard 802.16m will replace present 802.16e, will offer the transmission rate of more quick ascending-descending. According to data of Intel, fall while being technical while being new and upstream speed up to 170Mbps and 90Mbps respectively, and compatible 802.16e totally backward. Users can use this technology under the environment at 350 kilometres per hour.

Adopt 802.16e canonial WiMax network to descent at present and the upstream speed is usually 16Mbps and 4Mbps. Easy carat show, in the industry to expect WiMax number of users global of this year between 6 million and 10 million, mainly lie in countries such as U.S.A., Russia and Japan,etc.. Most users use WiMax service through the notebook computer. He shows: "We see WiMax there is very strong motive force of growth in the field of note-book. "

The main rival of WiMax is the movement communication standard that the needle is made to the mobile phone, such as HSPA (high-speed packet access) And LTE (long-term gradual progress) . WiMax has certain inferior position at present, because a lot of WiMax networks are newly commercial, the coverage of network is not big, and the mobile phone network has already covered global most population.

In Taiwan, WiMax service provider is majestic to step Sri Lankan's telecommunications (Vmax Telecom) Network last Taibei already, be lasted areaed beyond Taibei. And HSPA network of Chinese telecommunications has already covered the whole Taiwan. Though the network speed of WiMax network is quicker than the mobile phone network, the mobile phone trade is making great efforts to promote the network performance, in order to maintain the advantage.