Six well-known companies have reported the formation of a new Alliance Open Patent Alliance (OPA), which would promote market wireless technology WiMax.
The composition of OPA currently includes Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Clearwire, Intel, Samsung Electronics and Sprint. The companies intend to work together to form a special patent pool in the development of related systems, WiMax. The emergence of such a pool of network equipment developers WiMax, as well as the operators will be able to license once all the necessary technology at a reasonable price. In addition, as expected, participants will be able to Open Patent Alliance to mutual exchange of licenses, which should accelerate the introduction of services will be WiMax.
It is worth mentioning that the maximum rate of information transmission in WiMax networks can reach 70 Mbit / s, and the range of - 50 km in the absence of direct line of sight. Mobile WiMax can theoretically on the move portable devices to exchange data at speeds up to 40 Mbit / s per channel in a radius of several kilometers.
WiMax networks have to compete with wireless service based on the fourth-generation technology LTE (Long Term Evolution). Moreover, data transmission systems based on LTE will provide a peak data transfer rate from the base station to the client device in 326 Mbit / s. However, the massive deployment of LTE will not begin until 2010, whereas the introduction of WiMax is already in progress at a fast pace. For example, late last year, Intel signed an agreement with OAO Comstar United TeleSystems ' strategic cooperation agreement to deploy mobile WiMax networks in the Russian Federation.
Source:. Nag. ru.
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