Rosedale WiMAX to come next year

INTEL SAID at a press conference here that silicon for WiMAX broadband wireless will be ready in Q4 of this year, and large deployments will start next year.

The first implementation will be for base stations in towers allowing indoor performance and replace cable and DSL.

The applications are likely to be first in areas of the world where DSL or cable doesn't exist, such as Latin America, rural environments in the US, in China and in Russia.

The second phase is based on the 802.16e which is close to being finalised. This will allow the ability to add low power devices and low power clients. That phase will kick in in 2006.

In 2007 the WiMAX networks will allow full mobility.