[127168] in North American Network Operators' Group
Future of WiMax
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Wed Jun 16 15:35:33 2010
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:35:16 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
A while back I remember reading a comment here that "WiMax is not a
future proof technology" and that several manufacturers have dropped it
or something to that effect. I think it was in the starting a WiMax ISP
thread. This has stuck in my head, and I was curious if there was any
truth to this.
WiMax sounds promising, but I certainly don't hear a lot about it other
than Sprint/Clear. Is it just that everyone that's doing wireless is
sticking with relatively inexpensive 802.11 a/b/g/n products, or is
WiMax really a dead end?
~Seth
