Santa Clara, CA, Apr. 18 (UPI) -- California chipmaker Intel on Monday unveiled a chip for a long-range wireless Internet service, WiMAX, powerful enough to send a signal several miles.
The service can be used to receive and transmit a wireless broadband signal. It will enable delivery of broadband Internet access to remote areas not currently served by DSL or cable, as well as be able to wirelessly connect buildings up to several miles apart, Intel said. Typical wireless, or WiFi, only transmits signals a few hundred feet.
About 20 service and equipment providers worldwide, including Qwest, Siemens, AT&T, and British Telecom, said they plan to join with Intel for commercial WiMAX trials later this year. The trials are to be held by the WiMAX Forum, an industry group that will test and certify interoperability among WiMAX products from different manufacturers.
Intel's interface device is based on the 802.16 wireless standard, which will allow equipment from different companies to work together, Intel said.
WiMAX is short for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access.
This has been a long time coming, nice to hear it's finally ready to go public. :icon14:
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stocktroll wrote:wake me up when you can ping to any major region in the world at under 100ms latency and can roll on 100Mb standard personal connections,
