Over in the ever sunny city of Amman in Jordan, my old friend, colleague and tech guru Ian Heath, informs me that as of the 19th of April the first end to end WiMAX Wave II system has been launched.
Ian designed the systems and many a late hour we used to sit working out the concepts and ways to make the whole thing work. But that was 3 years ago and now, above the original WiMAX, ‘Wave II’ is here and will change all our lives in the not too distant future, as many of the worlds existing WiFi and WiMAX systems are upgraded and new ones come online.
Here is the Press release;
Mr. Ian Heath, Kulacom Group Chief Technology Officer stated,
‘Wave II is the world’s latest network technology and the best wireless broadband standard for portable 
devices, enabling a new era of high throughput and high delivered bandwidth together with exceptional spectral efficiency. These advantages will provide our customers with unparalleled capabilities in addition to providing us with added network capacity for the support of a wide range of value-added services.’
The Wave II WiMAX network, which supports Multiple-Input Multiple Output (MIMO) capability, is a next generation wireless communications technology that enables superior performance, enhances the reliability of transmission speed, controls bandwidth to guarantee the minimum and maximum per user, and is fully portable and nomadic.
Heath added, ‘This means that our customers will be enjoying the convenience of a far superior high speed wireless broadband connectivity. We have also enhanced the WiMAX service by incorporating voice channelization over the air interface to provide unparalleled voice quality.’
‘We are very proud to announce the launch of the world’s first wireless end-to-end Wave II network which will enable our customers to realize the full potential of our wireless communications services.’
So what does all this actually mean??
Well, as this thing becomes global and available on every street etc, it means there will be no need for Land Line
communications, satellite/terrestrial TV and so on. Wherever you are on the planet, you’ll be able to receive instant real time information, entertainment and voice communication. It means standard video data will not be need to be compressed – so webcams can and will be able to run in real time – and so on.
So what about HDTV? I hear you ask. Well HD is being re-addressed, most people know that the 1080 standard cannot actually be broadcast and watched in real time – but the boffins who work with such technology are going back to the drawing board to see what they can improve. But never the less, real time tv without waiting for downloads and CPU crunch time is now here with Wave II.
So what is the drawback? Actually, it’s the mobile devices… 3 to 4 years ago when the company Ian (and at the time ‘I’) works for, blew the tech manufactures away when the bandwi
dth requirement was revealed. Since then phones and portable devices have changed and are evolving at a staggering rate. For me it’s been fun to watch with full knowledge of the technology to come. Yet when I was explaining this to non techie folk – they either looked at me with doubt (I’m used to that) or couldn’t even conceive of the concept.
But it’s now here, and it’s a reality – your worlds ARE gonna change!!!
Especially if Ian Heath has anything to do with it.
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I love coming over to your page – you have been known to lift my mood– make me laugh— make me think and educate thanks for wondering -Loraine
LOL I’m not sure I would agree, but thankyou
I was only emailing yesterday saying that my blog is a little ‘all over the place’.
Many things are snippets of stuff I can talk for hours on – good job I blog instead.
cheers Loraine
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