TAIPEI: Chipmaker Intel said it is stepping up development for the next generation WiMAX 2 technology, which is based on the IEEE 802.16m standard.
Intel vice-president and director of its WiMAX programme, Rama Shukla said that the company is working beyond the current 802.16e standard and is expecting 802.16m to be a huge improvement over the former.
“We expect 802.16m to be a significant improvement over 802.16e, moving forward in terms of delivering a huge jump in delivering faster download and upload speeds,” he said.
Intel claims the new standard will deliver download speeds of up to 170Mbps and 90Mbps for uploads. The new WiMAX standard is said to be fully backward-compatible with the 802.16e standard.
Shukla said that although development of the 802.16m standard is expected to be completed by the middle of this year, it is only expected to be commercially available in 2012.
Other enhancements that 802.16m offers include higher VoIP capacity, lower latency and ability for users to use the service even when travelling at speeds of 350km, which is the speed of a bullet train.
This is an improvement over the previous WiMAX 802.16d standard, which could only service devices in fixed locations and not mobile devices like smartphones or laptops.
Intel said the improvement comes in light of the huge shift in consumer data consumption as a growing number of mobile devices are able to connect to the Internet.
Embedded chips
Paving the way forward for WiMAX, Intel said it has introduced to the market its WiFi/WiMAX combo embedded solutions which include its Kilmer Peak chipset for notebooks and Evan Peak for smartphones which integrates WiFi, WiMAX, Bluetooth and GPS.
Taiwan-based original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) Acer and Asus introduced Intel-based notebooks with built-in WiMAX features in conjunction with the launch of VMAX Telecom’s 4G WiMAX network in Taipei recently.
Intel said it expects most major PC OEMs to offer WiMAX-enabled notebooks by the second half of this year
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