Leading mobile phone manufacturer, Nokia, and leading computer chip maker, Intel, have announced a collaboration in an effort to speed-up the development, adoption and deployment of WiMAX technology.
This announcement was made on Friday morning brings the best of both worlds together as both companies are industy leaders.
Hitherto, Intel has been pushing for the WiMax technology, after the wide acceptance of the now popular Wi-Fi technology. It's backing by Nokia is indeed a big boost.
WiMAX, an acronym that stands for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, is a certification mark for products that pass conformity and interoperability tests for the IEEE 802.16 standards. IEEE 802.16 is working group number 16 of IEEE 802, specialising in point-to-multipoint broadband wireless access.
The WiMAX protocol is a way of networking computers together; for example to provide internet access, in a similar way to Wi-Fi.
WiMAX is both faster and has a longer range than Wi-Fi. However, WiMAX does not necessarily conflict with Wi-Fi, but may indeed complement it, and it is designed to interwork.
- MobileAfrica.net
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