Part of the WiMAX World festivities taking place this week, Motorola was on hand in Chicago last night to demonstrate fragments of the Mobile WiMAX build-out it's been throwing together to support the upcoming launch of
Sprint's Xohm service. A leisurely cruise took curious onlookers down the Chicago River while Moto
demonstrated a variety of WiMAX-friendly goodies like VoIP and streaming video, with handoffs flawlessly (apparently) transitioning the signal from access point to access point amongst canyons of skyscrapers, steel, and cement. The company also took its demo onto the "streets along the Chicago River while driving at speeds beyond 50 mph," a clear violation of local traffic laws, so we're hoping Moto's got some money socked away in its meager coffers to pony up some fines. Anyway, if all goes well, the demos foretell a late '07 soft launch of Xohm's Chicago network, with a commercial release in April of next year.
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ShortFuse @ Sep 26th 2007 3:34PM
sounds neat. does anybody know approx real speeds?
Leroy Vargas @ Sep 26th 2007 10:28PM
I wonder If Moto's Xohm devices are using TI's WiMAX RFIC solutions. (Moto is a good TI customer in the RF business.) Are these goodies operating in the 2.5-GHz band? 3.5 GHz? 5.8?
TI's WiMAX solutions:
2.5 GHz: TRF1112/1115/1121/1122/1123
3.5 GHz: TRF1212/1216/1221/1222/1223
5.8 GHz: TRF2432/2436