It was August, and Su Yan, who was accompanying Wang Xueba in the hospital to give birth, suddenly noticed that the news of the day that Zhao Bailu summarized for himself today contained a rather interesting piece of news.

That is, Intel held a strange press conference, and suddenly spent a large part of the press conference mentioning its views on wimax.

According to the news in the United States, Intel said that it has recently conducted a lot of new research on wimax and made major breakthroughs, believing that this is a future communication technology full of potential.

Wimax came into public view around 2004, when Agilent Technologies, a major member of the wimax forum, launched the first WiMAX-based solution to the market in November 2004. With its innovative technology

, with unparalleled professional experience and outstanding customer support capabilities, Agilent quickly established its leading position in the WiMAX field. Therefore, Agilent has high market recognition.

Similarly, after the launch of wimax, the number of members of the wimax forum has exceeded 450 forum members and the number of members continues to grow, including Vendors: Alcatel-Luortel, NEs, Huawei

Chip manufacturers: Intel, Run, Sequans, TI, Philips Semiductor

Content/application providers: Microsoft, Disney, Warner Music

Operators: AT&T, BellSouth, BT, KT, Deuts, Fraele, SprieliaSonera, Oras, ysia, KDDI…

It can be said that the lineup is quite luxurious.

But in the beginning, wimax was essentially an access technology, and some people vividly called it an enhanced version of wifi. So in the first few years, everyone regarded wimax as an important extension of broadband, and did not move in the direction of communication standards.

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It was not until this year that there were various opinions, and there were more interpretations of wimax, but it was really after Intel took the lead in vigorously developing it as a communication standard after this Intel conference.

Intel's statement this time actually didn't say much, but in fact it was taking the lead. In the next period of time, it is obvious that many articles about wimax have appeared in the United States.

There are some other operators and communication providers in Europe who must go against the wimax camp. After all, most of them are traditional communication companies. They have been relying on communication since their debut. But now you are engaged in information technology and computers.

They want to come out and compete with us for food. Isn’t this unreasonable!

So just like before, Nokia was the first to jump out and say that wimax was not working at all. Starting from the Intel press conference, Nokia and Intel started a year-long war of words over wimax.

By the beginning of 2007, the current cooperation between the two companies, including the hsdpa notebook plan, the next-generation Centrino platform 3G module research and development and other projects, all collapsed. Even Intel's smartphone chip project Nokia also withdrew due to the problem of WiMAX between the two parties.

It has become completely deadlocked in the past few years.

There is certainly no such clear opposition to wimax in Asia as there is in Europe. Countries including Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, etc. are all watching the show. However, at the beginning, everyone was in a wait-and-see mode. As things progressed, some people could not sit still.

The first one to jump out in Asia was Samsung. Not long after Nortel Networks joined the wimax camp, Samsung also joined the wimax camp.

As for Oceania, Australia joined the wimax camp without hesitation. However, according to past history, Australia was the first to realize that it had been cheated and jumped out to scold wimax. I don’t know what will happen in this life.

However, Su Yan has no intention to care about those disputes at this time. He is currently waiting anxiously outside the hospital's operating room.

It wasn't until mid-November that a piece of news reached Su Yan's email. The biggest supporter of wimax in Asia appeared, and that was Wanwan.

After Su Yan returned the child in his arms to Wang Xueba, he opened the email and took a look. There were six global companies in Wanwan, including Wemax Telecom, Far EasTone Telecom, Dazhong Telecom, Datong Telecom, and Vinda Super Shun Telecom.

All operators have applied for wimax licenses, and the entire Bay Area is simply betting on wimax with all its strength.

Although Su Yan saw in the email that many local experts in Wanwan have raised doubts, thinking that wimax is not that good and conflicts with Wanwan's original 3G development. Such a desperate move is too risky, but those experts

The general trend cannot be stopped, and Wanwan fully supports the development of wimax in Wanwan.

In the past, Wanwan bet on Wimax almost without reservation. After Wimax was exposed and went cold, it was found that it could not even be saved. The industrial structure of Wimax was established and the frequency bands were allotted. Is it difficult to overthrow it?

Do you want to start over? The key is that even if you overthrow it and start over, it will be too late to join any camp at that time.

In 2012, six operators in Taiwan Province found that after six years of hard work, the total number of wimax users in Taiwan Province did not even reach 150,000.

Taiwan’s entire industry investment in this field is as high as US$50 billion.

With the decline of Wimax, the communication industry of BayWan also fell into decline. In those few years, it happened to catch up with Samsung's development of LCD screens. From then on, only semiconductors were the only remaining three major industries of BayWan.

And now with the mainland's emphasis on and development of semiconductors, it is estimated that only Pineapple will be able to take action in the future.

Maybe in the future, Wanwan will use pineapples to negotiate with the mainland?

In addition to Wanwan's plan to seize the opportunity, Spriel, the third largest operator in the United States, officially released wimax wireless technology. This is the first operator in the United States to release wimax wireless technology. Spriel announced in August this year that it will cost US$3 billion.

The construction of wimax network is now officially released.

Just a few days after Spriel officially released wimax wireless technology, Motorola held a press conference. At the press conference, Motorola CEO Zander said that the Internet is becoming mobile, and Motorola firmly believes that wimax will become the next generation network.

, Motorola will provide a new generation of chips, mobile phones and consumer electronic equipment for this purpose, fully supporting wimax.

After Motorola's statement, Intel took action again. This time Intel released more research and development results, saying that wimax has huge technical advantages, including longer transmission distance and faster broadband access.

According to data provided by Intel, Wimax can achieve a wireless signal transmission distance of 50 kilometers, and the network coverage area is 10 times that of 3G transmission towers. WiMax can provide a maximum access speed of 70m, which is 30 times that of 3G.

In addition, there are excellent last-mile access services, multimedia communication services, and low cost. The introduction, which lasted for more than 2 hours, put Wimax in the sky.

After all the boasting, Intel gave its final attitude. Intel will firmly work with spiel to promote the development of wimax.

A few days after this, Intel came out again and announced that it would cooperate with Motorola, IBM and other companies to develop WiMax. They would first invest US$900 million.

For a time, wimax appeared on the front pages of major American technology magazines and became a hot topic in the IT industry. Under the operation of Intel and other companies, wimax, an access technology, entered the stage of history with an interesting identity.
Chapter completed!