Source : http://blogs.computerworld.com/ WiMax is certainly the most promising wireless technology since the advent of Wi-Fi there now nearly 10 years ago.
On paper, it should make it possible to connect at high bandwidth to base stations several tens of kilometres distance and to thus ensure a constant connection at a cost much lower than those offered by the mobile telephone operators, that make their data services cost equivalent to the price of gold.
One has spoken about WiMax for a few years now, however actual users are still very rare, and often often in the state of experimentation. Things should change soon, thanks to Intel, which decided to promote this technology as its next portable platform that will arrive in a few months.
WiMax will then be proposed at accessible tariffs from such machines. The FFC revealed a document showing a compact PCI Express format card that Intel wants to get approved. This card supports both Wi-Fi and WiMax, and, the good news, will have the same format as those which we have already in our portables " Mac Intel".
The day when Apple offers this product, it will be thus possible to instal this card in older machines, just like replacing the traditional Airport cards by others bringing compatibility with the 802.11n.
Of course, it will not be enough to put a card of this type to have this WiMax service. It will also be necessary that the operators to have a licence (Free in France) so that they can deploy their infrastructure and propose specific subscriptions. However it will be certainly the case soon that there will be a stock of machines compatible with this commercially interesting option.
[translation by crispin]
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