Nokia と Intel の WiMAX 連合：その２

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unstrung にノキアとインテルが WiMAX 技術の共同開発を行う件に関しての記事が出ている。日経の記事とは少々異なり、モバイル系の に関する記載がある。

Nokia Commits to Mobile WiMax
http://www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=75524

Nokia is keen to stress that it does not regard WiMax as a competitive threat to its main cellular business. "We see it was a complementary solution," says Anna Lindén, communications manager at the vendor's networks division. "It really depends on the operator's business case, regulatory issues, and what technologies they have already deployed and will choose in the future."<中略>

A statement from Nokia notes that 802.16e technology will provide "a high-speed, limited coverage, data-only complement to the fully mobile and standardized 3G voice and broadband data networks being launched globally."

ノキアは、WiMAX を携帯電話ビジネスの相互補完ソリューションと見ており、通信事業者のシナリオに応じて必要とされるだろうと考えている。また、802.16e は 3G ネットワークを補完する、限定されたエリアのカバレッジだが、高速でデータ専用の通信技術という位置づけである、と。

のチェアマンが語る、 の標準化作業の現状については、次の通り。

"802.16e is currently in the IEEE Sponsor Ballot, the final balloting stage prior to the IEEE approval process," writes Brian G. Kiernan, chair of the 802.16e Task Group, in an email note to Unstrung. "We are just completing a third recirculation of the Sponsor Ballot and expect to have a fourth recirculation prior to the July 2005 IEEE 802 Plenary session in San Francisco. Barring any major complications during the final stages of the ballot, we plan at the July session to request that the 802.16e draft standard be forwarded to the IEEE for final approval. If successful, that approval would occur in September. Publication of the final standard would occur sometime after that, probably before year end."

7 月の IEEE セッションで、ドラフトを最終承認プロセスに提出できれば、9 月頃に標準が承認され、年末頃には正式な標準のドキュメントがリリースされる、と。