Event Coverage

Computex 2009 - Part 7

By Vijay Anand - 6 Jun 2009

A WiMAX Showcase

A WiMAX Showcase

WiMAX is vital technology in sparsely populated regions where the much longer range of a WiMAX base is more cost efficient in infrastructure deployment than WiFi. WiMAX can also transmit a lot more data at a lot faster rate, for which Sean Maloney, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Intel, was happy to showcase the bandwidth potential of WiMAX with a live video conference call from Taipei to Canada:-

 Smooth is what we would describe this live video conference call initiated by Sean Maloney, EVP of Sales and Marketing at Intel, to showcase the bandwidth potential through long distance.

Intel had a booth had the exhibition halls to showcase some of the WiMAX enabled notebooks (using an Intel WiMAX/WiFi Link 5350/5150 module). Also, surrounding them were WiMAX vendor specialists who had supporting equipment, modules and more. Here's a picture spread:-

 Intel's WiMAX-centric solutions booth.

 A trio of mini-notebooks ready for WiMAX - YuKyung S7, Gigabyte T1028 and the BenQ U101.

 MSI U120 mini-notebook and the MSI X340 ultrathin notebook.

 Acer Aspire 4810T and the Aspire One 531.

 The ASUS U80 on the left and the UX50 on the right.

 dmedia claims that it has the world's first WiMAX enabled MID device, nicknamed the M0. It has a 4.3-inch touch screen (800x480), uses a Samsung processor which is supported by a Windows CE 6.0 OS, has a 5MP camera and can operate off a tri-band WiMAX frequency range.

 This the dmedia D1, a WiMAX TV dongle.

 

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