Cisco backpedals on WiMAX with Starent buy
This week's $2.9 billion acquisition of Starent Networks indicates that Cisco is backpedaling from its WiMAX focus and shifting it to LTE as the 4G underpinning of next generation mobile data networks.
Russian WiMax operator eyes GSM handover, WiMax 2 tests
Russian WiMax operator Yota will soon begin offering its customers a WiMax terminal that can make VOIP calls -- and hand them over to a GSM network when the caller wanders out of the WiMax coverage area.
WiMax in 2010: Too little, too late?
By the end of 2010, users in more than 80 U.S. cities may be able to ditch their cable modems, T1 setups and DSL lines -- and the Wi-Fi routers that go with them -- in favor of WiMax (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) broadband wireless technology.
Clearwire Woos Developer Crowd with Free WiMax
Clearwire, the foremost flag-bearer for the WiMax flavor of 4G wireless service worldwide, has launched a free WiMax network for the developer community in Silicon Valley.
Alvarion signs $100 million deal with rural WiMAX provider
Equipment vendor Alvarion will be teaming up with ISP Open Range Communications to build out a WiMAX network that the companies say could reach up to 6 million people.
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Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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