Submitted by Michael Glenn Williams (not verified) on Mon, 05/05/2008 - 05:22.
Apple would be smart to be promiscuous about radio technologies, if they are in such demand from carriers that they can get away with it. A design that kept the network stack well formed and allowed pluggins in different MAC and PHY in both H/W and S/W would allow such arms-dealer type of approach to design. 802.21 is also designed that way, to provide a media independent upper interface within the mobile device.
As far as WiMAX, 2009 is pretty much a make or break year for it. Let's see what happens. If it gets deployed in places to bring wireless internet (without a voice infrastructure) it might not create such intense competition against the incumbents. Let's see.
Apple, 802 .21, WiMAX
Apple would be smart to be promiscuous about radio technologies, if they are in such demand from carriers that they can get away with it. A design that kept the network stack well formed and allowed pluggins in different MAC and PHY in both H/W and S/W would allow such arms-dealer type of approach to design. 802.21 is also designed that way, to provide a media independent upper interface within the mobile device.
As far as WiMAX, 2009 is pretty much a make or break year for it. Let's see what happens. If it gets deployed in places to bring wireless internet (without a voice infrastructure) it might not create such intense competition against the incumbents. Let's see.