Portland Gets Mobile WiMAX

Motorola will integrate Intel's WiMAX Connection 2250 into their CPEi 200 Series of WiMAX clients. Intel's Mobile WiMAX chip, formerly called Rosedale 2, is the first with dual mode support, bridging the worlds of fixed and mobile WiMAX. Optimized for cost-effective Mobile WiMAX (or fixed) deployments, Intel says Motorola, Alcatel, Navini, Proxim, Siemens and SR Telecom, among others, have announced they will incorporate the new Intel chip into their product lines. Maloney also said it has begun a mobile WiMAX trial in Portland, Oregon in collaboration with Clearwire and Motorola. The trial is expected to run through 2007.