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Equipment
CLEAR offers several simple choices for broadband connectivity.
USB modem: Mobile users simply plug-in CLEAR’s compact, mobile WiMAX-enabled USB modem into their laptop to get online. The USB modem, from Motorola, is available for only $59.99 or leased for just $4.99 per month. Customers can purchase the modem from a store or online.
Residential modem & services : For residential service, CLEAR offers customers a wireless high-speed modem, about the size of a small book. Customers simply plug the modem into a power outlet anywhere in their home or office and connect the modem to their PC or wireless router. This enables consumers and businesses to install high-speed Internet service without the need to schedule an appointment, drill holes in their walls, or otherwise disrupt their day. The CLEAR residential modem, from Motorola, can be purchased for $79.99 or leased for just $4.99 monthly. Residential customers can also add in-home voice service with purchase of the CLEAR Voice Adapter for $15, and receive unlimited local and long distance service for just $24.99 per month.
CLEAR Spot : With the CLEAR Spot, any existing, off-the-shelf Wi-Fi device (compatible with 802.11b/g) can connect to CLEAR’s mobile WiMAX network. The CLEAR Spot creates a personal Wi-Fi hotspot that travels with consumers anywhere they happen to be within CLEAR’s mobile WiMAX service area. This $139 device is a portable, battery-powered router that seamlessly connects up to eight standard Wi-Fi-enabled devices (computers, mobile phones, portable gaming, consoles, cameras, etc.) to the Internet via a CLEAR USB modem to access CLEAR’s mobile WiMAX network.
Intel Embedded WiMAX Laptops : Numerous CLEAR-compatible embedded WiMAX laptops based on Intel® Centrino® 2 processor technology are now available directly from their manufacturers and through other channels. From Dell, these include the Studio 17, Studio XPS 16, Latitude E4300, Latitude E6400, Latitude E6400 ATG, Latitude E6500, Precision M2400, and Precision M4400. From Fujitsu, this includes the LifeBook P8020. WiMAX-ready laptops from Lenovo include the ThinkPad line: SL400, SL500, X200, X200s, X200 Tablet, X301, T400, T500, W500, W700. From Samsung, this includes the X460 notebook as well as the NC10, the first WiMAX-enabled netbook based on the Intel® Atom™ processor, available in the U.S. From Toshiba, consumers can order the Portégé® R600-ST520W and Satellite® U405-S2920.
Coming Soon : Panasonic has announced plans to deliver this year a Toughbook® computer with embedded WiMAX based on Intel® Centrino® 2 processor technology, … Read the rest
Clearwire said on Wednesday that Cisco Systems Inc would build devices for business and customers of Clearwire’s WiMax network. By partnering with Clearwire LLC, Cisco Systems has reawakened its mobile WiMax strategy in a big way.
The companies said that as part of their multiyear agreement, Clearwire has also selected Cisco as its national Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) core infrastructure partner, in other terms its supplier of Internet equipment on a national basis. Cisco plans to build new devices for Clearwire’s WiMax network targeted at consumers, small offices and home offices as well as small and medium-sized business. In addition, Cisco is aiming to introduce its first mobile WiMAX device “later this year”.
“By teaming with Cisco, one of the world’s most forward-looking IP network infrastructure providers, we’re building a robust and cost-efficient next-generation network that’s designed specifically for delivering rich broadband services,” said Scott Richardson, Chief Strategy Officer of Clearwire. “In addition, Cisco plans to develop WiMAX technology for end-user devices, which will give consumers and businesses more compelling ways to stay connected through our CLEAR 4G service.”
“Around the globe, mobile WiMAX providers continue to make great strides bringing 4G mobile Internet services to market, and we are pleased that Clearwire has selected Cisco to help untether its Internet customers across the United States while delivering high performance,” said Brett Galloway, senior vice president, wireless and security technology group of Cisco.
“Clearwire’s ecosystem of partners, coupled with our all-IP next-generation network, will deliver a true mobile broadband experience,” said Ned Hooper, senior vice president, corporate development and consumer, of Cisco. “In addition, incorporating WiMAX into our products will help enable people to move freely throughout the United States, while maintaining continuous connectivity to personalized applications and services.”
Cisco first showed interest in becoming a WiMax player back in October 2007 when the network giant bought Navini for $330 million. Cisco is now concretly in the process of developing WiMax devices for the “consumer, small office or home office (SOHO), and small- and medium-sized business (SMB) markets.” Clearwire added that it is in the process of the testing and certification of a Cisco IP NGN architecture that includes Cisco 7600 Series Internet routers, Cisco ONS 15454 and Cisco ONS 15310 platforms, Cisco ASA Firewalls, and the Cisco Service and Application Module for IP (SAMI) Home Agent. This deal is another … Read the rest
Ray Bell, the entrepreneur, former Cisco networking executive and founder of San Francisco smart meter software company Grid Net is clearly betting on WiMax as the best wireless answer to building out the smart grid.
The bottomline is to replace a passive, analog electricity delivery system with one that is two-way and aware of what is happening to it at any moment. In other words, a smart grid. There are 1.4 billion of these meters in the world but many are the electromechanical type that hasn’t changed since 1888. Bell made a better one, able to monitor energy usage remotely and communicate wirelessly with both the utility and the end user and he has some important backers involved. General Electric is manufacturing the devices and selling them to utilities. American Electric Power, which has five million customers in 11 states, and EnergyAustralia, a large utility based in Sydney, have already agreed to test GE/Grid Net’s smart meter.
But Bell system has another much more interesting feature to me, his smart meters communicate using WiMax. Intel has invested (along with GE) in Bell’s startup and builds WiMax chip sets. In other terms, GE makes the smart meter, and Intel the WiMAX chip. The main advantage of focusing solely on WiMax is that the technology has already proven its reliability and has drawn the support of a many industry leaders : Sprint and Clearwire are building out a nationwide WiMAX network, Google have invested, and Motorola and Samsung have bet heavily on the technology too.
Some questions remain, and Bell’s business perspectives are obviously reliant on the efforts of the WiMax industry. On the other hand, Clearwire would see Bell’s venture succeed as a great opportunity too. An electric meter with WiMax built in could be just the thing to bring Clearwire’s wireless Internet into homes, if not through the back door then perhaps through the basement.
The Obama administration is calling for the installation of an additional 40 million smart meter. If just a small percent of those meters use Grid Net’s software, it’ll be a success for both Grid Net and WiMax Technology.… Read the rest
