Nortel's WiMax on steroids delivers super-fast wireless, super cheaply

Although the US is really looking to 2008 before getting any sort of
WiMax action, Nortel has been showing off its MIMO-powered version at
the WiMax World show in Boston.

The company reckons combining the MIMO multiple-antenna approach with
802.16e wireless goodness means we could all be ditching both our home
DSL connections and our attraction to crappy coffee shops if things
work out. The reason? Nortel's so-called 4G wireless broadband is
efficient and supposed to deliver bits at up to three times the speed
of regular WiMax.

While exactly how fast that might be is unclear still, Nortel's deal
clincher could well lie in the fact that its efficiency allows
operators to build substantially less-dense networks that make it far
cheaper overall (and, therefore, per user) to deliver streaming video,
VoIP or whatever. - Jonny Hiratsuka

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