With putting in a "blogroll" on BWIA / WiMAX News, there are so many blogs and sites that I should list that for the foreseeable (until I get every one listed that I know about - it'll take a while) future, I'm going to make this a twice-weekly feature.
Tuesday's BWIA / WiMAX Blog / Site to be added is:
Sageni - www.sageni.com
Sageni is the consulting operation of Patrick Leary, formerly of Alvarion. To those really on the inside track of Broadband Wireless Internet Access and WiMAX, Leary is near-legendary. Leary first came to my attention as one of the very few representatives of vendors that understood very early on that smaller service providers, often underfunded and operating in overlooked rural areas (the "Broadband Boonies") were going to be important in the evolution of the Internet. Leary was ubiquitous on the mailing lists that the Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs) used to educate themselves, and Leary impressed me, and many others, in trying to explain the real facts of the FCC's Part 15 rules as they actually applied to the WISPs business practices. When BWIA really took off apart from the wireless telephony industry, Leary rode his knowledge and impressive set of contacts to well-deserved promotions within Alvarion, and became a spokesman for Alvarion and the BWIA industry as a whole at conferences, FCC hearings, and much other impressive work behind the scenes. Alvarion was one of the foundational vendors of WiMAX (both fixed and mobile), and Leary was on the inside track of the rise of WiMAX.
Most impressive to me is that Leary is absolutely a straight-shooter when it comes to what BWIA / WiMAX can, and cannot do. Leary is far, far better qualified than "industry analysts" because of his hands-on involvement in real-world BWIA / WiMAX deployments -from small one-person operations in rural areas, to large urban deployments that would ultimately serve millions of users.
Now that Leary has evolved beyond the confines of a single vendor, he can offer his hard-won, real-world expertise totally independently, and now that he's independent, Patrick Leary is my primary recommendation for a BWIA / WiMAX consultant.
By Steve Stroh
This article is Copyright © 2008 by Steve Stroh except for specifically-marked excerpts. Excerpts and links are expressly permitted (and encouraged).
This article was written and posted via Broadband Wireless Internet Access (BWIA) - Wi-Fi, on a MacBook Pro laptop.
India will have more than 27.5 million WiMAX subscribers by 2012.
The global WiMAX market is projected to grow to 48 million subscribers, with expenditure of USD 3.3 billion by 2010, according to industry sources. Emerging markets such as India, Brazil, and Russia among others are expected to account for a bulk of this market. Other industry sources reveal that the number of worldwide WiMAX users is forecasted to reach 14.9 million in 2009, creating over USD 13.8 billion in service revenues for the WiMAX market. The WiMAX forum has projected that India will have more than 27.5 million WiMAX subscribers by 2012, accounting for almost 20 percent of the global WiMAX subscriber base.
To read more: http://www.communicationstoday.co.in/oct2007/wimax-the-future-is-here-831-41.html
Posted by: deepak | October 13, 2008 at 23:28