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Attending WiMAX World, Day 2 of 3

 

 

From Tuesday, September 25, 2007 through Thursday, September 27, 2007 I'm attending WiMAX World USA 2007 in Chicago, Illinois USA at the McCormick Place convention complex.

Today is Conference Day 1; the exhibit area opens today.

I plan to write a daily article with my impressions. When I have a few moments throughout the day, I'll update that article - not post multiple articles. So, here goes.

08:30 - A Motorola representative called my attention to a Motorola announcement announcing that the first-ever Mobile WiMAX handoff demonstration took place last night during an analyst show and tell that Motorola held. I double checked, and Yes, last night was in fact the first-ever Mobile WiMAX device handoff between Mobile WiMAX base stations. The network in question is a Motorola-built "pre-commercial" network for Sprint XOHM, not merely a demo network slapped-up for WiMAX World. It's thought-provokng that this major milestone was took place only three months or so prior to the commencement of commercial Mobile WiMAX service by Sprint XOHM.

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Attending WiMAX World, Day 1 of 3

From Tuesday, September 25, 2007 through Thursday, September 27, 2007 I'm attending WiMAX World USA 2007 in Chicago, Illinois USA at the McCormick Place convention complex.

Today is "Pre-Conference"; the exhibit area won't open until tomorrow.

I have numerous meetings scheduled over the three days.

I plan to write a daily article with my impressions. When I have a few moments throughout the day, I'll update that article - not post multiple articles. So, here goes.

09:00 - McCormick Place is huge. While the show organizers did a great job having buses very conveniently shuttle conference attendees from the official conference hotels to McCormick Place, once we arrived at McCormick Place there was almost no indication where to go to attend WiMAX World (apparently there's at least one other conference being held at McCormick Place). It gets worse that none of the big floor maps that I saw indicated "You Are Here", so there's a lot of attendees wandering around trying to find things. There are some "helpers" around that can point you in the right direction, but only a few. There are apparently a number of different buildings in the McCormick Place complex, so finding our way around might get more daunting.

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