Report: Cisco to buy WiMAX infrastructure player
Unstrung reports Cisco is close to purchasing a WiMAX infrastructure company. The news doesn't come as a surprise as the market heats up and a number of large companies, such as IBM, enter the space and Cisco is the dominant 802.11 vendor in the enterprise world. According to the report, potential Cisco targets include Alvarion, Aperto Networks, Navini Networks and Redline Communications. Cisco already has had some involvement with Redline in deploying a WiMax network in Paraguay so it could be a front runner.
For more about Cisco's interest in WiMAX:
- read this article from Unstrung
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Posted by Anonymous | October 18, 2007 - 12:54pm
It is a good thing tech giants start branching into the WiMAX arena, while technological innovations by young start-ups shouldn't be choked by big brothers. Compared with 6 months ago, close encounters between WiMAX abd 3G have surfaced more often. In view of the mobile boradband technology evolving cladogenetically,3G will struggle to keep its turf, whereas mobile multimedia will penetrate into the hitherto unforeseen segments. The treelike branching of mobile multimedia into new segments will be initiated by visionary entrepreneurs with shallow pockets, but it shouldn;t be a harvest time for big enterprises.
