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Another WiMAX sceptic stands forth at Cisco
by Staff Writer | posted on 23 June 2005
Cisco has kicked off its "Networkers 2005" conference in Las Vegas by claiming that it will be building billion dollar startup technology divisions - but it won't be doing WiMAX in any of those, according to chief technology officer Charles Giancarlo.
According to Tom Sanders at Networkers 2005 in Las Vegas, Giancarlo told his audience that "The promise of WiMax wireless wide area networking is largely overrated" and that since ninety-eight per cent of the population of the developed world "is going to be highly wired, we do not think that fixed wireless for the last mile makes a lot of sense."
Sanders reports that Cisco accepts that WiMax can provide internet services in rural areas that do not currently have access to wired networking. "But in the developed world such areas are a few and far between," Giancarlo said.
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