Monday, February 11th 2008
Intel Demonstrates Seamless WiFi, WiMAX Video Roaming
Today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Intel Research demonstrated a "first" in wireless communication, jointly developed with Nokia R&D and Nokia Siemens Networks R&D. The researchers showed a wifi/wimax heterogeneous seamless hand-over based on 802.21. This makes it possible to run a video conferencing application, for example, on a mobile internet device and seamlessly roam between WiFi and WiMAX networks, with no viewing disruption. And better yet, no user interaction necessary to go find a new available wireless network and connect. View the demo at the Intel booth, or virtually here in a blog from Intel researcher Christian Maciocco.
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2 Comments on Intel Demonstrates Seamless WiFi, WiMAX Video Roaming
also for this 'seamless' technology - All isps who host hot spots have to agree to let users from other networks on to their network without paying a service charge. so there has to be some negotiation between them about the 'hand offs' as 1 network signal gets weaker forcing the device to search for other 'free' services.
people & ISP's dont want freeloaders hogging bandwidth - im one of the lucky few who actually has 2 open access hot spots near me (yeehaw! free net 24/7)