Indeed, the company claimed its WiMax Connection 2250 is the industry’s first dual-mode baseband chip. When paired with Intel’s tri-band WiMax radio, the chipset can support all global WiMax frequencies, Intel said.
Telecom gear with dual-mode support can be deployed in d mode and upgraded to e mode with an over-the-air software upgrade.
Motorola Inc plans to use the Intel chipset in its CPEi 200 series of WiMax customer-premise equipment, said Sean Maloney, general manager of Intel sales and marketing, in a statement. The first products from Motorola and several other leading telecommunications equipment manufacturers to boast the new chipset will reach the market sometime next year, he said.
The first with dual mode support, the new chip bridges the worlds of fixed and mobile WiMAX, helping equipment manufacturers build customer premise equipment at increasingly attractive price points, and service providers to break ground on upgradeable networks, Maloney said.
