Bangalore to go WiMAX in 2007

Sufia Tippu
Wednesday, 11 October 2006 20:23

IT Industry - Market

Bangalore is rocking. Two things happened simultaneously on the same day. Both based on WiMAX technology, one of which means the Indian state will be WiMAX enabled within months.

At the two-day Intel Developer Forum, Intel revealed its WiMAX roadmap, with the launch of its first WiMAX compliant chip — Rosedale 2, which offers support for dynamic switching between fixed WiMAX and mobile WiMAX.

On the same day, the new Karnataka State IT and Biotechnology Minister, M.N.Vidyashankar, went on record to say that Bangalore would be completely WiMAX-enabled from January 2007.

At the developer conference, Intel extolled the contribution of Indian engineers at the India R&D centre, the largest for Intel outside the US.

“The Bangalore centre has played a significant role in the development of Santa Rosa, our fourth generation of mobile platform set to be launched in January 2007,” said Shmuel (Mooly) Eden, senior vice-president and general manager, Intel’s Mobility Group.

Bangalore was also becoming an important centre for future development of its ultra mobile (more portable/lighter) computers and “We expect a large portion of development work in server processors to be driven out of India,” he said.

Earlier, delivering the keynote address to a packed audience of developers, Patrick Gelsinger, senior vice-president (digital enterprise group), Intel Corp, said the India R&D Centre has already contributed to the server processor line and the centre would continue to play a critical role in future technology development.