Intel: WiMax is the way to go

SINGAPORE--Compared to mesh technology, WiMax is a better platform to extend the coverage of the country's national broadband backbone that provides free Internet access to it citizens, according to a senior executive at Intel.
Speaking to reporters at the local launch of Santa Rosa--Intel's latest iteration of Centrino--Patrick Liew, Intel's country manager for Singapore, noted that mesh networking was eventually chosen to deploy the Wireless@SG network due to timeline constraints.

However, Liew said, service providers involved in the nation-wide wireless network are starting to feel the heat of the limitations of the mesh technology.

"I believe if you talk to any of the providers now, what they are finding difficult is [supporting] the pervasiveness... How do you provide a service that is more pervasive than it is now?" Liew noted.

"Eventually, they are going to 10,000 access points, they're going to have difficulty in the management so, something like WiMax is probably that will interest them."