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10/04/2005: "WiMax in a spectrum crunch"

I'm sure I've made similar points to those in this article here, in the past. Its no secret that WiMax is no more reliable in unlicensed spectrum than is WiFi. You just can't fix physical layer issues with modulation strategies and a more sophisticated MAC layer.

In other news, I heard through the grapevine that Vivato has received another wad of cash from Intel, and that Chris DeMarche and his buddy Ron are back at Vivato. They both got launched out of the company back in March, having been hired only a year earlier.

More rumor-mongering says that Regent Pacific Management put some of their own money in Vivato.

With the return of Chris Demarche and Ron Rudokas, I'd bet large that Vivato will shortly start burning through its (now quite ancient) inventory to "build out" second and third tier cities to follow the recent "land grab" mentality, in the process turning Vivato into a WISP, the working name for which I propose as "Vivastard". Click the link if you don't get the reference.

Note that I predicted similar back in May. Look for the Intel money to get a beam-former WiMax transition product out as well.

And I see the water in Spokane is still full of things you'd rather not injest. Might it be that someone in Spokane is poisoning the water?