Intel red faced after WiMAX demo fails – apcmag.com: According to the article notebooks will have this technology installed by 2008.
Intel used its Developer Forum in Beijing to name the date it would be introducing WiMax in notebooks: by the end of June 2008. But it was embarrassed during a keynote when it couldn’t actually get the technology to work.
Intel’s Senior Vice President David Perlmutter (above, right) was left red-faced after a live demo of WiMax technology in front of the world media failed just seconds into a wireless video streaming exercise.
Perlmutter had just spent several minutes describing how WiMAX would deliver “true mobile internet”, with MIMO WiMAX delivering two to six megabit per second average throughput rates.
Guess we are going to have wireless g and even to kick around for more than a while yet
I feel sorry for the poor technician that is going to be scapegoated for this debacle.
I believe that everyone that has ever had to do a demo has experienced this kind of thing. I’ve noticed that the probability of demo failure is directly proportional to the importance/number of the audience. The bigger the risk/audience the higher the probability of failure.
I don’t remember any reporting on the 10 others demos that actually went well. Well, at least one :
http://www.convergedigest.com/Wireless/broadbandwirelessarticle.asp?ID=16898