Nextel said Fri. it would conduct a trial of a wireless broadband...
Nextel said Fri. it would conduct a trial of a wireless broadband service in Raleigh-Durham using Flarion Technology’s Flash-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) technology. Nextel said the test would begin later this month, offering certain customers high-speed, IP-based broadband…
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access through a mobile service. Flash-OFDM is billed by its developers as a signal processing system that supports high data rates at very low latencies over an IP wireless network. Nextel said trial participants would include employees of some of its business customers, including Cisco, IBM and Nortel. The service will offer average downlink speeds of up to 1.5 Mbps with burst rates up to 3 Mbps, which Nextel said was akin to DSL or cable modem service. Nextel COO Tom Kelly said: “Nextel is considering a number of interesting wireless technologies and this market trial will help us understand how the wireless broadband service performs, how valuable it is to our customers and what the market is likely to pay for it.” Nextel said the Flarion-based service would operate on a network separate from its iDEN wireless network. It said the trial would run for at least 6 months. Cisco is providing infrastructure support for the trial and Nortel is handling base station installation. A Nextel spokesman said the Flarion-based technology would be running on spectrum at 1.9 GHz leased from another company that he declined to identify.