[LINK] EVDO, Navini, Flarion and/or WiMax?

[rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au]

Alphabet soup works against technical understanding...

 >Telstra had trialled the Navini standard used by Sydney wireless 
ISPUnwired
...Navini is a vendor, not a standard...

 >and continued to experiment with the 802.20 Flarion wireless broadband 
standard,
...802.20 is a standard, not a vendor, Flarion vice-versa, and 802.20 is 
only barely begun (two documents complete in the suite of standards, I 
think?)...
<>
 >802.11-based WiFi or the newer 802.16 WiMax standards were also possible
 >contenders for wireless broadband to the home, he said.

WiMax != 802.16, although 802.16 forms part of the WiMax set of 
documents. WiMax is (mostly) a marketing co-operative with some interop 
tests; it's not defining things like the transmission standards. Navini 
(at top) uses 802.16 and is a member of WiMax, but it gets separated out 
as a somehow-different thing.

Yes, I know. Useless nit-picking, it doesn't matter if the public is 
misinformed, all we need to do is consume the stuff. I'll just go fetch 
the wallet now, and buy some Flarion to put on the roses...

RC