Motorola rolls out WiMAX gateway for desktop PCs
Though it was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show last week, Motorola's latest WiMAX hardware is aimed at business users who don't have high-speed Internet access, according to one executive.
The CPEi 100 customer premise equipment, which meets the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.16e standard, is scheduled to ship to service providers some time this year. The device is basically a gateway that sends and receives data over the 2.5 GHz band and connects to a PC with an RJ-45 Ethernet port, said Ashish Dayama, senior marketing manager for global marketing and solutions and Motorola. Dayama would not say whether Motorola has any customers lined up.
