Anyone Seen Cisco’s WiMAX Device?
While listening to some good panel discussions at the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco today (more on this confab tomorrow) I was struck by the thought that it is now November — and we still haven’t heard as much as a peep from Cisco about its once-promised WiMAX end-user device for Clearwire’s budding national network. Sifting through reports this evening of Cisco’s quarterly earnings call today I don’t see any mentions of WiMAX or WiMAX devices — and no Cisco press release, which they would probably have if something did drop.
With Clearwire’s quarterly earnings calls coming up next week, maybe we’ll hear something official soon — but I doubt it, in no small part because I just haven’t even caught a whiff of any potential device on any of the numerous gadget-blogs that spend roughly 27 hours of each day sniffing out “exclusive” and “scoop” screenshots of any new device, real or imagined. So if they haven’t seen it, can it possibly exist?
Over the past few months at various industry events I have politely questioned Cisco folks about if and when we might see the WiMAX end user device that Cisco said, back in May, would likely be out sometime this year. In return I’ve gotten back a lot of blank stares and not one single hint that a WiMAX device was in the offing; so I turn to you, Sidecut readers — anyone hear anything? Yea or nay?
