How quickly it will be resolved remains to be seen. In Wi-LAN's OFDM, the carrier spacing is large enough so that frequency errors between the transmitter and receiver are only a fraction of the spacing, making the spacing negligible on the system performance. Thirty Mbps exceed the 10 Mbps the industry expects from 4G systems. The downside for these three vendors is network operators that were prepping for 3G networks would have to deploy new infrastructure. Flarion Technologies is propagating Flash-OFDM, a wideband approach aimed at mobility applications in cellular networks.
Analysts applaud the technology for improving reception and processing signaling with scale.
Cisco, one of the telecom equipment vendors carefully dodging Wall Street beatings, has been massaging its standard into the industry for some time now. But tentative telecom players weren't ready to give more market share to the telecom equipment giant. A lot of them didn't like the idea of the market being defined by Cisco. Hitting the Pavement Already, service providers that are using OFDM attest to its speed. T-Speed advocates whatever gets its customers fast service.