Samsung's WiBro ACR (Access Control Router)

Tom Jasny, VP for Wireless Systems and Broadband at Samsung Telecommunications America, talks about WiBro

WiBro World #2

Dallas, Texas
September 28, 2005

By Marc Strassman
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A conversation with Tom Jasny, VP for Wireless Systems and Broadband at Samsung Telecommunications America Samsung, about WiBro

As recently reported in a WiBro World article entitled "Sprint-Nextel and Samsung announce domestic U.S. WiBro testing agreement," an agreement has been announced between Sprint and Samsung Telecommunications America to work together ”to test the IEEE 802.16e standard and drive the development of advanced wireless broadband services."

You can read the details of this agreement in this press release from Sprint.

In order to provide visitors to the WiBro World web site with more information about this upcoming test, as well as with a primer in WiBro and some first-hand and direct information about this exciting new technology from one of the partners in this trial, WiBro World spoke today with Tom Jasny, VP for Wireless Systems and Broadband at Samsung Telecommunications America, about all aspects of the emerging WiBro implementation of mobile broadband wireless access.

You can listen to that conversation with the Samsung spokesperson, in its 33 minute and 22 second entirety, by clicking here.

For more information from Samsung about its WiBro technology, click here.

Some WiBro background links

You can get a good start towards understanding WiBro from the wiki article "WiBro".

For a comprehensive and well-illustrated introduction to WiBro from Soon Young Yoon at Samsung Electronics Co, Ltd.'s Telecom R&D Center, go to his September 10, 2005, presentation : "Introduction to WiBro Technology."

A very good briefing on WiBro is provided in a November 9, 2004, presentation prepared by Yong Kuan Loong, a consultant with Technology Group, IDA (Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore), entitled "WiBro Portable Internet."
For a posting from Taiwan about a WiBro presentation on June 15, 2005, in Singapore, that includes information clarifying the relationship between WiBro and WiMAX, go to "Samsung WiBro to be launched by April 2006 in S.Korea."

To access an August 29, 2004, press release from Samsung about WiBro "hand-over technology," the transfer of connectivity from one base station to another while WiBro users speed along their way, go to: "SAMSUNG Demonstrates WiBro Hand-over Technology."

 



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