Motorola CPEi-100 announced at CES

Morotola announces a new line of WiMax end nodes. The CPEi-100 is designed to be placed on the desk for location specific use. Certainly not mobile.

Don’t know what it is, but it seems that if it is a DSL/Cable/now WiMax modem the case style is a vertical format as preference. Why is that? Up to a point I can understand it for the WiMax device, the case is also the shell for the antenna. But Wifi does not need that yet that seems to be the style.

Sorry we don’t have specs on this device yet but we pass it on when we get them. But a passing thought. Motorola is moving into the Broadband over Powerline market. They have a whole suite of solutions targeted at the multi unit dwelling market. But there appears to be an opportunity for the single family residence as well.

80% of the housing in this country was built pre-CAT5. That means either new wire needs to be strung or the homeowner goes wifi for internal connections. But there is existing wiring — electrical. So why not marry the upcoming WiMax standard with BPL? WiMax is your internet connection and BPL is your distribution plant using your existing home wiring. In the Motorola portfolio I don’t see a product that matches that functionality.

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