Army to test Samsung’s WiBRO

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and a division of the U.S. Army have announced they will begin collaboration on an evaluation of WiBRO mobile broadband technology (the South Korean version of WiMAX, also known as 802.16e) over the next few months at an experimentation facility in Fort Dix, N.J.
The U.S. Army’s Communications-Electronics Research Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) will experiment with the technology and analyze its potential use in a mobile military environment in lieu of a customary, commercially fixed infrastructure. WiBRO is designed to allow users to move among base stations.
Engineers will be testing the performance of WiBRO products in a mobile environment with mobile users and mobile base stations. The U.S. Army hopes to provide its troops and command support with affordable wireless technology while in the field in a relatively short time.