Mobile WiMax Wave 2 tested for live HD streaming!

Mobile WiMax Wave 2 tested for live HDTV streaming!

SKtelecom, the biggest telecommunications in Korea who also runs Cyworld, has just finished testing Mobile WiMax Wave 2 for HD live streaming.  They have successfully streamed a full length HD quality movie.

Theorectically, the new WiMax Wave 2 is capable of 37.44Mbps download speeds and 10.08Mbps upload speeds.

In the test, a 700MB movie file was downloaded within just 2 minutes and 30 seconds.

Using MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) technology, WiMax Wave 2 supposedly about twice faster than the exisitng WiMax.  Soon, the WiMax Wave 2 service will be available all over Korea.

via naver (translated by Zedomax)

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