WiMax: The Next Revolution in Wireless

What is WiMax?

Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMax) for short is a point to multi point, non-line-of-sight (NLOS) wireless broadband access technology. WiMax also known officially as 802.16-2004 (its IEEE name) can transfer data at rates around 70Mbps with a range of close to 30 miles all from just a single base station.

The acronym for WiMax also encompases the WiMax Forum, and industry consortium that will be pushing 802.16 as a solution. The Forum is a collection of service providers, vendors and Industry leaders including Cisco, Proxim, Lucent and many others that plan to design the definitions for testing and certifying that these products are compliant and will interoperate.

WiMax’s primary usage will most likely come in the form of MANs, or Metropolitan Area Networks. So what does this all mean? Simply put; High Speed Wireless Internet for the masses.

By Mike Houghton

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