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Wireless Technologies, Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) & Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMax)
White Papers WiMax promises to help corporations expand business, drive down costs, increase overall profitability, increase the quality of service, and increase the number of users that connect to the internet. The WiMax technology in its current form will...
[November 10, 2005, 0:00]
WiMax tipped for victory over LTE
News The future of 4G is a tale of two technologies: LTE and mobile WiMax, but which technology is likely to win? LTE (the long-term evolution of 3G) is the next generation of cellular technology, theoretically capable of supporting downlink and uplink...
[October 24, 2008, 9:29]
WiMAX Deployments With Self-Installable Indoor Terminals
White Papers The ability to support the deployment of indoor customer-installable end-user terminals can provide operators significant cost savings that can greatly enhance the business case for a WiMAX fixed broadband wireless network.
[November 11, 2005, 0:00]
WiMAX USA: $3.2 billon and counting...
Blog After much secret dealing and many, many rumours, potential alliances and posturing, WiMAX is finally getting going in the USA. You'll notice that Sprint's Xohm idea is absent - this was the great idea that gadgets would sprout WiMAX and use it to...
[May 7, 2008, 12:15]
A Comparison of Two Fourth Generation Technologies: WiMAX and 3GPP-LTE
White Papers One well known example of this standardization effort is the IEEE 802.16e - 2005 standard for fixed and mobile broadband wireless access (Mobile WiMAX). Modern Wireless Wide Area Networks (WWAN) and wireless Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN) are...
[April 23, 2009, 1:24]
WiMax & Quality of Service
White Papers This webinar reviews the issues that are likely to influence the Quality Of Service (QOS) of future WiMax networks - from technology choice to spectrum availability.
[May 12, 2006, 0:00]
WiMAX Deployment Considerations for Fixed Wireless Access in the 2.5 GHz and 3.5 GHz Licensed Bands
White Papers This paper addresses some of the deployment considerations for a wireless metropolitan area network based on the IEEE 802.16-2004 Air Interface Standard, commonly referred to as WiMAX. This paper will focus on deployments using licensed spectrum in...
[June 12, 2009, 3:18]
WiMAX: MAC Layer Performance Assessments
White Papers This paper focuses on WiMAX since this wireless technology allows broadband communications. This paper provides here a preliminary study on MAC layer performance as well as a sensitivity study to its parameters.
[April 23, 2009, 1:24]
WiMAX delay
Talkback WiMAX is operational in China, Korea and India for around 2 years already, but in the UK we're still asked to pay through the nose for a crummy glorified dial-up service that the cellphone companies stand to benefit from.
[October 27, 2008, 6:54]
WiMax gets its security beefed up
Blog WiMax was, apparently, a mobile broadband technology in search of a public key infrastructure (PKI). Well, now it has one: Verisign has just announced it got the deal from the WiMax Forum after "an extensive selection process".
[February 3, 2009, 14:43]
WiMax advances may boost 3G
News While developments around WiMax are gathering pace, it could be rival wireless standards, like 3G, that benefit from the technology's increasing maturity. According to Dr Richard Lowe, president of carrier networks at Nortel, advances in WiMax may...
[October 26, 2007, 11:16]
WiMax trials reach Stratford-upon-Avon
News Another area of the UK is set to get a taste of WiMax this year - the Midlands will be the next region to trial the long-range wireless broadband technology, it has emerged. The pair are hoping the experiment will give them a better idea of which...
[August 25, 2005, 16:35]
WiMAX: Demystifying 802.16d and 801.16e
White Papers As a principal member of the WiMAX Forum, SOMA Networks believes that the IEEE 802.16 Standard shows great promise for the future of broadband wireless access. It is the most progressive, full-featured wireless standard available today...
[October 19, 2007, 1:00]
WiMAX still begins with a Why
Blog Nortel provided one of the better ones today, when it announced that it was launching a Voip-over-Wimax service, which was integrated with and controlled by 2G/3G mobile phone networks. But WiMAX? The big diagram Nortel showed us of how everything...
[February 12, 2008, 16:09]
WiMAX and Its Applications
White Papers WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) is considered the most interesting opportunity, able to provide radio coverage distances of almost 50 kilometers and data throughput up to 70 Mbps, and to complete wired network architectures...
[October 9, 2009, 2:01]
WiMax's unsteady progress
Leader By now, WiMax was supposed to be big, going on huge. As it is, it remains effectively stuck in trial phase and very far from revenue rich; with around 270,000 subscribers worldwide last year, the main beneficiaries have probably been the vendors of...
[June 25, 2007, 17:31]
WiMAX Technology Brief
White Papers WiMAX, or Worldwide Interoperability of Microwave Access, is a wireless Internet service designed to cover wide geographical areas serving large numbers of users at low cost. WiMAX is the synonym given to the IEEE 802.16 standard defining wide area...
[October 9, 2009, 2:31]
WiMAX Metropolitan Area Wireless Networking Technology
White Papers WiMAX is the hot new technology that has got carriers, component vendors, and equipment suppliers interested in metropolitan-area wireless coverage all over again. But to truly understand WiMAX, one must wade through a mass of technical talk...
[October 9, 2009, 2:31]
WiMAX Technology Support for Applications in Environmental Monitoring, Fire Prevention and Telemedicine
White Papers IEEE 802.16/WiMAX is one of the most promising technologies for Broadband Wireless Access, both for fixed and mobile use. This paper presents a WiMAX based end-to-end architecture and novel applications running on top of mobile WiMAX, to extend the...
[April 23, 2009, 1:24]
WiMAX is a reality in Central London already
Talkback London already has WiMAX operators but the technology has yet to become fully mobile. Mobile WiMAX will be with us in 2008 when PCMCIA cards are available Currently it is doing a good job of providing a wireless alternative to BT's SDSL and Leased...
[November 20, 2006, 10:29]
