WiMAX

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WiMAX

• By Damon Staples

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What is WiMax?

• Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access .
  The Forum describes WiMAX as "a standards-based
  technology enabling the delivery of last mile
  wireless broadband access as an alternative to
  cable and DSL."

• This was chosen because I feel like WiMax is used
  a lot and is a great
• alternative to cable and DSL for the last
  mile.
• Last Mile - is the final leg of delivering
  connectivity from a communications provider to a
  customer.

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How Does WiMAX Works

• It has two parts , a tower and receiver. A WiMAX
  tower station can connect directly to the
  Internet using a high-bandwidth, wired connection
  (for example, a T3 line). It can also connect to
  another WiMAX tower using a line-of-sight,
  microwave link. This connection to a second tower
  (often referred to as a backhaul), along with the
  ability of a single tower to cover up to 3,000
  square miles, is what allows WiMAX to provide
  coverage to remote rural areas.

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Is It Better than ?

• WiMAX would operate similar to WiFi but at higher
  speeds, over greater distances and for a greater
  number of users. WiMAX could potentially erase
  the suburban and rural blackout areas that
  currently have no broadband Internet access
  because phone and cable companies have not yet
  run the necessary wires to those remote
  locations.

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Applications

• Cell Phones
• T-Mobile is using WiMax to underpin a service
  that will provide high-speed wireless
  connectivity to passengers on board trains.

• Computers
• IBM uses it as a part of their wireless
  connection.

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What is needed.

• It needs a device that is capable of receiving a
  signal and a Radio Frequency.

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What I think about WiMax

• I think that this bit of technology is very nice
  and can be a lot more helpful than the other ways
  of accessing a wireless connection.

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Research

• www.wimaxforum.org