What is WiMAX? How WiMAX Works? What Can WiMAX Do?
Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) has been serving enterprises and operators for years, to the great satisfaction of its users. However, the new IP-based standard developed by the IEEE 802.16 is likely to accelerate adoption of the technology. It will expand the scope of usage thanks to: the possibility of operating in licensed and unlicensed frequency bands, unique performance under Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) conditions, Quality of Service (QoS) awareness, Extension to nomadicity, and more. The purpose of this White Paper is to highlight and assess the value of WiMAX as the right solution to: extend the currently limited coverage of public WLAN (hotspots) to citywide coverage (hot zones) the same technology being usable at home and on the move, blanket metropolitan areas for mobile data-centric service delivery, offer fixed broadband access in urban and suburban areas where copper quality is poor or Unbundling difficult, bridge the digital divide in low-density areas where technical and economic factors make broadband deployment very challenging. In addition to these uses, this paper will highlight other potential applications, such as telephony or an effective point-to-multipoint backhaulingsolution for operators or enterprises.
