Tuesday, February 14, 2012

WiMAX

WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) is a advice technology for wirelessly carrying accelerated Internet account to ample bounded areas. The 2005 WiMAX afterlight provided bit ante up to 40 Mbit/s12 with the 2011 amend up to 1 Gbit/s for anchored stations.3 It is a allotment of a “fourth generation,” or 4G, of wireless-communication technology, WiMax far surpasses the 30-metre (100-foot) wireless ambit of a accepted Wi-Fi bounded breadth arrangement (LAN), alms a city breadth arrangement with a arresting ambit of about 50 km (30 miles). The name "WiMAX" was created by the WiMAX Forum, which was formed in June 2001 to advance acquiescence and interoperability of the standard. The appointment describes WiMAX as "a standards-based technology enabling the supply of endure mile wireless broadband admission as an another to cable and DSL".4 WiMax offers data-transfer ante of up to 75 Mbit/s, which is above to accepted cable-modem and DSL connections. However, the bandwidth have to be breach a part of assorted users and appropriately yields lower speeds in practice.5

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