Conformance testing

TTCN-3 analysis blueprint accent is acclimated for the purposes of allegorical acclimation tests for WiMAX implementations. The WiMAX analysis apartment is getting developed by a Specialist Task Force at ETSI (STF 252).28

edit Associations

edit WiMAX Forum

The WiMAX Forum is a non accumulation alignment formed to advance the acceptance of WiMAX accordant articles and services.29

A above role for the alignment is to accredit the interoperability of WiMAX products.30 Those that canyon acclimation and interoperability testing accomplish the "WiMAX Forum Certified" designation, and can affectation this mark on their articles and business materials. Some vendors affirmation that their accessories is "WiMAX-ready", "WiMAX-compliant", or "pre-WiMAX", if they are not clearly WiMAX Forum Certified.

Another role of the WiMAX Forum is to advance the advance of ability about WiMAX. In adjustment to do so, it has a certified training affairs that is currently offered in English and French. It aswell offers a alternation of affiliate contest and endorses some industry events.

WiSOA logo

edit WiMAX Spectrum Owners Alliance

WiSOA was the aboriginal all-around alignment composed alone of owners of WiMAX spectrum with affairs to arrange WiMAX technology in those bands. WiSOA focussed on the regulation, commercialisation, and deployment of WiMAX spectrum in the 2.3–2.5 GHz and the 3.4–3.5 GHz ranges. WiSOA alloyed with the Wireless Broadband Alliance in April 2008. 31

edit Telecommunications Industry Association

TIA logo

In 2011, the Telecommunications Industry Association appear three abstruse standards (TIA-1164, TIA-1143, and TIA-1140) that awning the air interface and amount networking aspects of Wi-Max High-Rate Packet Data (HRPD) systems application a Mobile Station/Access Terminal (MS/AT), with a individual transmitter.32

Competing technologies

Within the marketplace, WiMAX's capital antagonism came from existing, broadly deployed wireless systems such as Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), CDMA2000, absolute Wi-Fi and cobweb networking.

Speed vs. advancement of wireless systems: Wi-Fi, High Speed Packet Access (HSPA), Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), GSM

In the future, antagonism will be from the change of the above cellular standards to alleged 4G, high-bandwidth, low-latency, all-IP networks with articulation casework congenital on top. The common move to 4G for GSM/UMTS and AMPS/TIA (including CDMA2000) is the 3GPP Long Term Change (LTE) effort.

LTE is accepted to be ratified at the end of 2010, with bartering implementations acceptable applicable aural the next two years. End of 2009 TeliaSonera started bartering deployment in Oslo and Stockholm. In Denmark the 3 big telecoms are advance their network, and will accomplish LTE accessible during 2010.

In some areas of the world, the advanced availability of UMTS and a accepted admiration for acclimation has meant spectrum has not been allocated for WiMAX: in July 2005, the EU-wide abundance allocation for WiMAX was blocked.

edit Harmonization

Early WirelessMAN standards, the European accepted HiperMAN and Korean accepted WiBro were harmonized as allotment of WiMAX and are no best apparent as antagonism but as complementary. All networks now getting deployed in South Korea, the home of the WiBro standard, are now WiMAX.

edit Comparison with Wi-Fi

Main article: Comparison of wireless abstracts standards

The afterward table alone shows aiguille ante which are potentially actual misleading. In addition, the comparisons listed are not normalized by concrete approach admeasurement (i.e., spectrum acclimated to accomplish the listed aiguille rates); this obfuscates ashen ability and net through-put capabilities of the altered wireless technologies listed below.