What is WiMAX?

Experts and marketers of Intel predict,that the day is near when more than a billion users around the world will be connected to the Internet through the IEEE 802.16 standard. or WiMAX data transfer technology. Therefore, the question of what WiMAX is, will not be idle at all.

The distributor of technology is WiMAXForum. It is an organization of a non-commercial type that has developed and is engaged in the further development and certification of the technology of the new standard for data transmission. Broadband Wireless technology operates in the frequency range from 10 to 66 GHz.

The organization was founded in 2001 by the maintelecommunications operators and manufacturers of telecommunications and electronic equipment. Among them, Intel, Samsung, Siemens Mobile, Motorola, Fujitsu, BT, AT & T. What is the advantage of the new technology? It allows to receive the signal of the base station out of line of sight, this is especially important for megacities, since it is not necessary to install special towers, the base station is simply located on the roofs of buildings or structures of not very high altitude.

The radius of the coverage zone is about 50km. One can only imagine what opportunities these advantages give. At the physical level, the security of the WiMAX network is provided by special ASIC chips. They are built into wireless communication equipment, data transmission control is carried out via radio. The main functions performed by ASIC are the prevention of data integrity violations, breach of confidentiality, protection from fraud (attempts to substitute the authenticity of a consumer or source).

The standard is 802.16 will work with mobile devices - cellular phones, PDAs, laptops. Therefore, in the future, the development of networks based on WiMAX technology will depend largely on the scale of investment. Hence, the ubiquity of technology is a matter of time. Now you know a little bit about what WiMAX is.