majortom1029
join:2006-10-19
Lindenhurst, NY | work
I hope it gets better speeds. 3g goes up to 3.6 down. SO for their sake I hope they can get it faster. Heck here in suffolk and nasau county they are working on wifi for both counties.
So what makes wimax better then 3g or wifi ? |
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xenophon
join:2007-09-17
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
4 edits | 3G theoretical MAX is at 3.6Mbps but the average is only 700Kbps to 1Mpbs with peaks to maybe 2Mbps or so. The first revision of WiMAX will probably MAX around 10Mbps and average 2-4Mbps - much higher than current 3G. And WiMAX latency is much better than 3Gtoo.
The WiMAX devices themselves coming out are capable of up to 30Mbps in labs, but the infrastructure won't support that yet.
It all depends on how much backhaul is fed to the site as well. Sounds like Sprint will be feeding >10MBps to most sites. They'll also be using WiMAX as a backhaul to other WiMAX sites. So they may feed over 1Gb to one site and have it feed other WiMAX sites that have no landline backhaul or possibly repeaters sitting on city lightpoles. |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | I think the 'big' benefit (at least for Xohm) is that they have ~100MHz of spectrum to deploy in, and don't have any 'baggage' of providing cell based calls through PSTN.
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Canada = Hollywood North |
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xenophon
join:2007-09-17
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| I agree. Sprint and Clearwire already own 100mhz spectrum per market for WiMAX (as well as Sprint's 3G spectrum). The other carriers will have a helluva time finding even 20mhz to do 4G, at least to get it nationwide in the US. And they'll have to spend many billions to get a smaller amount. |
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jersey7
join:2007-05-14 | reply to xenophon
3G theoretical MAX is 14.4 mbps.
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSDPA |
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xenophon
join:2007-09-17
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
1 edit | True enough, but of the EVDO/HSDPA devices currently rolled out, it's at 3.6Mbps MAX but the average is 1/3 that. There are 7.2Mbps 3G devices starting to rollout but ATT isn't supporting it yet.
WiMAX 802.16m theoretical max is 1Gbps and will likely be coming before the carriers get LTE out the door in a few years. But I'd expect WiMAX carriers to only use 802.16m for backhaul at first.
»www.dailywireless.org/2007/02/20···00-mbps/ |
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