cmaenginsb
Premium,MVM
join:2001-03-19
Palmdale, CA
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Re: No WIFI replacement.
If Wimax was for the home than why the word metropolitan in the standard. Wimax was never for the home, it was to allow for the outdoor use of wireless as a broadband technology because at the time Wifi equipment lacked the potential to achieve this.
WIMAX was only billed as a "competing" technology by those who only understood that wifi and wimax delivered networkin g via a wireless technology.
It's taken so long for a wimax standard and equipment that in the meantime wifi has evolved to allow for what wimax was originally going to do. |
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wombough
join:2001-08-30
Beaufort, SC | there are two wimax options fixed and wireless. |
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xenophon
join:2007-09-17
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| reply to cmaenginsb
WiMAX is mostly intended for Net mobility on any kind of consumer device. But it may compete with landline broadband in some cases, just not it's primary target.
There will be dual WiMAX/WiFi chipsets. They will complement each other. WiMAX was never intended to replace WiFi, but to complement it.
In fact, WiFi Muni providers are excited about using WiMAX as a backhaul for WiFi sites. |
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