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Wireless: WiMAX: Worth Watching

Overview The 802.11 Wi-Fi market has boomed in recent years, thanks to the efforts of groups like the Wi-Fi Alliance to educate the market about the technology. Participants in the WiMAX Forum are hoping to successfully apply that same model to the 802.16 metropolitan area network WiMAX technology. WiMAX will be useful both as a Wi-Fi backhaul technology and as a solution for enhancing coverage around Wi-Fi hot spots bunched in metro areas where there might be something to be gained by allowing users to roam between hot spots, such as in a distributed enterprise campus application. This paper explains why WiMAX is worth watching.

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Publisher	PRIMEDIA	File Format	HTML
Date Published	November 2003	Downloads	6
Format	White Papers
Topics	Wi-Fi (802.11), Mobile - Wireless Communications, WiMAX (802.16)

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