{"id":1257,"date":"2010-06-25T22:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qadit.com\/blog\/?p=1257"},"modified":"2010-07-04T22:27:33","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T16:57:33","slug":"tech-demystified-wimax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/tech-demystified-wimax\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Demystified &#8211; WiMAX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">During the recent BWA auctions, the government has earned a lot of revenue to mitigate a part of its burgeoning fiscal deficit. But very few people know what this technology is and its superiority over the current technologies. So lets have a spot light on this technology.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">WiMAX is a standards-based technology enabling the delivery of \u00a0last mile\u00a0wireless broadband access as an alternative to cable and DSL.\u00a0WiMAX supports the technologies that make triple-play service offerings possible (such as Quality of Service\u00a0and Multicasting). As a result, it is possible for a WiMAX operator to not only provide high-speed broadband internet access, but also VoIP and IPTV\u00a0services to customers with relative ease. This enables a WiMAX service to be a replacement for DSL, Cable and Telephony services. It is notable that WiMAX is more similar to Wi-Fi than to3G\u00a0cellular technologies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Like all wireless technologies, WiMAX can either operate at higher bitrates or over longer distances but not both: operating at the maximum range of 50\u00a0km (31 miles) increases bit error rate\u00a0and thus results in a much lower bitrate. Conversely, reducing the range (to under 1\u00a0km) allows a device to operate at higher bitrates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p>Comparisons and confusion between WiMAX and Wi-Fi\u00a0are frequent because both are related to wireless connectivity and Internet access.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>WiMAX is a long range system,      covering many kilometers, that uses licensed or unlicensed spectrum to      deliver connection to a network, in most cases the Internet.<\/li>\n<li>Wi-Fi uses unlicensed      spectrum to provide access to a local network.<\/li>\n<li>Wi-Fi is more popular in end      user devices.<\/li>\n<li>Wi-Fi runs on the Media Access Control&#8217;s CSMA\/CA\u00a0protocol, which is connectionless and contention based, whereas WiMAX runs      a connection-oriented MAC.<\/li>\n<li>WiMAX and Wi-Fi have quite different quality of service (QoS) mechanisms<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the recent BWA auctions, the government has earned a lot of revenue to mitigate a part of its burgeoning fiscal deficit. But very few people know what this technology is and its superiority over the current technologies. So lets have a spot light on this technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78],"tags":[158],"class_list":["post-1257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-technology","tag-wimax"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9AH7Q-kh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}