WiMAX

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WiMAX

• What is WiMAX?
• WiMAX Forum
• MAN
• WiMAX Products
• Advantages over Wi-Fi
• Mobile Phones and WiMAX
• Cost
• Deployment

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What is WiMAX?

• World Interoperability for Microwave Access
• Not a new tech -gt Wi-Fi( 801.11 )
• IEEE 802.16 standard (WirelessMAN)
• Last mile -gt Cable DSL
• Wireless -gt Wide Band
• Symmetrical bandwith -gt Long distances
• 50km range 70Mbps

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WiMAX Forum

• Authority
• WiMAX certification Program
• Research new solutions to problems

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Metropolitan Area Network (MAN)

• MANltWANltLAN
• City network
• Includes
• Telephone Network
• Television Network
• Internet
• Miles of cables
• No infastructure

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MAN with WiMAX
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WiMAX
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WiMAX Products

• WiMAX Antenna

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WiMAX Products

• Desktop Modem

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WiMAX Products

• Redline BaseStation

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WiMAX Products

• INTELs fist structure for WiMAX

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Advantages over Wi-Fi

• Provides
• Telephone
• Internet
• Television
• Symmetrical bandwith long distance
• Quality of Service -gt VoIP IPTV
• Scheduling Algoritm
• Wi-Fi slow upload rates -gt Ex. Coffee Shops
  ADSL backhaul
• Non Line of Sight propagation

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Mobile Phones and WiMAX

• Different frequencies
• WiMAX and Telephone at the same time
• Antenna integrate - GSM BaseStation
• Next generation GSM technologies in WiMAX
• Scalable OFDM,
• hARQ, FEC,
• MIMO-ASS
• Most important 4G

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Cost

• End user -gt 250-300 -gt2007 - 100
• BaseStation -gt 5000-100.000

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Deployment

• Yozgat Bozlayan
• 5 schools
• No cable connection