WiMAX and WiFi Together: Deployment Models and User Scenarios - 14/11/07 |
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By distributing high-speed Internet access from cable, Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), and other fixed broadband connections within wireless
hotspots, WiFi has dramatically increased productivity and convenience.
Today, nearly pervasive WiFi delivers high-speed Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) connectivity to millions of offices, homes, and public locations, such as hotels, cafés, and airports. Worldwide, more than 223 million homes have WiFi connections, and there are over 127 million WiFi hotspots. The integration of WiFi into notebooks has accelerated the adoption of WiFi to the point where it is nearly a default feature in notebooks. Over 7% of laptops ship with WiFi integrated, and an increasing number of handhelds and Consumer Electronics (CE) devices are adding WiFi capabilities. WiMAX takes wireless Internet access to the next level, and over time, could achieve similar attach rates to devices as WiFi. WiMAX can deliver Internet access miles from the nearest WiFi hotspot and blanket large areas-Wide Area Networks (WANs), be they metropolitan, suburban, or rural-with multi-megabit per second mobile broadband Internet access. Although the wide area Internet connectivity offered by 2.5 and 3G cellular data services has been mobile, these services do not provide the broadband speeds to which users have become accustomed and that WiMAX can deliver. To read the full article, Courtesy Motorola and Intel, Please CLICK HERE. Note: Adobe PDF Reader will be required. |
