The WiMAX Technology

What is WiMAX?

WiMAX is a forum of companies having different types of interest in broad band wireless access technology in metropolitan area networks. It consists of major equipment manufacturers, operators, chip developers and component manufacturers.

In short WiMAX introduces a new standard for broadband wireless access in an area with the size of a big city. It can be considered as the equivalent of WiFi but in a larger area and an extremely higher technology and capacity.

The equipment based on WiMAX technology can cover a city with few base stations and thousands of users.

The Key advantage of WiMAX compared to other solutions for covering a city with wireless access, is that it is a standard and this means you can have base station form one vendor working with CPE (Customer premises equipment) from another vendor. As the number of CPEs needed worldwide is in the range of millions, the chipset for WiMAX CPE is affordable to manufacture by giant component manufacturers like Intel ®.

This means you can have a city covered by WiMAX base stations and thousands of users can have devices no more expensive than $300 and each user can have a throughput of nearly 20 Mbps !!

For more information on WiMAX please visit the official WiMAX Forum Website.

At the time of development of this article, no manufacturer other than Alvarion has equipment compliant with WiMAX technology.

NetMax 3500 is the only WiMAX compliant equipment available with FDD Duplexing specification.

NetMax is the name for a complete range of products needed to have a complete WiMAX compliant network. It consists of Base station equipment, network management software, Different types of CPEs and all needed accessories.

NetMAX is available for immediate order.

For the moment please contact us for more details