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A number of WiMAX networks are in operation, each having transformed the region where they were implemented. Major
initiatives are the M-Taiwan Program, Eratech Argentina and the soon to be launched XOHM, USA.
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Year 2008 is one when wave 2 certified devices will be available and is rightly entitled to be called the year of Mobile
WIMAX. WiMAX networks based on IEEE 802.16e technologies are set to transform the way internet is used today, especially in
mobile devices.
From being an overlay to voice networks, broadband internet will now be at the core networks. These networks
will use IPv6 and IETF protocols making them completely open.The air interfaces are based on OFDMA-TDD which are now part
of the IMT 2000 and are based on the IEEE802.16e networks.
What implications does it have on the use of spectrum? What will be the architecture of new devices which are natively
designed to operate on Mobile WiMAX networks? What type of software will they support? How will they interface to the existing
networks?
How can you be best prepared for the new world both as a user a and as an operator? How do you take advantage of the
new technology by having new applications and services which are disruptive to new networks? What type of business sense does
it make to plan for such networks today? Which regions to of the world are best suited for such applications?
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Mobile WiMAX will transform the Applications world.
“There are so many applications on the Web that are
just pent up, waiting to come to mobile devices.”
-Sean Malony, Intel Corporation
The new devices will not be constrained by bandwidth or low resolution videos, frozen frames or online music playing
intermitantly.
Mobile TV
OFDMA-TDD, the technology used in Mobile WiMAX has been adopted by the World Radio Conference, Nov 2007 as one of the
approved air interfaces under IMT-2000.
IEEE 802.16
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