Intro to Broadband Wireless and 802.16 WiMAX

Training Format: e-Topic
Course Code: WIR291

Take 5 Minutes for free

$95.00

$145.00

Description

Fixed/Portable WiMAX provides wide area broadband wireless access to fixed or portable users, much like Wi-Fi except covering cells comparable to typical cellular coverage. Mobile WiMAX was the first wide area broadband network supporting users at vehicular speeds and using the 4G OFDMA technology. Although traditional cellular service providers are also deploying next generation networks based on 4G OFDMA technology, Mobile WiMAX was the first commercial deployment of this technology and thus got a head start in the industry. Furthermore, since Intel has incorporated WiMAX in its chip sets, numerous products, including laptop computers, come equipped with WiMAX capability just as they do with Wi-Fi access. Many wireless broadband service providers around the world are also deploying WiMAX, e.g., Clearwire in the U.S. WiMAX may be deployed by service providers as competition or as an alternative to cellular broadband or it could be deployed as a complementary service to cellular broadband.

This course is intended to introduce the fundamental 802.16 WiMAX concepts, help you to understand the competitive and/or complementary role that WiMAX is capable of playing, and lay the foundation for more technical detail in other units on 802.16 Fixed/Portable and Mobile WiMAX.

Prerequisites

Suggested prerequisite TRA courses:

Overview of 802 Wireless Introduction to 3G and Mobile Internet Cellular Call Basics Cellular Access Technologies Cellular Radio Basics Fundamentals of Electromagnetic Energy and Radio Transmission

Course Outline

WIR291: Intro to Broadband Wireless and 802.16 WiMAX

WiMAX and Broadband Wireless Technologies
WiMAX Market Opportunities
Licensed and Licensed-Exempt Spectrum
The WiMAX Forum