Technology of WiMax

According to specialists, and marketing at Intel, in the near future about a billion users worldwide will be connected to the Internet using WiMax technology standard IEEE 802.16. What is this technology? 

The consortium WiMax Forum - the main non-profit organization dedicated to developing and certifying a new standard Wireless-broadband technology in the frequency range 10-66 GHz. WiMax Forum was founded in 2001 by leading telecom operators and major world-renowned producers of electronic and telecommunications equipment.
Currently, this organization has several hundred members, including such major companies as Intel, Fujitsu, AT & T, BT, Motorola, Samsung, Siemens Mobile, etc.

Technological basis for WiMax (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) is indeed a new protocol is IEEE 802.16, which allows for both a broadband high-speed Internet access and data transmission, as well as telephony services without the use of cable lines. Unlike other radio access technologies, WiMax can operate in dense urban areas outside the direct view of the base station. It is very important for larger cities do not need to install special platforms, and is sufficient to establish a base station on the roofs of buildings or high rise buildings, that allows you to quickly deploy a network over long distances.

Another important benefit of this technology, unlike Wi-Fi, the coverage radius of not more than 100 meters - coverage WiMax, under certain conditions, can reach 50 km. Therefore, it can be useful to such people, for whom the Internet is unavailable, or even an ordinary phone, such as in remote areas where there simply is not possible to hold the cable network or DSL. And these users across Russia a lot, so WiMax in our country will develop quickly enough and will be a success not only corporate clients and various organizations, but also for private users, for one, of course, provided that payment for the equipment will be sufficiently low .

This technology will allow companies with multiple branches (eg, retailers) to build based on its proprietary WiMax wireless network - one set of equipment allows us to obtain up to 8 phone numbers, with access to local telephone networks, high speed internet. Thus, for example, three branch companies, with three separate local area networks based on Wi-Fi, can be linked together with the central office WiMax-network. Because the system is designed to solve such problems.

WiMax-network security is provided at a physical level with specially designed chip ASIC, which are embedded in a wireless device and manage the process of data transmission over the air:
1. They protect against attempts to breach confidentiality.
2. Prevent data corruption.
3. Prevent fraud (violation of the authenticity of the source - the consumer).
4. Preclude a denial of service.