WiMax For A Wire Free World

Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access or WiMax is a leap in wireless technology giving wide are wireless broadband technology in a short span of time. As it can cover relatively long distances, it has the potential to serve everything from low density residential applications to enterprise customers. Before we get to know Wi-Max technology deeper lets cover up today the basics so we can be ready for more details.

Wi-Max Basics

WI-Max is defined as standards based technology enabling the delivery of last mile wireless broadband access as an alternative to generally used cable and DSL. It offers advantages over Wi-Fi, in terms of greater range and bandwidth efficiency. It can give speed upto 75 MBps at every station (Station are points from where wireless waves are send to other places so signal doesn’t get weak). With this speed it can cover up the whole city and make them free of wires.
How it is better than DSL and Cable Modems

DSL and Cabel Modems suffer from two biggest disadvantages low speed (you can say they have good speed but when you have to download movies and games its still very slow) and lot of wires. They need to boost up the speed every few kilometers and hence fills up cities with wires everywhere.

With WI-MAX these disadvantages are removed

Being wireless there is no cluttering around

Each station can provide a boost of 75MBps download speed which can cover the entire city easy. Imagine how it will be if DSL are going to cover everything with wires.
This also removes the problem of maintaining the wires and their connection which has definite shortcomings when it gets damaged somewhere

Even Intel has started implementing Wi-Max technology in it’s motherboard. So soon we will be seeing Wi-Max ready computers. Take a look at the image below and you will get the idea of how Wi-Max works.