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WiMax Formed To Promote 802.16 Standard

Posted by timothy on from the is-standard-the-right-word dept.

The Original Yama writes "Intel, Nokia, Proxim, and a bunch of other companies have launched WiMax, a non-profit group founded to certify and promote the IEEE 802.16 wireless networking standard. What's interesting about this standard is that it allows "up to 31 miles of linear service area range and allows users connectivity without a direct line of sight to a base station," all at a shared speed of 70Mbps. This simultaneously blows away 3G mobile and 802.11 technologies."

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  1. WiMax Sminax! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Which
    is
    the
    real
    gaper!

  2. this is backhaul technology by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    and not a user-to-point technology. And old -- this was announced days ago. Nothing to see here, except the ignorance of the submitter and the editors.