Forget about Wi-Fi VoIP, Vonage going WiMax

Posted by timothy on Wednesday August 3, 2005 @10:48AM from the who's-speaking-please dept.

kamikaze-Tech writes "Being reported on the Vonage VoIP Forum in an article entitled Vonage, Wimax Provider Team Up it appears Vonage is partnering with TowerStream to allow you to make calls up to 30 miles away via WiMax. WiMax, another name for the 802.16 standard for wireless broadband, has a range of up to 30 miles and can deliver broadband at a theoretical maximum of 75 megabits per second, which is more than 20 times the speed of the fastest wired broadband available commercially. WiMax serves as a partial successor to the popular Wi-Fi wireless protocol, which works over far shorter distances, measured in feet rather than miles."

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Re:interference by Anonymous Coward · 2005-08-03 11:19 · Score: -1, Troll

The number of access points doesn't make a difference - wifi access points use a clever algorithm to minimise data corruption called JJF882.1 - basically it uses frequency distortion harmonics to alter the subsystem dynamic core communication protocol. This was explained in better detail at Italian tech site jgiannotti.com a while back (link in English)