[IP] more on WiMAX vs. WiFi
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From: Steven Cherry <s.cherry@xxxxxxxx>
Date: November 23, 2004 7:50:56 AM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] WiMAX vs. WiFi
Dave,
Wi-Fi and Wi-Max are very different protocols, designed for different
network situations, and they don't really solve the same problems.
Wi-Fi is a local area network thing, while Wi-Max is a last-mile
replacement for wired broadband access.
Eventually, Wi-Fi will have greater range, and both will become mobile
wireless standards (which won't be before 2008; neither is mobile right
now, although Wi-Fi is, as they say, nomadic--you can move it from
place to place easily), but even after that, there will remain some
fundamental differences.
Earlier this year I tried to separate out the similarities and
differences in detail in "WiMax and Wi-Fi: Separate and Unequal: The
important but widely misunderstood IEEE 802.16 standard"
<http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/mar04/0304ncom.html>
Steven
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Senior Associate Editor
IEEE Spectrum, 3 Park Ave, New York, NY 10016
<s.cherry@xxxxxxxx> <http://www.spectrum.ieee.org>
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