WiBro

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(Wireless Broadband) is a wireless broadband Internet technology developed by the South Korean telecoms industry. WiBro is the South Korean service name forIEEE 802.16e (mobile WiMAX) international standard. WiBro adopts TDD for duplexing, OFDMA for multiple access and 8.75 MHz as a channel bandwidth. WiBro was devised to overcome the data rate limitation of mobile phones (for example CDMA 1x) and to add mobility to broadband Internet access (for example ADSL or Wireless LAN). In February 2002, the Korean government allocated 100 MHz of electromagnetic spectrum in the 2.3 - 2.4 GHz band, and in late 2004 WiBro Phase 1 was standardized by the TTA of Korea and in late 2005 ITU reflected WiBro as IEEE 802.16e (mobile WiMAX). Two South Korean Telcom (KT, SKT) launched commercial service in June 2006, and the tariff is around US$30. WiBro base stations will offer an aggregate data throughput of 30 to 50 Mbit/s per carrier and cover a radius of 15 km allowing for the use of portable internet usage. In detail, it will provide mobility for moving devices up to 120 km/h (74.5 miles/h) compared to Wireless LAN having mobility up to walking speed and mobile phone technologies having mobility up to 250 km/h. From testing during the APEC Summit in Busan in late 2005, the actual range and bandwidth were quite a bit lower than these numbers. The technology will also offer Quality of Service. The inclusion of QoS allows for WiBro to stream video content and other loss-sensitive data in a reliable manner. These all appear to be (and may be) the stronger advantages over the fixed WiMAX standard (802.16a). Some Telcos in many countries are trying to commercialize this Mobile WiMAX (or WiBro). For example, TI (Italia), TVA (Brazil), Omnivision (Venezuela), PORTUS (Croatia), and Arialink (Michigan) will provide commercial service after test service around 2006-2007. While WiBro is quite precise in its requirements from spectrum use to equipment design, WiMAX leaves much of this up to the equipment provider while providing enough detail to ensure interoperability between designs.

WiBro is better than WiMAX? The cumbersome and time-consuming negotiations and tests for the WiMAX technology could possibly be the alternative technique to an unexpected WiBro give up. That at least is speculation from the market researcher ABI Research indicates. During the WiMAX Forum is still with compatibility problems and the possible introduction of the IEEE 802.16e substandard employed, the Korean founder of the once dismissed WiBro technology even further: WiBro is already in a position to data on fast-moving

equipment to pass. In tests succeeded a broadband connection to a mobile device that is 60 km / h and moving between two base stations to pass.

In Asia, demand for mobile technology is particularly high. Therefore, preparation are already in, two telecommunications companies in South Korea on the large-scale are launching WiBro wireless networks. Sections commend at the beginning of the year 2006. Even Japanese government is the very open and interested in Mobile technology International Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access. Forum (WiMAX) had official tests of the WiMAX standard IEEE 802.16-2004 for the month of October 2005. WiMAX, which stands for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access. There is a new standard (IEEE 802.16e) for regional radio networks. With theoretically up to 50 km range and a data transfer rate of up to 109 Mbps (at 28 MHz bandwidth) than WiMAX the current WLAN technology, the outdoor use on-3-6 km range. WiMAX wireless LANs can transit voice data, for example voice over Ip protocol (VoIP). This is a special Quality of Service (QoS) mode planned. The WiMAX technology enables broadband connections in those regions were DSL services can not provided. WiBro is a Korean standard. These Wimax variant is mainly the broadband data with onboard devices support. According to the company's Samsung WiBro allows Handovers for up to 120 km / h and thus as an alternative to mobile technologies of third generation (3G) UMTS as relevant. For development outfitters WiBro and the Korean Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)are working together. It had the Korean government in 2002, a frequency band of 100 MHz in the 2.3GHz spectrum for WiBro was released. In June 2004 the standard Phase 1 of WiBro allows a data throughput from 20 to 30 Mbps in cells whose radii of one to five kilometers amount.

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WiMAX, meaning Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, is a telecommunications technology that provides wireless transmission of data using a variety of transmission modes, from point-to-multipointlinks to portable and fully mobile internet access. The technology provides up to 10 Mbps
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broadband speed without the need for cables. The technology is

based on the IEEE 802.16 standard (also calledBroadband Wireless Access). The name "WiMAX" was created by the WiMAX Forum, which was formed in June 2001 to promote conformity and interoperability of the standard. The forum describes WiMAX
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as "a standards-based technology enabling the delivery

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of last mile wireless broadband access as an alternative to cable and DSL".

Definitions
The 802.16 standards are sometimes referred to colloquially as "WiMAX", "mobile WiMAX", "802.16d" and "802.16e." Their formal names are as follow: 802.16-2004 is also known as 802.16d, which refers to the working party that has developed that standard. It is sometimes referred to as "fixed WiMAX," since it has no support for mobility. 802.16e-2005, often abbreviated to 802.16e, is an amendment to 802.16-2004. It introduced support for mobility, among other things and is therefore also known as "mobile WiMAX".

Uses
The bandwidth and range of WiMAX make it suitable for the following potential applications: Connecting Wi-Fi hotspots to the Internet. Providing a wireless alternative to cable and DSL for "last mile" broadband access. Providing data, telecommunications and IPTV services (triple play). Providing a source of Internet connectivity as part of a business continuity plan. That is, if a business has both a fixed and a wireless Internet connection, especially from unrelated providers, they are unlikely to be affected by the same service outage. Providing portable connectivity.

Broadband access
Companies are evaluating WiMAX for last mile connectivity. The resulting competition may bring lower pricing for both home and business customers or bring broadband access to places where it has been economically unavailable. WiMAX access was used to assist with communications in Aceh, Indonesia, after the tsunami in December 2004. All communication infrastructure in the area, other than amateur radio, was destroyed, making the survivors unable to communicate with people outside the disaster area and vice versa. WiMAX provided broadband access that helped regenerate communication to and from Aceh. In addition, WiMAX was donated by Intel Corporation to assist the FCC and FEMA in their communications efforts in the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina. In practice, volunteers used mainly self-healing mesh,VoIP, and a satellite uplink combined with Wi-Fi on the local link.

Comparison with Wi-Fi

Comparisons and confusion between WiMAX and Wi-Fi are frequent because both are related to wireless connectivity and Internet access. WiMAX is a long range system, covering many kilometers, that uses licensed or unlicensed spectrum to deliver a point-to-point connection to the Internet. Different 802.16 standards provide different types of access, from portable (similar to a cordless phone) to fixed (an alternative to wired access, where the end user's wireless termination point is fixed in location.) Wi-Fi uses unlicensed spectrum to provide access to a network. Wi-Fi is more popular in end user devices. WiMAX and Wi-Fi have quite different quality of service (QoS) mechanisms: WiMAX uses a QoS mechanism based on connections between the base station and the user device. Each connection is based on specific scheduling algorithms. Wi-Fi has a QoS mechanism similar to fixed Ethernet, where packets can receive different priorities based on their tags. For example VoIP traffic may be given priority over web browsing. Wi-Fi runs on the Media Access Control's CSMA/CA protocol, which is connectionless and contention based, whereas WiMAX runs a connection-oriented MAC. Both 802.11 and 802.16 define Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and ad hoc networks, where an end user communicates to users or servers on another Local Area Network (LAN) using its access point or base station.

WiMAX Technology at Home

Here's what would happen if you got WiMAX. An Internet service provider sets up a WiMAX base station 10 miles from your home. You would buy a WiMAX-enabled computer or upgrade your old computer to add WiMAX capability. You would receive a special encryption code that would give you access to the base station. The base station would beam data from the Internet to your computer (at speeds potentially higher than today's cable modems), for which you would pay the provider a monthly fee. The cost for this service could be much lower than current high-speed Internet-subscription fees because the provider never had to run cables.

Network Scale
The smallest-scale network is a personal area network (PAN). A PAN allows devices to communicate with each other over short distances. Bluetooth is the best example of a PAN. The next step up is a local area network (LAN). A LAN allows devices to share information, but is limited to a fairly small central area, such as a company's headquarters, a coffee shop or your

house. Many LANs use WiFi to connect the network wirelessly. WiMAX is the wireless solution for the next step up in scale, themetropolitan area network (MAN). A MAN allows areas the size of cities to be connected.

If you have a home network, things wouldn't change much. The WiMAX base station would send data to a WiMAX-enabled router, which would then send the data to the different computers on your network. You could even combine WiFi with WiMAX by having the router send the data to the computers via WiFi. WiMAX doesn't just pose a threat to providers of DSL and cable-modem service. The WiMAX protocol is designed to accommodate several different methods of data transmission, one of which is Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP). VoIP allows people to make local, long-distance and even international calls through a broadband Internet connection, bypassing phone companies entirely. If WiMAX-compatible computers become very common, the use of VoIP could increase dramatically. Almost anyone with a laptop could make VoIP calls.

What Is WiFi?
Wi-Fi suggests :WirelessFidelity,
A wireless network uses radio waves, just like cell phones, televisions and radios do. In fact, communication across a wireless network is a lot like two-way radio communication. Here's what happens: 1. A computer's wireless adapter translates data into a radio signal and transmits it using an antenna. 2. A wireless router receives the signal and decodes it. The router sends the information to the Internet using a physical, wired Ethernetconnection.

The process also works in reverse, with the router receiving information from the Internet, translating it into a radio signal and sending it to the computer's wireless adapter.
The radios used for WiFi communication are very similar to the radios used for walkie-talkies, cell phones and other devices. They can transmit and receive radio waves, and they can convert 1s and 0s into radio waves and convert the radio waves back into 1s and 0s. But WiFi radios have a few notable differences from other radios:

What's in a name?

You may be wondering why people refer to WiFi as 802.11 networking. The 802.11 designation comes from the IEEE. The IEEE sets standards for a range of technological protocols, and it uses a numbering system to classify these standards.
Other Wireless Networking Standards Another wireless standard with a slightly different number, 802.15, is used for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs). It covers a very short range and is used for Bluetoothtechnology.

WiMax, also known as 802.16, looks to combine the benefits of broadband and wireless. WiMax will provide high-speed wireless Internet over very long distances and will most likely provide access to large areas such as cities.