| Imagine a single wireless technology that can:
- make portable Internet a reality by extending public WLAN hotspots to metropolitan area coverage for mobile data-centric service delivery
- connect enterprises and residential users in urban and suburban environments where access to copper plant is difficult
- bridge the digital divide by delivering broadband in low-density areas
Such a technology exists today. WiMAX.
Thanks to its innovative technology, WiMAX will offer broadband wireless access at data rates of multiple Mbit/s to the end-user and within a range of several kilometers. The same radio technology will also offer high-speed data services to all nomadic terminals (laptops, PDAs, etc.) with an optimized trade off between throughput and coverage. Ultimately it will enable the |