WiMAX - Taking Wireless to The Max

WiMAX - Taking Wireless to The Max

June 2006, CRC Press, Series: Informa Telecoms & Media, ISBN: 9780849371868

An increasing demand for access to information anytime, anywhere has led to explosive growth in access and wireless technologies. The trend has created new competitive threats as well as new opportunities in every walk of life. The task, then, is to turn possibilities into realities and provide solutions that enable anywhere, anytime access to information and applications at low cost and with a small investment. Taking a coherent and fact-based approach, this book explores the space between what is known and available and what industry needs.

WiMAX: Taking Wireless to the MAX examines the evolution of wireless, broadband, and the wireless broadband landscape with exhaustive coverage of technological advances and evolving topologies. It sets the tone for the journey towards untouched wireless heights - WiMAX. The author builds a complete understanding of Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) Technologies, elaborating on past developments, present needs and uses, and future trends and markets. He lays out a road map to the future and articulates present and future applications and models of BWA with focus on WiMAX. The book also provides a detailed discussion on the advanced technologies central to the existence of WiMAX. It presents strategies for building the case for WiMAX and achieving success for the different players, including service providers and equipment manufacturers.

With market value expected to reach $5 billion by 2007 and the endorsement of some of the biggest names in telecommunications, World Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) is poised to change the broadband wireless landscape. But how much of WiMAX's touted potential is merely hype? Now that several pre-WiMAX networks have been deployed, what are the operators saying about QoS and ROI? How and when will device manufacturers integrate WiMAX into their products? What is the business case for using WiMAX rather than any number of other established wireless alternatives?
# Introduces the evolution of the wireless, broadband, and wireless broadband landscape while it discusses several issues and challenges leading to need of WiMAX
# Discusses the challenges that have led to the need for WiMAX and explores the techno-economics of WiMAX including Architecture, Standards, Interoperability, Deployment, and Spectrum
# Demystifies WiMAX and provides an innovative hypothesis for WiMAX while it explores advanced technologies which are central to existence of WiMAX
# Delineates the present WiMAX market, the market players, market drivers, market challenges, and existing spectrum issues and government regulations