The mobile wireless industry is facing unprecedented challenges in meeting the data demands of their subscribers with their desire for fast, mobile Internet. Wireless technologies are often compared on theoretical peak data rates, but it’s actual capacity or spectral efficiency – the average realized data throughputs – is the real metric that wireless technologies should [...]

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The growth of data centric devices is humongous and mobile data will roughly double each year from 2008 to 2013″[1]. According to Cisco average broadband connection generates 11.4 gigabytes of Internet traffic per month, or 375 megabytes per day. Reports from the early 4G mobile WiMAX based broadband networks from Russian and US has some [...]

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By BP Tiwari Intel continues its commitment to worldwide Mobile WiMAX business, with plethora of new chipsets covering all the segments to empower internet based devices. Intel is currently shipping kilmer peak based chipsets which houses 2×2 11n/g and 16e WiMAX in bands of 2.3,2,5 and 3.5 GHz in pinetrail platforms. The other segment fastest [...]

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By BP Tiwari Mobile WiMAX is one of the promising technologies, and it promotes low-cost deployment and service models as well as Internet friendly architectures and protocols. This paper briefly overviews the current version of  mobile WiMAX, mobile WiMAX Release 1.0, which is based on IEEE 802.16e-2005, and expands on the upgraded version, mobile WiMAX [...]

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I am tracking NTT DoCoMo magnum LTE deployment plans in which the operator plans to have 50% of the geography covered with LTE by 2014 and deploying nearly 20,000 macro base stations  [1]. If you recall what UQ President Mr. Takashi Tanakaspan said “We emwill have 50% of the geography covered with WiMAX by 2010 [...]

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