Managing data networks

On February 17, 2010 By BP Tiwari

BY BP TIWARI I was reading the newest report from Cisco VNI studies and it is worthy to note some of the following data trends which were captured in collaboration with 20 leading Internet service providers. Cisco published “The growth of data centric devices is humongous and mobile data will roughly double each year from [...]

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LTE! WiMAX adversary or ally

On February 15, 2010 By BP Tiwari

By : BP Tiwari I was reading a recent article from beccem semiconductors who apparently has biggest market share in wimax chipset about their intent to launch a new chipset which will support LTE. Beceem vice president of business development Lars Johnsson clarified that “Beceem isn’t taking the much bigger LTE chipset market head on—at [...]

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Uplink MIMO in WIMAX Networks

On February 11, 2010 By BP Tiwari

BY : BP Tiwari The majority of the terminals that we have in current mobile wimax networks are 1 Tx in uplink and 2Rx in Downlink. The advantage of having two receive antennas in downlink allows use of advanced antenna configuration like STBC(space time block codes) and SM (spatial multiplexing ) to achieve higher spectral [...]

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By : BP Tiwari I have been observing emergence of new 4G technologies for last couple of years and one of the most talked multi antenna concepts is beamforming. BF is one of the much awaited technologies that helps operators to increase capacity in network and also helps in overall network quality by reducing interference [...]

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By : BP Tiwari The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is expected this summer to provide final approval for the 802.16m standard, also known as “WiMAX 2.” Two operators who are bullish for 16m are clearwire and Yota. U.S. ISP Clearwire, currently the largest company to offer commercial WiMAX services in the United States, [...]

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WiMAX Standardization History

On January 26, 2010 By BP Tiwari

by  : BP Tiwari The current WiMAX incarnation, Mobile WiMAX, is based upon IEEE Std 802.16e-2005 which was approved in December 2005. Another version of draft called IEEE Std 802.16-2004 addresses only fixed systems. IEEE 802.16e-2005 improves upon IEEE 802.16-2004 by: Adding support for mobility (hard handover between base stations). This is seen as one of the [...]

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Source: DIGITIMES [Friday 8 January 2010] Taiwan-based network equipment maker Gemtek Technology has begun shipping its in-house developed portable WiMAX/Wi-Fi routers to the US market, according to the company. Shipments of Gemtek’s portable WiMAX/Wi-Fi devices came coincidentally with the launch of the 3G/4G Overdrive wireless router by US-based Sprint Nextel, the sources pointed out. The Overdrive [...]

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By Nick Wood , Total Telecom Friday 08 January 2010 U.S.-based WiMAX operator Clearwire marked its first foray into Europe on Friday with the launch of high-speed wireless Internet services in Malaga, Spain. Clearwire will offer Internet access under its Instanet brand to consumers from €29.90 per month. The operator said its WiMAX network is able [...]

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Source : cnet LAS VEGAS–Sprint Nextel introduced a 3G/4G wireless router Wednesday night called the Sprint Overdrive that will allow subscribers to share their wireless broadband connection among Wi-Fi devices. Sprint 3G/4G Overdrive wireless router (Credit: Sprint Nextel) The Overdrive router, made by Sierra Wireless, uses Sprint’s 4G WiMax network, where it’s available, to allow [...]

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