There’s a new kid in town. This time it’s a wireless standard emant specifically for long-haulm (or backbone) links. The standard is called IEEE 802.16, but the popular name seesm to be WiMAX.
The idea is to create a technology that is designed for longer (up to 70 Km’s?) wireless links. Essentially the type of point-to-point links that we’ve all been forcing 802.11b into.
Tim Swanson has a brief write-up and there’s this article from The Inguirer which pretty much cover’s all there is to say:
WiMAX set to overshadow wi-fi
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Does this already exist?
Wi-Fi ecosystems would rapidly evolve in Asia and would aggregate into nation carriers with Wi-Max back haul architecture
But, is some hardware in place? I mean, some tryals or early buyers?