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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. <\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

Tim Swanson<\/a> has a brief write-up<\/a> and there’s this article from The Inguirer which pretty much cover’s all there is to say:
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WiMAX set to overshadow wi-fi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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