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more on WiMAX vs. WiFi
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 17:30:11 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Steven Cherry <s.cherry () ieee org> Date: November 23, 2004 7:50:56 AM EST To: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] WiMAX vs. WiFi Dave,Wi-Fi and Wi-Max are very different protocols, designed for different network situations, and they don't really solve the same problems. Wi-Fi is a local area network thing, while Wi-Max is a last-mile replacement for wired broadband access.
Eventually, Wi-Fi will have greater range, and both will become mobile wireless standards (which won't be before 2008; neither is mobile right now, although Wi-Fi is, as they say, nomadic--you can move it from place to place easily), but even after that, there will remain some fundamental differences.
Earlier this year I tried to separate out the similarities and differences in detail in "WiMax and Wi-Fi: Separate and Unequal: The important but widely misunderstood IEEE 802.16 standard" <http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/mar04/0304ncom.html>
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