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A Wireless Future |
Broadband Wireless Access is one of the segments in telecoms
that is attracting growing interest.
It is the technology of choice for an increasingly
large number of operators in both new and developed markets.
The broad-based acceptance of the BWA technology is due to huge benefits it offers in terms of fast,
easy and cost effective deployment, unsurpassed flexibility and reduced cost of ownership.
BWA technology is easily scalable, providing a fast and economic solution for new broadband
capacity whether in city centre or in remote rural locations.
Thousands of customers can
quickly be connected to wireless broadband in a fraction of the time taken using traditional
wireline technologies. This is what we call Wireless DSL.
Up until now the BWA solutions have used proprietary air interfaces.
In January 2003 IEEE 802.16 WirelessMAN standard was approved as a worldwide standard for BWA.
To this end WIMAX, a non-profit organisation, has been formed to promote and certify
the compatibility and interoperability of devices using IEEE
802.16. The approval of the 802.16 standard is perhaps the most significant
development in the history of wide area BWA, opening the way to cost reductions
arising from economies of scale, whilst enabling innovation to flourish.
Just as the IEEE 802.11 standard resulted in the explosive growth of the local area Wi-Fi sales;
IEEE 802.16 is expected to do the same to the wide area BWA market giving operators
the confidence to invest in a standards driven technology.
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