WIMAX and WIFI Compared

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Figure 6: WiMAX vs WIFI coverage

Figure 6 shows the WiMAX and WiFi coverage. Once can clearly see how large is the coverage of WiMAX.

Wi-Fi and WiMAX are corresponding. WiMAX networks usually provides a WiMAX subscriber unit which links to the metropolitan WiMAX network gives Wi-Fi located in homes or business for local devises for example Laptops, Wi-Fi Handsets and iPhones for connections (Xiao, 2008). This makes the users to put the WiMAX Subscriber Unit in the areas, which it can be received best and still are in a position to use WiMAX network for any place within the locality. WiMAX is more similar to Wi-Fi as compared to 3G cellular technologies. Wi-Fi provides local network access for a few feet with speed of about 54Mbpswhereas single WiMAX aerial haves a range of up to more than 40 miles with a speed of about 70Mbps or more than that. WiMAX brings an Internet connection that can serve the local Wi-Fi network.
This refers to mobile stations that assume the part of the source of the network to the user; the second is the access service network that assumes two are additional base stations and constitutes ASN gateways that create the radio access. The last portion of the connectivity network that provides the IP functions and the base stations that gives the air platform for the mobile stations. The stations at the base also avail management functions, tunnel establishment and triggering, radio resources control, active host control protocol proxy, excellence of service enforcement and multicast cluster management. The inclusion of the ASN facilitates the encryption keys, resource regulation, routing to the chosen network and consumer functionality. Connectivity service network is liable for Internet connections...

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