What is Wimax 2?
Wimax 2 is the planned continuation of Wimax for high -speed wireless Internet access. It has a maximum possible speed of approximately 200 times more than the speed that is currently offered via Wimax. At the end of 2010, Wimax 2 was expected to be commercial use at the end of 2011 or early 2012 at some point in commercial use. It is a technical standard for the use of frequencies lower than the frequency used for radio broadcasting. These frequencies can be used for data connection, either directly from the user transmitters or as a add -on to cable networks such as a wide -band cable and phone connection. In the latter case, this may act as an effective solution to the problem of getting a high -speed connection from local telephone exchange to individual homes and offices without the need for expensive wiring. The Industry Association behind the system compares this to building roads on Cope with 20 lanes in the value of operation. Although the overall required space is the same, it is easier lOgistically to build four highways with five lanes before it would be to build one highway with 20 stripes.
From a purely technical point of view, Wimax 2 has a maximum speed of 1 Gbps or 1000 Mbps. During practical testing, it was achieved at a speed of 330 MB / s. The initial goal of commercial services will be to provide an average speed of 100 Mbps. This is up to 5 MB / s speeds that are commercially available via Wimax.
To put these speeds to context, commercial DVDs would take 28 minutes through Wimax. It would take 11 minutes and 20 seconds below the target speed for Wimax 2. Under the fastest recorded speed for Wimax 2, it would take three minutes and 26 seconds. Under the theoretical maximum speed it would take one minute and eight seconds.
high speed Wimax 2 comes with some potential restrictions. The main thing is that both theoretical maximum speed and permanentThe speed achieved during testing exceeds 100 MB / s, which can be transferred mostly by cabling with a home and office network. This would not necessarily have a problem for home use, where the device selects the connection directly from the air, but they could mean that the benefits are limited if they are used in an enterprise environment where there is a single access point that is wirelessly connected with individual machines.