Pakistan Plans Mobile WiMax Network Rollout 165
OneInEveryCrowd writes "Pakistan is apparently ready to move ahead of the USA in the deployment of a mobile wireless network." From the article: "The deployment is a milestone in the spread of WiMax, a superfast wireless technology that has a range of up to 30 miles and can deliver broadband at a theoretical maximum of 75 megabits per second. The 802.16-2004 standard, which is used in fixed WiMax networks, is being skipped in favor of a large-scale introduction of 802.16e, which was only recently agreed upon by the WiMax Forum. 'We made the decision 18 months ago to jump over (802.16-2004) and go straight to 802.16e,' Paul Sergeant, Motorola's marketing director for Motowi4, told ZDNet UK on Tuesday. 'We've been working on it for a while, which is how we're able to ship so soon after agreement.'"
Ahead of the US? (Score:4, Informative)
Not just for the Internet (Score:3, Informative)
While 802.16e is mainly a mobile technology, it also supports "Fixed" access and mesh networking, which means that signals can be relayed from one access point to another instead of needing to hardwire every connection.
This should help implementation and penetration of the region by reducing the overall amount of infrastructure required.
Re:In dense areas.. (Score:3, Informative)
For a coverage range of 30 miles (You)
has a range of up to 30 miles (TFA)
Reality: There are PTP applications that can hit 30 miles. Users will never be on a point to point link as it would take one AP per subscriber. For mobile applications, you are looking at a range of about two miles with six access points creating a 360 degree cluster. Assuming we get half of the theoretical 75 megabits per second, we have ~35 Mb/s per AP and 225 Mb/s per cluster.
Sometimes my cable connection could get slow in my house, with my other roomates using it, and thats an 8 Mbps connection, wired.
First, I would like to remind you that it is highly unlikely that you have an 8Mbps connection. It is more likely that your connection maxes out at 8Mbps and is best effort. It is also likely that you are maxing out your upload queue which is making your connection appear slow. Lets compare your connection to our theoretical connection above.
Comcast or other cable provider.
Up to 1000 subscribers per node with 100 Mbps per node.
(This is limited by Comcasts backhaul. Bandwidth on the coax is shared)
Theoretical WiMax deployment:
Up to 1536 (6X256) Subscribers per node with 225 Mbps per node
(Most likely limited to less by the backhaul. Bandwidth per AP is shared)
(It is unlikely that they will pull this many subs in a 15 sq mile node.
The only reason they would do this is because (Score:2, Informative)
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