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What is mobile WiMAX?

April 26, 2017mobile WiMAX

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What is mobile WiMAX?

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It is the IEEE’s 802.16e standard, approved in late 2005. Extending the 802.16d fixed WiMAX standard, 16e adds features to support wireless connectivity with moving clients. Laptops, tablets and PDAs fitted with mobile WiMAX cards and chipsets will be able to create and keep a multimegabit link to a 16e base station while in motion – on board a train or in a car, for example. Bidirectional speeds are expected to be in 2M to -4Mbps, over a range of 3 to 4 miles. That compares with 10 to 15 miles and somewhat higher throughput for fixed WiMAX with a good line of site to the base station. Mobile WiMAX has the bandwidth to deliver video services, as well as data and voice.