Friday, 27 September 2013

Wi-Fi and Wi-Max

Wi-Fi stands for wireless fiedility and Wi-Max stands for World Wide Interoperability for Microwave Access.

Wi-Fi and Wi-Max are the technologies to access internet over the wireless.

Wi-Fi is wireless LAN technology that operate over the unlicensed frequency band . Wi-Fi provides connectivity within the campus i.e in LAN local area network.

Standards developed for Wi-Fi are 802.11a , 802.11b , 802.11g , 802.11n , 802.11ac.


Wi-Max in wireless WAN technology that can operate over licensed and licensed frequency band . the throughput per user can be much higher than Wi-Fi .

Wi-Max can be used to connect two or more Wi-Fi hotspots . It can be used to provide backhaul to the Wi-Fi access point.

802.16 d and 802.16 e are the standards developed for Wimax. 802.16d is for fixed Wi-Max and 802.16e is for mobile Wi-Max.

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