Table of Contents
- Executive Summary
- Access
- Why WiMAX?
- Objections to WiMAX
- WiMAX is not Wi-Fi
- WiMAX Components
- Relationship of WiMAX Range and Throughput for School Applications
- Fixed vs. Mobile WiMAX
- Why backhaul is important
- Wireless Backhaul Considerations
- Comparisons with Fiber
- Spectrum Considerations
- Access Conclusion
- Applications: The Doctor is Always In
- Taiwan: WiMAX and EMRs
- Sweden: WiMAX-enabled Healthcare on the Islands
- Relationship of Connectivity and Productivity
- Applications: Generic
- T1/DS3 Substitute = converged voice + data
- Voice (telephony): the "killer app" for WiMAX
- Disaster Recovery
- Combating high telecom costs and/or Building Diversity
- Applications Specific
- Video conferencing and training
- Home health care monitoring
- Mobile or remote health care vans
- Ambulance services
- Enabling video compression technologies: the other half of the equation
- HD at 1 Mbps?: HD recording and streaming live anywhere, any time
- Standards
- Cameras
- Audio Factors
- Echo Cancellation
- The Audio Secret Sauce: Compression Algorithms and "wideband"
- Applications Video and WiMAX
- Video conferencing
- Distance learning and training of rural or remote medical professionals
- Telemedicine or remote check up via high definition video
- The implications for WiMAX-based HD video services
- Medical Imaging
- Affordability
- WiMAX is inexpensive relative to other technologies
- Savings on Existing Expenditures
- Conclusion
- About the Author
Figures
- Figure 1. The 3 elements that comprise a telecommunications network:
Access, switching and transport (backhaul)
- Figure 2. Wi-Fi serves a coffee shop or home. WiMAX serves a city
- Figure 3. WiMAX nomenclature: base station and subscriber station
- Figure 4. WiMAX base station and antenna combinations
- Figure 5. WiMAX access or subscriber devices
- Figure 6. Line of sight offers better range and throughput than non line
of sight
- Figure 7. Link budget illustrated
- Figure 8. backhaul connects WiMAX base stations to a larger managed IP
network
- Figure 9. This IS the doctor' s office and the doctor is ALWAYS in: EMRs
accessible on a WiMAX-enabled smartphone. Why don' t we have this?
- Figure 10. Networking and the work place: the geographic expansion of
enterprise telecommunications services
- Figure 11. WiMAX services negate the need for legacy telco T1 services
- Figure 12. WiMAX supports healthcare voice and data
- Figure 13. WiMAX provides diverse path to enable disaster recovery
- Figure 14. Destroyed telephone central office, 140 West Street, NYC,
across from world Trade Center, September 15, 2001
- Figure 15. WiMAX can enable shopping for best price on bandwidth, provides
competition to other providers
- Figure 16. Mobile healthcare vans can be networked via WiMAX
- Figure 17. The networked ambulance can save lives
- Figure 18. WiMAX can support HD video with a laptop sized encoder and soda
can sized camera
- Figure 19. Advances in compression technology and WiMAX make 1 Mbps HD
video possible
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