The New Last Mile Broadband: WiMAX

By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols When you want broadband today chances are you're locked to a landline connection with a T1, DSL or cable modem. WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access), an evolving standard for point-to-multipoint wireless networking, may change that for the last mile in the same way that Wi-Fi has changed the last one hundred feet of networking. Microwave broadband is actually a very old technology. Your author has some not-so-fond memories of setting up...n

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