Welcome to Your Internet Future, WiMAX

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Welcome to Your Internet Future, WiMAX Welcome Aboard Your Mobile Internet Future

You’ve fallen in love with Wi-Fi—being able to connect wirelessly to the Internet in your home, office, and from thousands of hotspots.

Well, hold on to your Internet! Soon, a new wireless wind will be blowing over the landscape. WiMAX transmits broadband Internet connectivity for miles/kilometers, reaching into more of the places where we live, work, and play.

Imagine broadband on the go enabled by WiMAX:

Engaging in an epic, multiplayer 3-D battle on a train
Video conferencing from the park
Looking up the nearest local bookstore or getting directions to a restaurant while on the move
Downloading movies while at the soccer field
Staying productive on the road without searching for hotspots

This is our future—and WiMAX will deliver it.

Mobilizing Your Internet

A Wi-Fi hotspot is like an oasis in the desert. As you travel, your notebook connects to one Wi-Fi oasis after another to replenish your Internet thirst. In between and beyond these Wi-Fi watering holes are vast expanses of dead air where your notebook is unconnected. WiMAX will make these deserts come alive with the crackle of
broadband Internet access.

What is WiMAX?

WiMAX combines the familiarity of Wi-Fi with the mobility of cellular that will deliver personal mobile broadband that moves with you. It will let you get connected to the Internet, miles from the nearest Wi-Fi hotspot. Soon, Mobile WiMAX will blanket large areas— metropolitan, suburban, or rural—delivering mobile broadband Internet access at speeds similar to existing broadband.

WiMAX is built for the future with advanced, efficient wireless technology that provides higher speeds than today’s wide area wireless technologies. It will be able to completely transform your mobile Internet lifestyle, enabling you to connect in ways you’ve only dreamed about.

How Does WiMAX Work?

Think of WiMAX as taking the best part of cellular network access– the part that allows you to easily connect anywhere within your service provider’s wide coverage area and taking the best part of your Wi-Fi experience—the fast speeds and a familiar broadband Internet experience. And combining them into a new wireless standard.

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Welcome to Your Internet Future
Mobile Broadband Brought to You by WiMAX

Contents
Introduction: Welcome Aboard Your Mobile Internet Future 1
Part 1:
Mobilizing Your Internet 3
What is WiMAX? 3
Imagine Broadband on the Go . 5
Get Ready for WiMAX 6
Part 2:
Making WiMAX Fly . 10
Why WiMAX? 10
The Joy of Open Wireless . 11
How WiMAX Works . 13
Conclusion:
Moving Your Mobility Forward 17
WiMAX FAQs 18
WiMAX Glossary 19

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WiMAX FAQs

• What does WiMAX offer me?
WiMAX is a new way of subscribing to mobile Internet access through a wireless connection, direct to your service provider. It gives you reliable, convenient broadband access on the go, for real-time information and entertainment.

• Does WiMAX replace Wi-Fi?
No. WiMAX and Wi-Fi are complementary technologies. WiMAX can fill in gaps between Wi-Fi hotspots, extending your wireless reach.

• Do I need special equipment to connect to WiMAX networks?
Yes. A single Intel wireless solution can deliver both WiMAX and Wi-Fi access to your notebook. Look for Intel® Centrino® processor technology-based notebooks with Intel® WiMAX/WiFi Link 5150 or Intel® WiMAX/WiFi Link 5350 coming soon.

• Do I need to set up the WiMAX access point like I did for Wi-Fi?
No. All you need is your WiMAX enabled device and either a subscription or pay-as-you-go plan, and you can connect to a network maintained by a service provider offering WiMAX service in your area.

• If I switch service providers, can I take my equipment with me?
Yes. WiMAX equipment is based on open standards, just like Wi-Fi.

WiMAX Glossary:

Access Point. A device that distributes Wi-Fi signals to and from a wireless local area network.

Base station. The central radio transmitter/receiver from which a service provider broadcasts WiMAX signals. Typically mounted on towers or tall buildings.

Broadband. A general term for subscription access from an Internet Service Provider at speeds of 1 Mbps (million bits per second) or higher.

Customer Premises Equipment (CPE). Equipment installed at a customer’s location for fixed WiMAX deployments.

Intel® Next-Gen Wireless-N. Advanced Intel Wi-Fi technology based on the IEEE 802.11n specification that provides up to 2x greater range and up to 5x better performance than previous 802.11 standards.

Local Area Network (LAN). A data network that covers a relatively small geographic area, such as a building or cluster of buildings, typically measured in feet/meters. Wi-Fi is a LAN technology.

Wide Area Network (WAN). A data network that covers a relatively large geographic area, such as a whole town, typically measured in miles/kilometers. WiMAX is a WAN technology.

Wi-Fi. The set of local-area mobile wireless technologies based on the 802.11 standard, with range up to a few hundred feet/meters from an access point.

WiMAX. The wide-area mobile wireless technology based on the IEEE 802.16 standard, with range up to a few miles/kilometers from a base station.

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