Saturday, September 3, 2011

VOIP AND IP | WIMAX APPLICATIONS



The WiMAX standard has been developed to address a wide range of applications. Based on its technical attributes and service classes, WiMAX is suited to supporting a large number of usage scenarios. Table 1 address a wide range of applications.
Table 1: Summary of WiMAX Applications 
Class Description
Real Time
Application Type
Bandwidth
Interactive gaming
Yes
Interactive gaming
50–85 Kbps
VoIP, video conferencing
Yes
VoIP
4–64 Kbps
Videophone
32–384 Kbps
Streaming media
Yes
Music/speech
5–128 Kbps
Video clips
20–384 Kbps
Movies streaming
>2 Mbps
Information technology
No
Instant messaging
<250 byte messages
Web browsing
>500 Kbps
Email (with attachments)
>500 Kbps
Media content download (store and forward)
No
Bulk data, Movie download
>1 Mbps
Peer to peer
>500 Kbps

Mobile WiMAX is an all-IP network. The use of OFDMA on the physical layer makes it capable of supporting IP applications. It is a wireless solution that not only offers competitive Internet access, but it can do the same for telephone service.
VoIP offers a wider range of voice services at reduced cost to subscribers and service providers alike. VoIP is expected to be one of the most popular WiMAX applications. Its value proposition is immediate to most users. Although WiMAX is not designed for switched cellular voice traffic as cellular technologies as are CDMA and WCDMA, it will provide full support for VoIP traffic because of QoS functionality and low latency. IPTV enables a WiMAX service provider to offer the same programming as cable or satellite TV service providers. IPTV, depending on compression algorithms, requires at least 1 Mbps of bandwidth between the WiMAX BS and the subscriber. In addition to IPTV programming, the service provider can also offer a variety of video on demand (VoD) services. IPTV over WiMAX also enables the service provider to offer local programming as well as revenue generating local advertising.
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