WiMax stands for 'Worldwide inter-operability for Microwave Access'.The term WiMax is named created by WiMAX forum to refer to its definition of 802.16. The WiMax technology supports datatransmission rates of upto 70Mbps with a range of upto 48Km, much faster than Wi-Fi. It ensures compatibility between differnt vendors' fixed-wireless broadband equipment to provide fast wireless data connections between fixed points over long distances.
WiMax is the 802.16x specification for wireless metropolitan area network(WMAN), developed and promoted by the WiMax forum (Comprising industry like Intel,Nokia and AT&T), to standardise it universally , offered by IEEE, the de-facto body to authorise Wi-Fi standards globally ,WIMax will compliment Wi-Fi.
The WiMax signal could be sent as signal over a large area.The wireless signal would then be connected to a Wi-Fi box that would broadcast the signal to laptops and PDA's.
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