WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access)

A broadband wireless access (BWA)

solution based on the standards recommendations from the IEEE 802.16 Working Group and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) HiperMAN group. WiMAX is promoted by the

WiMAX Forum, a special interest group with members from the manufacturing, carrier, service provider, and consulting communities.Where line of sight (LOS) can be achieved, the WiMAX cell radius is as much as 50 kilometers (31 miles). Under non-line of sight (NLOS) conditions, the maximum cell radius is approximately 9 kilometers (5.6 miles). WiMAX standards provide for aggregate raw bandwidth up to about 70 Mbps per base station (BS), although the throughput is much less due to overhead, as well as issues of LOS, link distance, air quality, electromagnetic interference (EMI), radio frequency interference (RFI), and other signal impairments. Mobile network deployments described in 802.16e are expected to provide up to 15 Mbps of aggregate raw bandwidth within a cell radius of up to 3 kilometers. WiMAX

supports a maximum signaling rate of 70 Mbps and the maximum throughput of approximately 40 Mbps

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• custom control routing
• customer access line charge (CALC)
• customer contact center
• customer-originated trace
• customer-owned coin-operated telephone (COCOT)
• customer premises equipment (CPE)
• customer rearrangement
• Custom Local Access Signaling Services (CLASS)
• custom ringing
• Cu Symbol for copper.
• cutoff frequency
• cutoff wavelength
• cut-through switch
• CVoDSL (Channelized Voice over Digital Subscriber Line)
• CVSD (Continuously Variable Slope Delta)
• CWDM (Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing)
• CWDM (Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing)
• cybercafé
• cybercafé
• cybercast
• cyberspace
• cycle time
• cyclic checksum
• cyclic redundancy check (CRC)
• D