Wireless Wide Area and Access Networks
The demand for bandwidth is so great, and the problem of getting sufficient quantities across the last mile and into homes and businesses is so serious, that vendors are developing an array of solutions that use wireless technologies. We'll discuss three categories very briefly: wireless local loops (WLLs), MMDS (Multichannel Multipoint Distribution System) and LMDS (Local Multipoint Distribution System), and satellite links. An alternative approach, the use of third-generation (3G) cellular networks, will be described in the concluding chapter.
Wireless approaches don't fit neatly into our previous taxonomy. The wireless local loop is the most straightforward since it will most likely be marketed as simply ...
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