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SR Telecom
SR Telecom Inc. was a broadband wireless systems manufacturer headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, and present in over 130 countries around the world. Established in 1981, SR Telecom provided urban and rural telecommunications providers with wireless systems delivering voice, data and multimedia services. As almost all large corporations,{{citation needed, date=January 2013 SR Telecom gained much of its product line through acquisitions and mergers, such as acquisition of Lucent broadband wireless product lines in 2001 and the acquisition of Netro Corp. in 2003. Netro had previously bought out from AT&T the ambitious (yet commercially disastrous) Project Angel product, the first to use advanced technologies such as OFDM and space-time coding for data and packetized voice services. The Angel product was renamed as Symmetry One. A WiMAX Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) is a family of wireless broadband communication standards based on the IEEE 802.16 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadband Wireless Access
Wireless broadband is a telecommunications technology that provides high-speed wireless Internet access or computer networking access over a wide area. The term encompasses both Fixed wireless, fixed and mobile broadband. The term broadband Originally the word "broadband" had a technical meaning, but became a marketing term for any kind of relatively high-speed computer network or Internet access technology. According to the IEEE 802.16, 802.16-2004 standard, broadband means "having instantaneous Bandwidth (signal processing), bandwidths greater than 1 MHz and supporting bit rate, data rates greater than about 1.5 Megabit, Mbit/s." The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently re-defined the word to mean download speeds of at least 25 Megabit, Mbit/s and upload speeds of at least 3 Megabit, Mbit/s. Technology and speeds A wireless broadband network is an outdoor fixed and/or mobile wireless network providing Point-to-multipoint communication, point-to-multipoint or Poi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
