{"id":5,"date":"2005-04-26T00:26:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-26T04:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbachnet.wwwmi3-ss40.a2hosted.com\/2005\/04\/26\/80216-vs-80211\/"},"modified":"2022-12-30T11:44:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T16:44:10","slug":"80216-vs-80211","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/80216-vs-80211\/","title":{"rendered":"802.16 vs. 802.11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ieee.org\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-106835 size-thumbnail\" title=\"802.16 vs. 802.11\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/ieee_logo-5.jpg?resize=60%2C75&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"802.16 vs. 802.11\" width=\"60\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/ieee_logo-5.jpg?resize=60%2C75&amp;ssl=1 60w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/ieee_logo-5.jpg?resize=121%2C150&amp;ssl=1 121w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/ieee_logo-5.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 60px) 100vw, 60px\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ieee.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"ILfuVd NA6bn\"><span class=\"e24Kjd\">Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers<\/span><\/span><\/a> (IEEE) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ieee802.org\/16\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">802.16<\/a> protocol is currently the dominant protocol suite for broadband wireless <a title=\"Networking hardware\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Networking_hardware\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia noreferrer\">networking equipment<\/a> used in public deployments. 802.16 is IP, not Ethernet, allowing longer distances than the more widely known 802.11 wireless LAN.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wi-fi.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-106838 size-thumbnail\" title=\"802.11 wireless LAN\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/wifi_icon-2.jpg?resize=75%2C47&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"802.11 wireless LAN\" width=\"75\" height=\"47\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/wifi_icon-2.jpg?resize=75%2C47&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/wifi_icon-2.jpg?w=124&amp;ssl=1 124w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 75px) 100vw, 75px\" \/><\/a>802.16 has a range of up to several kilometers. 802.16 allows for the strict reservation of bandwidth and <a title=\"Quality of service\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quality_of_service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener wikipedia noreferrer\">QoS<\/a>. 802.16 uses polling and not the contention access method found in 802.11. 802.16 allows for automatic adaption\u00a0of radio operating parameters to meet changing traffic loads and interference levels.<\/p>\n<p>The 802.16 protocol suite includes several millimeter microwave frequency secondary standards.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10GHz to 66GHz &#8211; 802.16<\/li>\n<li>2GHz to 11GHz &#8211; 802.16a<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A mobility standard is in the works &#8211; 802.16e<\/p>\n<p>8<a href=\"http:\/\/ccm.net\/contents\/808-wimax-802-16-worldwide-interoperability-for-microwave-access\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-106842\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/wimax_logo.png?resize=100%2C44&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"44\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/wimax_logo.png?resize=75%2C33&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/wimax_logo.png?w=150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a>02.16 equipment is certified for interoperability by WiMax (<a title=\"WiMAX\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WiMAX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener wikipedia noreferrer\">Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access<\/a>). So far only a handful of pre-standard products are available and WiMax has not certified any 802.16 products.<\/p>\n<h6>Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/siskomb.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/23\/network-development\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Network Development<\/a> (siskomb.wordpress.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Ralph Bach\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/new-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0<a title=\"Bach Seat\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. 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Email the Bach Seat\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:\/\/bach.seat@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IEEE 802.16 is the dominant protocol suite for public broadband wireless WiMax networking is IP range of KMs &#038; QoS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[3281,1840,1839,13,1174,76,783,1642,579,110,25],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wireless","tag-3281","tag-802-11","tag-802-16","tag-broadband","tag-ethernet-2","tag-ieee","tag-internet-protocol","tag-quality-of-service","tag-wi-fi-2","tag-wimax","tag-wireless"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118424,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/118424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}