WiMAX and WiBRO

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Permalink Reply by Michael Wolleben on July 25, 2008 at 9:12am

Here is a good website on WiBRO - http://www.wibro.or.kr/new/overview01.jsp

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Permalink Reply by Jeff Orr on July 28, 2008 at 2:21pm

Bassem,

WiBro is the name of the mobile WiMAX service in South Korea. It is not a technology itself. Think of WiBro the same way you'd think about XOHM from Sprint Nextel or Wateen Home in Pakistan.

Originally, WiBro (Wireless Broadband) was a Korean-developed technology for mobile broadband. In about 2004, the Korean government merged its proprietary efforts with those of IEEE and ETSI to create the 802.16e-2005 standard that is the basis for mobile WiMAX today.

The WiBro service is somewhat unique in that it uses an amount of spectrum (8.75 MHz) unlike any other country (typically 3.5, 5, 7, or 10 MHz). WiMAX Forum approved a specific certification profile that caters to the Korean allocation in its Wave 1 efforts.

The official description and timeline about the relationship between Wi... can be found online at the WiMAX Forum website.

Best regards,

-Jeff Orr
ORR Technology

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Permalink Reply by Bassem Houballah on July 29, 2008 at 5:04am

Hi Jeff,

thanks for that clarification, can you please verify the URL ? it's giving me an error and when i searched on wimax forum, it returned me hundreds of results.

thanks

Jeff Orr said:

Bassem,

WiBro is the name of the mobile WiMAX service in South Korea. It is not a technology itself. Think of WiBro the same way you'd think about XOHM from Sprint Nextel or Wateen Home in Pakistan.

Originally, WiBro (Wireless Broadband) was a Korean-developed technology for mobile broadband. In about 2004, the Korean government merged its proprietary efforts with those of IEEE and ETSI to create the 802.16e-2005 standard that is the basis for mobile WiMAX today.

The WiBro service is somewhat unique in that it uses an amount of spectrum (8.75 MHz) unlike any other country (typically 3.5, 5, 7, or 10 MHz). WiMAX Forum approved a specific certification profile that caters to the Korean allocation in its Wave 1 efforts.

The official description and timeline about the relationship between Wi... can be found online at the WiMAX Forum website.

Best regards,

-Jeff Orr
ORR Technology

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Permalink Reply by Jeff Orr on July 29, 2008 at 9:36am

Hi Bassem,

I clicked on the link in my post and it worked for me -- it's a PDF file from the White Papers page of the WiMAX Forum website if that helps clarify.

Best regards,

-Jeff Orr

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