Today we had a company come to us pushing wimax. Admittedly I've never 
used wimax, nor do I know a lot about it. From what I can see looking at 
Google images of the technology and how it's deployed, it looks no 
different than the PtP and PtMP that we all use with 900 MHz, or 2.4 and 
5.x GHz.

Is the only advantage to wimax the presumably clearer and less-used 
frequencies upon which they operate? I had (evidently mistakenly) 
thought that perhaps wimax was a code word for some sort of mesh, and 
that's how it achieved NLOS service. However in looking at the network 
layouts on Google, it doesn't look like that at all. Rather, it looks 
like that add another AP to get around the obstruction(s), and simply 
backhaul it to an intermediary AP/tower to get it back to the PoP.

Thanks
Sam

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