“Organizations such as the Center of Excellence in Wireless Technology (CEWiT) Chennai, the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), and the International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIITB) have contributed major innovations to help us bring this advanced technology to market,” said Roger Marks, vice president for technology at the WiMAX Forum and chair of the IEEE 802.1r Working Group.

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WiMAX 2 is based on IEEE 802.16m, which meets the International Telecommunications Union’s “IMT-Advanced” requirements, delivering dramatic improvements in coverage and capacity that will form the foundation of the next decade of 4G technology, according to the WiMAX Forum. The group also says that it provides for huge peak (zero path loss) transmission rates—for example, up to 300 Mbits/s in a 20-MHz downlink channel—and even lower latency.

By enabling the aggregation of multiple RF carriers, the WiMAX Forum says, wider effective channel bandwidths of up to 100 MHz are possible. Wider channels and higher-order MIMI antenna configurations enable the scaling of capacity to many times that of the most advanced wireless systems today, the group also says.

The WiMAX Forum currently tracks 559 WiMAX deployments in 147 countries estimated to cover more than 620 million people across the globe. The organization has certified more than 130 devices and 60 basestations for the 2.3-, 2.5-, and 3.5-GHz bands.

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