802.16

802.16 definition - telecom
The IEEE specification entitled Air Interface for Fixed Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) Systems.The 802.16 Working Group was formed to develop a set of specifications to standardize Local Multipoint Distribution Service (LMDS) and Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Services (MMDS), once promising BWA technologies that proved too costly and unreliable.The 802.16 specifications evolved over a number of years, as follows:

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