WIMAX vs LTE

WIMAX vs LTE

According to the huge effects of broadband internet in the past and also the attainment of mobile phone. So, today the point of broadband is very important that why WIMAX an LTE were interested and argued about the best technology.

Both WIMAX and LTE were 4G technology which aim to improve the limitations of 3G technology or third generation technology. WIMAX and LTE were officially accepted to be IMT-2000* or (International Mobile Telecommunications of year 2000). WIMAX gains more competitive advantage than LTE because 802.16e was already achieved the standard for a period of time, while the standard of LTE still be in process.
However, these two technologies have the important difference e.g. WIMAX is on the standard of IEEE while LTE was developed on 3GPP. The standard of IEEE is open system more than 3GPP.
The main difference of them is the usage of network; WIMAX required new technology while LTE is evolved from the old one that make LTE gain more competitive advantage because of the exiting users of the old network.
And another important factor is frequency; About half of populations in the world were located in the place that already received the license of using WIMAX such as, TDD 2.3 GHz, 2.5 GHz and 3.5 GHz.
On the other hand, LTE is more flexible than WIMAX because LTE can be used and set up in any frequencies in the range of 2.1GHz, AWS, 700MHz, 2.6GHz, 900 and 1800MHz. LTE provided more flexibility because of the ability of installing was start from 1.3MHz to 20MHz that lead LTE access to the existing frequencies easily.

IMT-2000* is simply a term used by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) to refer to many third generation (3G) wireless technology, that provide higher data speed between mobile phones and base antennas.
Also Known As: IMT2000, IMT stands for "International Mobile Telecommunications"

ADVANTAGES & DISADVANTAGES OF LTE

Advantages of LTE


1. LTE facilitates the current applications to perform on better speed as well as for the new mobile applications
2. LTE decrease the traffic of communication in term of sending data.
3. LTE allows more users to use the same frequency that result in increasing of Mobile Broadband users.
4. LTE separates frequencies into different channel in order to protect the disturbance of each channel; the solution was called “Orthogonal”.
5. LTE offers faster data rate transfer as compare to existing 3G network equipments by using radio waves over the same bandwidth.
6. LTE supports more data capacity because it focuses on VoIP(Voice Over Internet Protocol).
7. LTE allows wireless broadband providers to transition to this new technology without rebuilding their entire networks from the ground up.
8. LTE can also support voice and Short Message Service (SMS) text messaging using existing networks via Generic Access (VoLGA).


Disadvantages of LTE

1. The start-up costs of service providers and consumers for equipment upgrades are too high; new equipments will be needed to be installed.
2. LTE technology need to use additional antennas at network base stations for data transmission. As a result to the network upgrades users need to buy new cell phones to make use of new network infrastructure.