WiMAX Plan Aims To Cut Army Costs

摘要

A wireless network initiative underway at New Jersey's Fort Dix is extending broadband Internet service to remote training areas while halving the cost compared to the alternative fiber optics installation. The wireless plan takes advantage of emerging standard 802.16 wireless technology. It enables Army officials to stretch and optimize the base's existing fiber optic-based network with a new long-range, point-to-multipoint wireless solution. "It's primarily an alternate backbone solution to replace fiber," says Tom Badders, wireless networking director, Telos Corporation, Ashburn, Virginia, about the no-line-of-sight capability. "We're bringing service to where they don't have service or where they have service but want to improve the bandwidth," he adds.