WiMax Operator's Manual
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WiMax Operator's Manual
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asic access and best-effort delivery,<br />
overview of, 155–157. See also access<br />
providers<br />
basic Internet access, use of, 50–51<br />
best practices<br />
for central offices, 69<br />
for safeguarding network elements from<br />
hijacking and malicious code, 192<br />
best-effort delivery and basic access,<br />
overview of, 155–157<br />
BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) over MPLS,<br />
relationship to VPN technology, 161<br />
billing, managing with OSS, 181–182<br />
BLECs (building local exchanges), failure<br />
of, 125<br />
bridge connections, using, 77<br />
broadband fixed wireless<br />
circuit-based access technologies, 14–15<br />
DSL, 16–18<br />
frame relay, 15–16<br />
hybrid fiber coax, 18–20<br />
wireless broadband, 20–23<br />
broadband wireless. See wireless broadband<br />
budgets, estimating, 96–99. See also costs<br />
business strategy, considering for internal<br />
networks, 126<br />
■C<br />
cable aggregation nodes, capacity of, 25–26<br />
cable installations, costs of, 126<br />
cable networks, resemblance to wireless<br />
broadband video networks, 56<br />
cable services<br />
characterizing, 19<br />
evolution of, 19<br />
versus wireless broadband, 21<br />
cabling procedures, importance in<br />
installation, 123<br />
CALEA (Communications Assistance for Law<br />
Enforcement Act), significance of,<br />
187, 193–194<br />
■INDEX<br />
capital and operating budgets, estimating,<br />
96–99. See also costs<br />
carrier grade versus enterprise equipment, 63<br />
carrier wave, definition of, 116<br />
carrier’s carrier service model, overview of,<br />
61–62<br />
CAVU-eXpedient provider, significance of, 40<br />
CDMA (Code-Division Multiple Access),<br />
relationship to subscriber density, 28<br />
cell mapping, strategies for, 105–107<br />
cell planning, relationship to adaptive<br />
modulation, 122<br />
cell splitting, relationship to frequency reuse,<br />
111–112<br />
cells. See also macrocells; microcells<br />
channel assignments between, 104–105<br />
functionality in point-to-multipoint<br />
networks, 102–104<br />
versus sectors, 109–110<br />
cellular reuse, application of, 103–104<br />
central exchange, relationship to T1 and<br />
SONET, 59<br />
central offices<br />
application-specific equipment for,<br />
141–145<br />
ATM and frame relay-switching<br />
equipment in, 140–141<br />
backhaul considerations related to, 72–79<br />
best practices for, 69<br />
and class 5 switches, 149<br />
establishing access points for, 71–72<br />
establishing sites for, 65–66<br />
and location-based services, 145<br />
mobile voice equipment in, 140<br />
mounting equipment in, 69<br />
obtaining affordable space for, 66<br />
obtaining facilities for, 70–71<br />
physical requirements for, 66–69<br />
placing Ethernet switches in, 135–137<br />
primary function of, 141<br />
197