WiMax Operator's Manual

PONs (passive optical networks), features
of, 74
POTS (plain old telephone service),
significance of, 140
prices. See costs
propagation distance, availability in
standards, 6
protocols. See also standards
for OSS software integration, 183–184
tunneling protocols, 161–162
provisioning, relationship to OSS, 181
proxy server firewalls, features of, 146, 191
PSTN (public switched telephone network)
evolution of, 148–150
relationship to softswitches, 52
PTCP (point-to-consecutive point)
architectures, relationship to MAC
layer, 3
PTMP (point-to-multipoint) network
architectures, relationship to MAC
layer, 3
pure circuit connections, transmissions in, 160
pure circuit-switched VPNs, features of, 159
pure packet services model, overview of,
153–155
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QoS (quality of service)
802.16 provisions for, 165
achieving in wireless broadband packet
networks, 165
availability in standards, 6
and compression, 169
creating artificial bandwidth for, 168–169
importance of, 170–174
IP protocols for, 166
and IP telephony, 170–171
and ISPs, 152
marketing through service-level
agreements, 164
overview of, 162–164
in packet networks, 164
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queuing techniques available to, 167–168
supporting, 168–170
and wireless broadband, 23
QoS protocols, using in multiples, 168
QUAM (quadrature amplitude modulation),
relationship to 802.16 standard, 4
queuing techniques, supporting QoS with,
167–168
■R
radio cells. See cells
radio designs, impact on rejecting
interference, 90
radio transmissions, frequencies of, 34–35
radios
confirming in equipment selection, 93–94
designing to span multiple bands, 48
installation of, 123–124
installing outside, 123
for millimeter wave regions, 77
in multipath environments, 114–115
operation above 2GHz, 112–113
performance relative to NLOS, 115
potential of, 48–49
rain fade, significance of, 37
RBOCs (Regional Bell Operating
Companies), relationship to DSL, 18
reflection, relationship to NLOS and wave
propagation, 114–115
repeaters, role in frequency reuse, 108–109
residential and SOHO subscribers, use of
internal networks by, 128
RF (radio frequency) spectrum, division by
802.16 standard, 34
RF analysis, performing, 89–91
RF equipment, measuring, 93
RF ports, checking for base station
controllers, 94
RF spectrum, range of, 34
RFC 2547, relationship to VPN technology, 161
ride through of electrical power, significance
of, 69
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