Affordable infrastructure for deploying WiMAX systems: mesh v. non mesh

This study compares the economics of deploying conventional broadband wireless systems with different broadband mesh topologies (i.e. 1 hop or 2 hop) that deliver high speed data services to residential, SOHO, and large enterprises by a competitive local exchange carrier based on future WiMAX certified products. Regardless of fixed or mobile broadband wireless, the service offered should be affordable to all classes of the society. There are many new solutions, new income opportunities and sometimes-complicated business models for each type of mesh architecture. The different architectures of broadband wireless have been examined and we propose a cost effective infrastructure for deploying WiMAX systems.