Date: Mon May 05 2008 - 11:23:53 AKDT
Please join us for the May meeting!
When: Wednesday, May 7th, 2008, from noon to 1:00 p.m.
Where: BP Energy Center, 900 E. Benson Blvd:
(NEW Link to Map & Directions) - http://tinyurl.com/2lqygt
Who: All NUGA members and Guests welcome ($5 lunch charge for
non-members)
Topic: WiMAX in Alaska
AT&T is bringing WiMAX service to Alaska and we are fortunate enough to
have their product director give us a presentation on the technical
aspects of the service and what AT&T is doing with the service up here.
For those like me who have trouble keeping their IEEE standards
straight, I offer the following: (From Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia)
WiMAX, the Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, is a
telecommunications <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications>
technology aimed at providing wireless data over long distances in a
variety of ways, from point-to-point
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-to-point> links to full mobile
cellular type access. It is based on the IEEE 802.16
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.16> standard, which is also
called WirelessMAN <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WirelessMAN> . The name
"WiMAX" was created by the WiMAX Forum
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimax#WiMAX_Forum> , which was formed in
June 2001 to promote conformance and interoperability of the standard.
The forum describes WiMAX as "a standards-based technology enabling the
delivery of last mile <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_mile> wireless
broadband access as an alternative to cable and DSL"
Presenter: Trent Long - Director of Product Enablement - IP Operations
- AT&T
It should be another terrific presentation so plan now to attend and
bring a guest!
As always, we will have pizza available for your eating pleasure along
with door prizes and free information!
-- Jerry Tibor, MVP LAN Manager Electronic Student Services University of Alaska Anchorage Vice-President, Network Users Group Alaska http://www.nuga.org <http://www.nuga.org/> anjft@uaa.alaska.edu (907) 786-4734 - voice (907) 786-4888 - fax <https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Jerry.Tibor>
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