Broadband Wireless Association

The Broadband Wireless Association is a non-profit organisation which aims to provide representation for the fixed wireless industry in regulator forums, and to manage workshops to generate harmonised responses to consultations.


The BWA is now looking at issues around the inter-operation of the established wireless technologies with fibre and copper infrastructures.

We will be running events on network resilience, information assurance, cross-technology networks and mobile/fixed network integration.

We are also working with operators and vendors on the business and technical activities of LTE.

A new thread is the debate on how to deal with the agressive growth of data in mobile networks. As data traffic threatens to overwhelm the 3G networks is data off load the answer?

Wi-fi

Wireless broadband is the new technology that allows you to access internet without telephone wires or cable network. In other words, you are no longer confined to a limited space where wired network is setup, whether in your home or your office. This means, with your laptop, you can access internet from anywhere in your home or office or even on move providing that you have necessary wireless equipment and an access point nearby.

A Wi-fi connection or wireless mode of internet access depends on two things ­ an access point (this is what the so called hotspots provide in public places like restaurants etc) and wireless equipment like wireless router. The hotspot or access point transmits the data in the form of radio waves and the wireless router receives the data and passes on to your computer. Depending on the distance from the access point and the performance of your wireless router, the quality and stability of your connection may vary.

A new kind of emerging wireless broadband is mobile wireless broadband which enables you to get broadband access via mobile phone transmission towers. This wireless technology has made your internet connection possible even without hotspots or access points. However, the quality of service depends on the strength of signal in your area. All your PC or laptop needs are a special transmission card or a USB equipment to access the broadband service from your ISP.

Advantages of Wireless broadband

Basically, the needs of users determine the future course of any technology. When traditional dial-up could not meet the communication needs of users in terms of bandwidth, speed, reliability and service quality, broadband emerged as a solution. The technologies like ADSL and cable network deliver broadband with speeds up to 100Mbps. This makes the downloading of huge files of many Giga Bytes possible in minutes. Moreover, ADSL, the dominant broadband technology and cable network have greater reliability to their credit. Also the setup cost to access broadband using those technologies was significantly cheaper. Despite these factors, the up-take of wireless broadband is increasing nowadays. This clearly shows how the factors like wireless environment and greater mobility make wireless broadband so attractive to the users.

What is Wireless Broadband

Ok first off wireless broadband is all about getting Broadband Internet access without wires. That is it no wires! It sounds simple enough so far. Right, be warned, there are in deed two different types of wireless broadband systems being promoted to consumers this minute.

There is the Wireless Broadband hotspots that are popping up around the country where you can take your Wireless network (WiFi) enabled laptop and logon to the internet for either a monthly charge or pay as you go charge.

THIS is what Wireless Broadband truly is. You get your wireless broadband access completely wirelessly, you don’t have access, don’t know about, don’t care! about the wires involved, but they are there behind the walls trust me!.