802.16 WiMAX

There's a new kid in town. This time it's a wireless standard emant specifically for long-haulm (or backbone) links. The standard is called IEEE 802.16, but the popular name seesm to be WiMAX.

The idea is to create a technology that is designed for longer (up to 70 Km's?) wireless links. Essentially the type of point-to-point links that we've all been forcing 802.11b into.

Tim Swanson has a brief write-up and there's this article from The Inguirer which pretty much cover's all there is to say:
WiMAX set to overshadow wi-fi