Abstract

The merging of long-haul carriers with wireless operators signals significant changes in telecommunications services in the US. Wireless access is likely to become ubiquitous, while efficient fiber based transport provides the necessary bandwidth for aggregated traffic transport. Recently, WiMAX wireless technology had been tried out in places across the world. WiMAX technology promises a quick and cheap deployment of broadband and voice services over a non-line-of-sight wireless channel. In addition, WiMax radios probe the air channel so as to dynamically adapt to atmospheric conditions. This paper addresses the provisioning of voice and data services over a combined WiMAX/optical network. We address issues such as wireless channel call blocking of voice services and transport bandwidth provisioning schemes vis-a-vis packet loss performance of a wireless/transport network.

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