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Wireless wide-area networking

Wireless wide-area networking

From the course: IoT Foundations: Low-Power Wireless Networking

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Wireless wide-area networking

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- [Instructor] A Wireless Wide Area Network can transmit data over a long distance across a metropolitan area in a range from several kilometers to tenths of kilometers. Wireless wide area networking technologies provide a way to meet a long range and wide area data transmission requirements. Let's briefly introduce some typical wireless WANs first. The global system for mobile communications, GSM, is a standard for the second generation of mobile communications technology. The Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service, UMTS, is a standard for the third generation of mobile communications technology. The latest UMTS mobile network can provide a much higher speed than GSM. The Long-Term Evolution, LTE advanced, is a standard for the fourth generation of mobile communications technology. In LTE advanced based mobile network, they provide more than 10 times higher speed than UMTS. Originally, these mobile networking technologies did not target at low-power wireless networks for IoT…

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