WiMax - MAC & CID

Hello,

I am researching why WiMax needs both MAC addresses, and CIDs. Does anybody understand why this is? It really has me stumped.

So far all i have (and it could even be wrong), is that the MAC is there to identify a device, and the CID is there to identify a trasmission channel. Is there more too it than that? is the CID based on the MAC? do you end up with heaps of CIDs everytime you use WiMax? I just cant find much information on the topic at all, particularily regarding the MAC.

Any Advise would be excellent.

thanks,

Seth

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seth.stanford
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You wouldn't be a CSU ITC513 student would you ;-)

Yeah not much out there about this topic... and only a single paragraph in the text.....

Daniel

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