WiMax - MAC & CID

Nov 05, 2007 3 Replies

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



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

how's this -

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