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

On Nov 5, 7:25 pm, seth.stanf...@gmail.com wrote:
> 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

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> 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.
>

how's this -
http://www.commsdesign.com/showArtic...cleID=17500163

> how's this - needed the session ID for the embedded graphics?

http://www.commsdesign.com/showArtic...R2AQSNDLPSKH0C
JUNN2JVN?articleID=17500163