Performance Analysis of Triple Play Services over WiMax Access Broadband Technology

The main objectives of this paper is to examine the performance of the wireless broadband infrastructures and their support for Triple Play services under different separated scenarios by using OPNET Modeler 14.5. This simulation network uses several features to study the performances of WiMax on Triple Play services, 3.5GHz band is chosen in our studies because it is widely used band all over the world. Moreover, this band is licensed, so that interfere is under control and allows using higher transmission power. The best bandwidth for a carrier frequency of 3.5GHz is needed to be tested. The pathloss for urban, suburban and rural is calculated, while multipath with pathloss is calculated for ITU channel model of pedestrian in different environments. WiMax does not offer a compelling reason to switch from other forms of residential broadband. When bundled with broadband internet access and VoD, a WiMax Triple Play becomes very attractive to residential subscribers. Given the QoS and reliability mechanisms built into WiMax in this simulation scenario, subscribers will find WiMax good. Keywords— WiMAX, Triple Play Service (IPTV, VoIP and Data), QoS with DiffServ architecture, simulation model design.