[107105] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: speaking of slightly OT but perhaps still operational content
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Tue Aug 26 15:33:35 2008
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:33:18 -0400
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: John Lee <john@internetassociatesllc.com>
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Perhaps I'm wrong, but I thought its fairly typical for large events
such as these (with lots of communications assets being deployed, not
unlike a Superbowl, etc) for Cell companies to roll in COWs
(Cell-on-wheels) type deployments to support additional capacity.
Am I living in a fantasy land?
Deepak
John Lee wrote:
> Unless they have installed a DAS system for cell signal transport or a number of micro or nano cells in the building they will have congestion. But what is a political convention without a little congestion.
>
> John (ISDN) Lee
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Dorn Hetzel [dhetzel@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 12:50 PM
> To: NANOG list
> Subject: speaking of slightly OT but perhaps still operational content
>
> I noticed where the democrats plan to ask a stadium full of people to all
> use their cellphones at the same time (on Thursday, I believe)
>
> Any thoughts on how useable cell service will or wont be in the vicinity of
> this event? :)
>
> -Dorn
>
>
>
