[127219] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Future of WiMax
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Holmes,David A)
Thu Jun 17 16:56:01 2010
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:16:27 -0700
In-Reply-To: <4C192774.1050501@rollernet.us>
From: "Holmes,David A" <dholmes@mwdh2o.com>
To: "Seth Mattinen" <sethm@rollernet.us>,
"nanOG list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
For business purposes such as fixed wireless access for small branch
offices, it would seem that Wi-Max is superior to current GSM and CDMA
proprietary networks in that the upload/download speeds are symmetric.
It appears that GSM and CDMA networks are based on the asymmetric low
upload bandwidth/high download bandwidth model, thus placing severe
restrictions on business use for fixed locations.=20
-----Original Message-----
From: Seth Mattinen [mailto:sethm@rollernet.us]=20
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 12:35 PM
To: nanOG list
Subject: Future of WiMax
A while back I remember reading a comment here that "WiMax is not a
future proof technology" and that several manufacturers have dropped it
or something to that effect. I think it was in the starting a WiMax ISP
thread. This has stuck in my head, and I was curious if there was any
truth to this.
WiMax sounds promising, but I certainly don't hear a lot about it other
than Sprint/Clear. Is it just that everyone that's doing wireless is
sticking with relatively inexpensive 802.11 a/b/g/n products, or is
WiMax really a dead end?
~Seth
