[95241] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cable/DSL and the future of high-speed internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexander Harrowell)
Tue Mar 13 12:10:34 2007
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:07:49 +0000
From: "Alexander Harrowell" <a.harrowell@gmail.com>
To: "Jared Mauch" <jared@puck.nether.net>
Cc: "Jeff Shultz" <jeffshultz@wvi.com>,
"NANOG list" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070313155552.GG38815@puck.nether.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Data point: a "considerable" number of mobile ops worldwide are
pulling fibre to their Node-Bs or at least their RNCs. (No, wireline
types - not Republican National Committees, Radio Network Controllers
- you have one for every 10-15 Node-Bs, for a very rough idea)
Sources say the triggering event is the enablement of HSDPA (and
presumably Revision A for the CDMA world, although I haven't heard of
a CDMA carrier fibreing up yet). Some deployments so far have been up
to 2,000 cell sites with fibre backhaul.
