[95293] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexander Harrowell)
Wed Mar 14 05:40:09 2007
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:38:50 +0000
From: "Alexander Harrowell" <a.harrowell@gmail.com>
To: "Daniel Senie" <dts@senie.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20070313140835.0685f090@senie.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 3/13/07, Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com> wrote:
> > How do longer-range wireless technologies like WiMAX
> >potentially impact the equation?
>
> If cell phone companies have not covered an area, what makes you
> think WiMAX is a magic solution? How well does WiMAX work to cover
> hilly, forested, rural terrain? Who will pay to put up enough towers
> to provide coverage? Will municipalities unhappy about the look of
> towers consider this a reasonable alternative to running services
> along telephone poles that already exist? If the cell carriers
> haven't found it economic to provide coverage, why would the WiMAX provider?
>
WiMAX should work very well for hilly and forested terrain - it splits
the signal across any multipath that may be around, so the more the
merrier (within reason).
