[95302] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Hammett)
Wed Mar 14 09:15:47 2007
From: "Mike Hammett" <nanog@ics-il.net>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:00:33 -0500
In-Reply-To: <a2b2d0480703140238j5a764433we1d0a2f1e8a8614f@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
WiMAX is minimally different than most current wireless broadband equipment.
Its main selling point is higher scale, thus lower cost. Its improved RF
capabilities result in maybe 10 db.
--Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Alexander Harrowell
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 4:39 AM
To: Daniel Senie
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)
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).
