I've seen a number of grant funding proposals based on 25M and 100M speeds.
In general what they do is lie. Or they're wrong.
First you use the capacity planning tool provided the manufacturer and
remember that you can populate the values however you want to. Your
prediction doesn't have to be perfectly correct, it just has to be
defensible if you're questioned about it.
Also use an 8:1 oversubscription ratio and in your narrative claim that
this is "conservative". It /was /a conservative value in the
pre-Netflix world so this is another one where they might truly believe
it, or they could be lying.
You can also play games with coverage maps. What's the minimum MCS to
get a subscriber at 25meg? Use that signal level to predict coverage.
Most of us will realize that at that signal you can only have ONE person
at 25meg, but using that figure makes it a hell of a lot easier to show
coverage in the entire funding area.
Whether this is actually a lie, or whether they truly believe this stuff
is not always obvious to me. Some of them I'm certain think it's true,
and I think it's a case where their engineering was informed by the
equipment sales channel. Others I think are just full of crap, but they
know what they can get away with.
I'm not advocating any of these "design choices", but I'm telling you
these are things people often do to make their grant funding
applications look defensibly acceptable. In some cases I do believe the
applicant is simply wrong. They're an administrator or a business
person and they're just asking the wrong questions. Some of them could
be liars, but you'll note that each of these lies leaves the person with
the ability to point their finger at someone else and say "well that guy
told me this equipment could do that."
In the case of NY State, they had an independent engineering firm review
the proposals for their technical plausibility and apparently those guys
would look at these applications and not see any problem. I didn't
quite figure out why that was.....but I have some guesses.
My info comes from participating in application processes and talking to
other applicants about what they're doing.
-Adam
On 4/6/2020 2:27 PM, Dev wrote:
So if I understand we’ll have to provide 25/3 to ALL locations that receive
RDOF funding? If so, how would that happen without the 6GHz that isn’t out yet
and won’t be by the time this round funds?
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