>Hi Stefan, > >So I did a deep dive to figure out the source of your confusion re thinking >QAM256 and MU-MIMO would require new hardware. > >On FEB 4 you asked your Telrad rep this question: > >" I've done some additional googling and found a very interesting presentation >of Patrick Leary: >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLHW9Bk7_nA > >There is a roadmap with features like MU-MIMO and 256 QAM in 2015. > >Buying a CMP1000, CPE 7000, CPE 7001 now this features come to this Hardware >or will there be newer Hardware Releases in the future to implement this? Will >there be additional license costs or will this upgrades be included?"
>The sales person responding to you looked at the total list, which included >both CPE and base stations and then gave the answer he did. Even though your >English is MUCH better than my >German, neither of you are native English >speakers, so that contributed to the confusion. He should have separated out >the CPE answer from the base station answer. The CPE 7000 model -- a category >4 UE -- will not support those LTE Advanced features, not ours, not anyone's. >Our COMPACT1000 eNodeB base station, however, will. It will accept these >features and more. >Do you understand now? >Patrick Leary Thanks Patrick to clarify this. Your product realy points toward the future. Hope your/telrads business will succeed so we all get a great option. I just have a ROI problem in my special (german) case. The price competition is very hard here so we have to be dirt cheap while increasing bandwidth. This is different from region to region and depends on the infrastructure our national telekom has built. In some (other) regions there is fiber built out in a way it is not usable for broadband. There it is easier to compete. Pointed your EMEA college to a WISP in this region. We're going the way to build smaller cells using wifi-based gear mixed with DSL and some special projects where we connect larger buildings with licensed and inhouse Fiber/DSL buildouts. Our target is to offer "up to" 100Mbit/s Service to customers starting this year.
