On 15/11/15 16:33, Paul Brooks wrote: > All 'mobile' infrastructure has a foundation of fixed infrastructure. ...
Yes, *almost* all mobile devices require a fixed infrastructure. But building a fixed infrastructure all the way into people's homes is not an efficient way to support their mobile devices. > ... NBN fixed infrastructure forms a fine backhaul network to enable > ubiquitous WiFi and other radio technologies to connect mobile > devices to educational content and to each other. ... Most of the cost of the NBN is in the last few hundred metres, getting fiber from nodes in the street into homes. If this part was wireless, it would eliminate a major cost. The idea that you use one fixed data network at home and then you to switch over to a different "mobile" one when you step out the front gate seems an antiquated idea. Hardly anyone does that for making phone calls any more, so why should should they do it with data? -- Tom Worthington FACS CP, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150 The Higher Education Whisperer http://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/ PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia http://www.tomw.net.au Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Research School of Computer Science, Australian National University http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP7310/ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
