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Vergina Network http://www.vernet.gr > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Patrick Leary > Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 4:16 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [BAWUG] Greetings BAWUG (A BWA advocate hopes he is welcomed) > > > Hello BAWUG, > My name is Patrick Leary. I am known as the Chief Evangelist for Alvarion, > the major wireless broadband vendor. Like BAWUG contributors > David Reed and > Dewayne Hendricks, I was a panelist for one of the Spectrum Policy Task > Force's unlicensed spectrum public workshops. Tim Pozar was kind enough to > provide me with a link to this respected list. > > My joining here is not for the sake of marketing, it is a > personal desire to > engage the public network community in important dialogue. In my view, the > two groups of license-exempt advocates have run along parallel tracks for > too long. I seek to intersect and convey what I believe are critical > universal concepts (explained further below) that should unite us. My > specific areas of expertise include the following: > > 1. In depth knowledge of the wireless broadband market, licensed and > unlicensed, but with a special love and focus on license exempt. This > includes an extensive comprehension of subtle concepts frankly > lost on many > within my own side of the wireless broadband community. > > 2. Part 15 with broad knowledge of the certification requirements > as opposed > to commonly believed myths, including a few which I see (perhaps > incorrectly) permeate the public network community. > > 3. Very broad knowledge of the various business models of unlicensed > wireless broadband as a commercial service. I have vast understanding of a > great many deployments, many of which I am involved from a vendor > perspective and many more as an industry promoter with personal > relationships with the operators. > > 4. Real world experience with what is possible with unlicensed > (and what has > been done), the state of the market, as well as trends. > > This work is a vocation to me, fostered by an absolute belief > that broadband > is the critical element required to bring sustained economic growth. In > particular, the ability of unlicensed wireless to enable communities to > seize their own broadband destiny. > > The three critical points I hope to impart to this community are thus: > > 1. Do not lose sight that what is important is the public policy that > enabled unlicensed to emerge in the first place. Wi-Fi is like > the Model T. > It is very important for all the same reasons the Model T was important. > But, what enabled the Model T was the innovation enabled by new > manufacturing processes. Consider spectrum policy as a similar enabler of > innovation. > > Accordingly, too much focus on the 1st mass accepted byproduct of that > policy risks missing the critical reality that it is the ability of policy > to enable innovation. The only thing that must be protected and > expanded is > policy that promotes innovation. Do not seek to protect a static byproduct > of that policy. > > If we remain effective stewards of that policy, I assure you that > innovation > far more compelling than the Model T will emerge. > > 2. I urge this community to understand that what is being constructed here > is no less than the next generation telecom infrastructure. Like David > Isenburg, I believe - no, I know - that IP will topple the > circuit switched > world. We are deep in that tumultuous evolutionary process now. > > Therefore, it is critical in my view that these networks be taken as > seriously as Ma Bell took hers decades ago when policy and subsidy brought > us arguably the best voice infrastructure in the world. Should we > miss this > point and allow the IP wireless infrastructure to be a loose patchwork of > cobbled together networks, we risk ending up with a third world last mile > infrastructure. > > 3. Lastly, I caution this community not to confuse the last mile with the > last 100 feet. It is appropriate and unavoidable that Wi-Fi or > the emergent > dynamically combined standards (or perhaps UWB) become the last 100 feet. > However, no hotspot is "hot" without the last mile access from which it is > fed. In that world, deployments in unlicensed through North America do not > use Wi-Fi. They use systems enabled by the innovation promoting > ambiguity of > Part 15. Innovation in the last mile using unlicensed long ago transcended > Wi-Fi limitations, even those systems using the same 2.4GHz band. In fact, > even those commercial providers of wireless Internet service (mostly the > current province of small, non-metro providers) that use 802.11b largely > customize away their compatibility with Wi-Fi. Software overlays > such as the > Karlnet polling software serve as a prime example of such. > > Currently, I estimate their are at least 2,500 commercial unlicensed > wireless broadband service providers ranging in size in a single > market from > a handful of customers to over 4,000. I know of many systems where each > covers thousands of square miles using unlicensed wireless systems. These > systems share their legacy with 802.11b, but they are no more > Wi-Fi than the > Willys Jeep was a Model T. > > I look forward to a thoughtful dialogue and I hope I am welcomed here. > > Kind regards, > > Patrick J. Leary > Chief Evangelist, Alvarion, Inc. > Executive Committee Member, WCA/LEA > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Ph: 760.494.4717 (VONAGE VoIP service) > Cell: 770.331.5849 > Fax: 509.479.2374 (eFAX) > > > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
