Consider that we also sell millions worth of Wi-Fi ourselves, so you are not addressing someone ignorant of those pieces of the equation. Consider that we were also key players in nearly every wireless standard to date, so I know something and we agree about the power of standards. Consider that I was desinging and literally building fiber optic MANs 15 years ago, so I know something about the power of fiber as well AND about its complimentary nature.
I don't require you to agree with me, but you should know that all these things you say you cannot do or that we cannot do, are, in fact, being done in every corner of the globe and of this country and we are at the low, front end of the adoption curve. For every thing you say cannot be done successfully, I can likely find dozens of actual examples to demonstrate the opposite. Do you really want to know what the largest single market license-exempt wireless broadband deployment in the world is? I'll give you a hint, they have over 23,000 installed fixed last subscribers to date and they trialed Wi-Fi extensively for 6 months before opting for something else. SpeedNet in Tokyo. How about the same question but limit it to the US and Canada? They trialed Wi-Fi before choosing something else. Now they have about 4,000 subscribers in a single market (Amarillo). Both are growing rapidly. Both compete head on with DSL. In fact, SpeedNet faces DSL competition selling for $19 a month. So Wi-Fi is awesome for the last 100, maybe eevn 500 feet, but until or unless it drammatically changes (add it could yet happen), it will not be a successful last mile technology compared with those unlicensed systems designed for the application of WMAN. BYW, in Tokyo, fiber runs to most every pole. SpeedNet owns it and uses it to backhaul the wireless. So much for fiber's competition. It is all relative depending on who has what assests. So, as I said earlier, we at least agree we disagree. Kind regards, Patrick J. Leary Chief Evangelist, Alvarion, Inc. Executive Committee Member, WCA/LEA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 760.494.4717 Cell: 770.331.5849 Fax: 509.479.2374 -----Original Message----- From: Todd Boyle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 5:17 PM To: Patrick Leary; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [BAWUG] Greetings BAWUG (A BWA advocate hopes he is welcomed ) Yes, technically wireless can do wonders. But when, and at what price? You are goners if you can't keep up with cable and DSL (and other fiber providers) Kirkland are not smalltown folks. We've been there and done that. You're describing an architecture of very expensive hubs that furthermore require high skill labor, and cannot play in the race, of high volume, high competition consumer chipsets like WiFi. There are fibers *all over the place* on Seattle Eastside, and the owners of the fiber could easily, today, feed many broadband connections with something like Nokia rooftop, or anything else that supports clusters of users. What we need is a $100 rooftop device and a layer of plain ol' routers to aggregaet the traffic on to all these empty fibers. By the time you get your high-engineering hubs built the chip manufacturers will be selling the same power in boxes at compUSA, that is, if its not protected by police powers (either proprietary code, or FCC regulation, or whatnot,) Todd ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the originator of the message. This footer also confirms that this email message has been scanned for the presence of computer viruses. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifies and with authority, states them to be the views of Alvarion Inc. Scanning of this message and addition of this footer is performed by SurfControl SuperScout Email Filter software in conjunction with virus detection software. -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
