"There's so much sloppy and inaccurate "journalism" these days that I need reassurance that the article means what it appears to be saying."
So true Jack. I can't remember how many letters to the editor I have written seeking to correct articles. The latest being Friday when a local Silicon Valley paper (Mountain View Voice) carried a May 26 cover story in its business section that explained how Google's city wide wireless project in its home city of Mountain View worked. It said 350 Tropos mesh nodes "...will transmit to one of three aggregation points..." What it forgot to mention is that there are about 50 Alvarion BreezeACCESS VL nodes and those are what connects to the three base stations around the city. So all the mesh connects to the BreezeACCESS VL, which is the NLOS metro wide multipoint backhaul for the project. [It can be argued that the backhaul is the critical piece since it defines how much capacity is actually available in the mesh. Also, a high capacity multipoint backhaul like BreezeACCESS VL requires much fewer total BH nodes, reducing the network CAPEX.] The funny thing is that the picture they carried shows the Google project leader presenting the network to the local community and businesses and in the background is a Power Point that has Alvarion's name on it. The slide in the image says, "...radios connects to the Internet via an Alvarion gateway that connects wirelessly to a base station." Fortunately, the Mountain View Voice, as a paper in the tech heart of the U.S., wants to get it right, so they will print my Letter to the Editor. I was especially glad to hear that since we have about 170 people working here in Mountain View! Patrick Leary AVP Marketing Alvarion, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Jack Unger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 11:46 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] This is HUGE! Hopefully, the 8% (6,000,000) figure includes ONLY end-users who use wireless broadband to get to/from their home and NOT the end-users who have a copper/fiber-based (cable/telco) broadband connection to their home and then use a Wi-Fi router/access point that provides the "final 50-ft" connection wirelessly. There's so much sloppy and innacurate "journalism" these days that I need reassurance that the article means what it appears to be saying. If there are 6,000,000 end-users and if there are 5000 WISPs then each WISP would, on average, have 1,200 subscribers. I'm not sure that this passes the "sniff" test. jack John Scrivner wrote: > Check this out from the Pew report. It appears that fixed wireless is much > bigger than what even I thought. According to this report 8% of all broadband > connections in the US are delivered via fixed broadband wireless. That means you > guys! Woo Hoo! > Scriv > > > -- Jack Unger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - President, Ask-Wi.Com, Inc. Serving the License-Free Wireless Industry Since 1993 Author of the WISP Handbook - "Deploying License-Free Wireless WANs" True Vendor-Neutral WISP Consulting-Training-Troubleshooting Our next WISP Workshop is June 21-22 in Atlanta, GA. Phone (VoIP Over Broadband Wireless) 818-227-4220 www.ask-wi.com -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ **************************************************************************** ******** This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses. **************************************************************************** ******** **************************************************************************** ******** This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses. **************************************************************************** ******** -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
