On Apr 18, 2008, at 9:41 PM, Jack Unger wrote: > > > Jeff Booher wrote: >> Ill be happy to answer this. >> >> >> On Apr 18, 2008, at 4:47 PM, Rogelio wrote: >> >> >>> Excuse the ignorance, but two basic questions: >>> >>> (1) Why exactly is wimax such a disappointment? >>> >> >> Wimax is not a dissapointment. The problem is the press jumped on the >> Wimax bandwagon WELL before the products were even in the market, and >> frankly there wasnt much product available in the US ( due to >> spectrum ). >> >> Wimax honestly will enable operators to delivery a carrier class >> fixed, system with lower CPE costs and still be capable of delivering >> the the high capacity needed to scale to thousands of subscribers per >> tower. >> > Thousands of subscribers per tower is seriously doubtful unless 90% of > them are inactive simultaneously.
Depends on the bandwidth delivered per subscriber and yes, on a millesecond by millesecond basis, most CPE are not active 24/7 on a network. unlike polled solutions that do not scale up beyond 50+ subs per AP, the wimax MAC enables operators to add hundreds of subs to a single sector. > >> >> >>> I'm relatively new to the wireless space, and all I really >>> understand is the >>> tone of the articles I read, not really the IEEE specifications that >>> limit >>> it as a technology. >>> >>> AND >>> >>> (2) What is so special about 802.16e? >>> >> >> If you are in the US, and you don't already own sub 3ghz spectrum, >> just ignore 802.16e. You wont be able to use it, really. >> >> >> >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >>> http://signup.wispa.org/ >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >>> >>> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >>> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >>> >>> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >>> >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> >> >> >> > > -- > Jack Unger - President, Ask-Wi.Com, Inc. > Serving the Broadband Wireless Industry Since 1993 > Author of the Cisco Press Book - "Deploying License-Free Wireless > WANs" > Vendor-Neutral Wireless Training-Design-Troubleshooting-Consulting > FCC License # PG-12-25133 > Phone 818-227-4220 Email <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
