On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Chuck McCown - 3 wrote: >I think the canopy 450 will do something like 30 down and 10 up. >So that could give you 20 simultaneously which statistically could >work if you had 50-100 on an AP.
Ok, so you have 20 people on one AP pulling 2Meg each which is 40 meg stream. If you have just 3 towers like that, you will have 120Meg streaming. At $50/sub, you have 60*50 = $3k/month in revenue for those that are using that 120Meg. You'd NEVER get 120Meg delivered to rural America (at least not in MY area) for that kind of money. A DS3 here with 45Meg would be around $4500/month after you include the transport. What am I missing? Canopy isn't the answer...the question isn't JUST the last mile, but the business model overall. The problem CAN be solved at the last mile, but when people are demanding streaming services they will have to understand that $50 commodity service isn't the answer. I'd be happy to deliver ANYONE with a dedicated service level of 2,3 even 10M, but it won't be $50/month. -- ******************************************************************** * Butch Evans * Professional Network Consultation* * http://www.butchevans.com/ * Network Engineering * * http://www.wispa.org/ * WISPA Board Member * * http://blog.butchevans.com/ * Wired or Wireless Networks * ******************************************************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
