Patrick, 16e is where the majority of the chipset development is at, and where companies such as Alcatel/Cisco/Motorola/Alvarion/Zyxel are focusing, and the new big deployments (Clearwire) are using 802.16e, and we want the ability to go to 802.16m when available. We also want to take advantage of the multipath enviroment utilizing mimo and wave 2 profiles. We have more hope of interoperability with 16e (Alvarion states such things with it's open initiative) then we do with 16d, although that isn't something we are counting on.
Patrick, I realize you used to work for Alvarion, and now Aperto but you used to evangelize 802.16e and now you evangelize 802.16d, to us 802.16d is going to be the lesser of the two technologies and offers little advantage over our current wifi deployments, as we move to integrate voice into our wireless deployments and replace some of our wireline infrastructure and make a large investment in gear we want to be as future proof as possible. Regards Michael Baird > Why is your basic criteria .16e with MIMO (or .16e at all)? > > All .16e gets you in 3.65 GHz is much more (30% more) latency, less > throughput per MHz, higher overhead and more cost. And you won't get any > hope for interoperability, indoor modems, USB dongles or PC cards, since > those are only applicable to licensed bands. > > > Patrick Leary > Aperto Networks > 813.426.4230 mobile > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Michael Baird > Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 11:22 AM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: [WISPA] Wimax gear > > We are looking for some more wimax gear to test for the 3.65 band, our > basic criteria would be 802.16e/mimo, we've tested Alvarion gear > already. We are looking for something that will work in an urban > environment with self install radios, can deliver voice and if possible > with PPP/NAT/DHCP in the radio rather then as an external gateway > device. If any dealers out there would like to chime in or hit me off > list I would appreciate it. > > Regards > Michael Baird > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > 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: [email protected] > > 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: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
