Re: Future of WiMax

2010-07-01 Thread Rogelio
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Dennis Burgess wrote: > Just what is going on in the WISP industry for the most part.  802.11n > so far on point-2-point links, are working quite well, cheap hardware as > well as ease of use is playing factors in this.  We are seeing 10+ mile > N links running 60

Re: Future of WiMax

2010-06-30 Thread J Wytt
They have not claimed this. The option to change is there if LTE becomes a better long term solution but no one has said it will happen (or even probably). Either way, both technologies will continue to develop and both will be viable players in the marketplace for quite some time. On Wed, Jun 1

Re: Future of WiMax

2010-06-18 Thread joel jaeggli
other devices so don't think for a second you're going to get 170Mb/s down and 80Mb/s up. LTE speeds are much more comparable to Wimax. -Original Message- From: Holmes,David A [mailto:dhol...@mwdh2o.com] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 10:16 AM To: Seth Mattinen; nanOG list Subj

RE: Future of WiMax

2010-06-18 Thread Akyol, Bora A
Mattinen; nanOG list Subject: RE: Future of WiMax For business purposes such as fixed wireless access for small branch offices, it would seem that Wi-Max is superior to current GSM and CDMA proprietary networks in that the upload/download speeds are symmetric. It appears that GSM and CDMA networks

RE: Future of WiMax

2010-06-17 Thread Holmes,David A
For business purposes such as fixed wireless access for small branch offices, it would seem that Wi-Max is superior to current GSM and CDMA proprietary networks in that the upload/download speeds are symmetric. It appears that GSM and CDMA networks are based on the asymmetric low upload bandwidth/h

Re: Future of WiMax

2010-06-17 Thread Jared Mauch
On Jun 17, 2010, at 10:00 AM, Bret Clark wrote: > On 06/17/2010 09:46 AM, Dennis Burgess wrote: >> Lots of my clients (Wireless ISPs) have looked into deploying it, >> however the costs are well over 20 times the cost of a unlicensed system >> per access point. >> > Yeah...that is really the c

RE: Future of WiMax

2010-06-17 Thread Dennis Burgess
-735-0270 Website: http://www.linktechs.net LIVE On-Line Mikrotik Training - Author of "Learn RouterOS" -Original Message- From: Bret Clark [mailto:bcl...@spectraaccess.com] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 9:00 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Future of WiMax On 06/17/20

Re: Future of WiMax

2010-06-17 Thread Bret Clark
On 06/17/2010 09:46 AM, Dennis Burgess wrote: Lots of my clients (Wireless ISPs) have looked into deploying it, however the costs are well over 20 times the cost of a unlicensed system per access point. Yeah...that is really the crux of the problem. Every WISP I know would switch over in a h

RE: Future of WiMax

2010-06-17 Thread Dennis Burgess
otik Training - Author of "Learn RouterOS" -Original Message- From: Rubens Kuhl [mailto:rube...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 2:48 PM To: Seth Mattinen Cc: nanOG list Subject: Re: Future of WiMax The future of WiMAX seems a lot less promising now that FD-LTE is the cl

Re: Future of WiMax

2010-06-16 Thread Curtis Maurand
they've already claimed they'll probably switch to LTE. They said it was just a software change to do that. Of course the standard for actually placing a phone call on it (LTE) has yet to finalized. On 6/16/2010 3:40 PM, Gregory Hicks wrote: Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:35:16 -0700 From:

RE: Future of WiMax

2010-06-16 Thread Murphy, Jay, DOH
attinen Cc: nanOG list Subject: Re: Future of WiMax The future of WiMAX seems a lot less promising now that FD-LTE is the clear winner for wide-scale mobile deployment, and TD-LTE, 802.11n and proprietary technologies will compete for non-paired spectrum and/or niche markets. But one can build

Re: Future of WiMax

2010-06-16 Thread Rubens Kuhl
The future of WiMAX seems a lot less promising now that FD-LTE is the clear winner for wide-scale mobile deployment, and TD-LTE, 802.11n and proprietary technologies will compete for non-paired spectrum and/or niche markets. But one can build a network with WiMAX and make money out of it; global m

Re: Future of WiMax

2010-06-16 Thread Gregory Hicks
> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:35:16 -0700 > From: Seth Mattinen > > WiMax sounds promising, but I certainly don't hear a lot about it other > than Sprint/Clear. Is it just that everyone that's doing wireless is > sticking with relatively inexpensive 802.11 a/b/g/n products, or is > WiMax really a