Lol - and wi-max isn't a shared medium and going to take the same hit at 3pm with all those kooky kids (ahmm you mean customers Mr Covad...?)
Bad PR spun wrong looking for a story (not that I'm against Wi-Max far from it) I just hate when marketing speople get involved. Regards, Dean Collins Cognation Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-212-203-4357 Ph +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial). > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nycwireless- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Kelley > Sent: Wednesday, 13 June 2007 1:33 PM > To: nycwireless@lists.nycwireless.net > Subject: [nycwireless] Article: Covad goes the last mile > > Hmm. Another suggestion about how to get off copper. How feasible is this? > > http://voxilla.com/soapvox/2007/06/08/covad-goes-the-last-mile-219 > > <snip> > When you're the only national DSL network in the U.S. what do you do for your > next act? > > You "disintermediate" the copper wire. In plain English, you take it out of the > equation. And the way you take it out is with fixed WiMax technology. That's the > idea right now at Covad, according to Director of Marketing Simon McIver. > > The SMB market is ripe for a new connection, according to McIver. Small and mid- > size businesses are "waking up" to the fact that consumer broadband services don't > cut it for business applications like POS systems, Web servers, or even office > email. > > "The problem with cable and DSL is that it's a shared line." That means that things > may work smoothly at 9:00 a.m. when kids are in school, but slow down at 3:00 > p.m. when they get out and hit the MMOGs (massively multiplayer online games). > > A traditional solution is "a good old fashioned T1 line with 1.5 megabytes locked in," > explains McIver. "It's consistent, it's always there." But for small businesses, it's a > prohibitively costly solution. > > That's where fixed WiMax comes in. Unlike WiFi, WiMax can deliver the assured > bandwidth and higher reliability of a T1 with a lot less infrastructure. WiMax also > has wider range and better coverage than WiFi - especially indoors. > </snip> > -- > NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ > Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ > Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
