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
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+61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial).
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Sent: Wednesday, 13 June 2007 1:33 PM
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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>
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