The future of municipal wireless, it seems to me, is dependent on policy decisions around 2155-2180 Mhz and white spaces.
It think both should be "lightly licensed" like 3650. Send in a registration. If it were lightly licensed, the 2150 band (with 20Mhz bandwidth) might feed 700 Mhz nodes (with 6 MHz bandwidth). Tell it to FCC Commissioner Jonathan S. Adelstein, when he's here on Oct 20th: (http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-286023A1.pdf) WHAT: Public Town Halls on the DTV Transition WHEN: October 20, 12:15-1 PM WHERE: Urban League Multi-Cultural Senior Center 5325 NE MLK Blvd. Portland, OR 97211 WHEN: October 20, 2-3:30 PM WHERE: Native American Cultural Center Portland State University 710 SW Jackson Street Portland, OR 97201 - Sam --------------------------- On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Tyler Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 60Ghz radios cost tens of thousands of dollars and can only operate up to > about 1/3 mile or less with direct line of site. This is with extremely > directional antennas, it would not work for the point to multipoint > distribution you would need to feed a mesh network. > Tyler Booth // President > ph. 503.548.2000 | fx. 503.548.2002 > 921 SW Washington St, Suite 224 > Portland OR 97205 > > On Oct 10, 2008, at 12:09 PM, Sam Churchill wrote: > > Skypilot has an interesting new approach; they use their 5.8 GHz > backhaul network, not for backhaul, but to deliver to end users. The > 5.8 GHz cpe connects to the current Skypilot access points and > Extender. > > (http://www.dailywireless.org/2008/09/30/skypilot-long-range-5ghz/) > > The only catch is the backhaul, of course. I suppose you might use > Mobile WiMAX (at 2.6GHz) -- but what would be the point? > > Wouldn't it be interesting if you could backhaul using a 1Gbps, > unlicensed 60Ghz radio. Then deliver 10 Mbps to Meraki/Open Mesh > boxes. A little academic, perhaps. > > Still that approach uses the unlicensed band all the way -- 60GHz > backhaul, 5.8GHz CPE, and 2.4 local distribution. > > - Sam > > > > > > > > > -- Sam Churchill (www.dailywireless.org) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/ Etiquette: http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MailingListEtiquette List information: http://lists.personaltelco.net To post to this group, send email to ptp-general@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
