Jon, For sure I'm all over GPS for all licensed (world of small channels) and when there is a small amount of spectrum to work with in UL. For example, in the coming 3650MHz band, GPS should be a must for PMP. Same with scaled 900 (we offer it there). It is just not needed with VL. What for? It already gives massive capacity without any re-use. Even with GPS and re-use I do not think Canopy can get close to the amount of capacity VL can offer. Frankly, even if we had it for VL no one would buy it.
No argument from me on the scheduled MAC front, except to the extent that in UL it needs to come with good interference mitigation (not talking about self-inflicted interference) techniques to make it useful. Patrick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Langeler Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 10:37 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] vendor specs -- Jon Hey Patrick, GPS...there's many reasons and it's not a canopy vs alvarion debate from my standpoint, more so a scheduled mac(canopy, wimax, 3G...) vs unscheduled(wifi, VL, currently Trango). I'd predict that as wisp education progresses, they will realize the power of scheduled mac and GPS support. By then maybe the rest of the BreezeMAX code will have made way to the VL engineers and everyone can be happy :-) Jon Langeler Michwave Tech. Patrick Leary wrote: >Jon, > >Why is that the case? You really think GPS on Canopy is some cool >feature? Canopy must have GPS to function. Without it, it kills itself. >It is all to prevent self-inflicted interference (remember, Canopy does >not even have ATPC) and to allow for channel re-use. Other systems, like >VL, do not need it. It provides far more capacity than Canopy, so it >does not need to re-use channels and with basic channel planning you >don't have issues with self-interference. > >Patrick Leary >AVP WISP Markets >Alvarion, Inc. >o: 650.314.2628 >c: 760.580.0080 >Vonage: 650.641.1243 > > -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ ************************************************************************ ************ This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses(192). ************************************************************************ ************ ************************************************************************ ************ This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses(42). ************************************************************************ ************ ************************************************************************************ This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses. ************************************************************************************ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/