Fiber to the AP is a great idea and the only way we will be able to meet customer demand. Within 1 year I don't think I'll have any towers that are more than 1 hop from fiber, with many directly on fiber.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com On 1/26/2012 10:22 PM, John Scrivner wrote: > Here are my predictions based partly upon the acquisitions we have > seen of Atheros by Qualcomm and now this latest play into Wifi by > otherwise generally licensed zealots of the mobile world: > > The large mobile carrier equipment companies will supply Wifi > solutions to the national players who will then build Wifi micro-cell > infrastructure out using this commodity priced platform. Then these > same equipment makers will develop a "New and Improved" line of > pico-base LTE boxes at a better margin than the Wifi-only APs but much > less than their LTE macro-base equivalents. Cellcos, cablecos, etc. > will then replace their Wifi-only micro-cell APs with dual mode Wifi > and LTE pico-bases to enable the benefits of Wifi and cellular both > while removing the disadvantages from either platform for their needs. > > I believe that this move will enable the melding of fixed and mobile > wireless broadband enabling WISPs to finally get into this dual game. > Those best positioned to take advantage of this will be fiber to the > home operators who are also WISPs who will then build out "Fiber to > the Access Point" and deliver the "Last 1000 feet" wirelessly to their > customers. With an infrastructure model like this ISPs can deliver the > capacity needed for customers to supply voice, video and data while > eliminating one of the terribly expensive parts of the FTTH platform > invoking the drops to the homes. > > I predict we'll see all this come to pass by 2017-18. We'll see how > clear my crystal ball is in a few years. I hope you guys will remember > this then and be sure to pull it up and make fun of me for being so > far off....or not! :-) > John Scrivner > > > > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Jack Unger<jun...@ask-wi.com> wrote: >> In a sure sign that the cellular industry is getting serious about Wi-Fi, >> telecom networking giant Ericsson is buying BelAir Networks, adding its >> high-performance outdoor hotspot technology to its portfolio, sources told >> GigaOM. The deal could signal a big shift in the mindset of the big wireless >> vendors, which have always favored their own specialized and expensive >> cellular technologies to meet growing mobile data demand rather than more >> generic but much cheaper Wi-Fi tech... >> >> <http://gigaom.com/broadband/ericsson-pursuing-wi-fi-with-belair-networks-buy/> >> >> -- >> Jack Unger - President, Ask-Wi.Com, Inc. >> Author (2003) - "Deploying License-Free Wireless Wide-Area Networks" >> Serving the WISP Community since 1993 >> www.ask-wi.com 818-227-4220 jun...@ask-wi.com >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
