I have been involved with this for a while. It is simply "Muni WiFi", but owned/operated/funded by the local cableco. The cable companies have been stringing up strand-powered APs for a few years along some of their routes. In underground areas they have some that are mounted below the surface with the antenna mounted flat under the cover to the enclosure. Most of the rest look like cable amplifiers with a couple of short (6") white plastic antennas. Some companies are using Cisco gear, like the model 1522 but Bel Air Networks is Comcast's choice. Comcast has Philly done. Optimum Cable and Time Warner have done lots of NY and NJ. All this says is that, since cablecos are really not competitors in the same market, why the heck not make a deal where they add each other's SSIDs on all the networks.
The hope is that they will get lots of money for cellular offload of data from phones over WiFi as the cell companies strike deals with the cablecos. When I have tried the NY/NJ systems, I can use my Comcast cable login from back in Georgia and I get around 1-7 Mb/S. For WISPS, the downside of this is that there are hundreds, if not thousands of WiFi devices located at street level, most running maximum power and transmitting on 2.4 and 5.7 GHz, thus raising the noise floor to tremendous levels. One project I am working on is a City surveillance camera network and the noise from these now has the noise level on my rooftops up to between -80 and -87 and any backhaul that was on 5.8 now is faced with worse noise than that in the direction the dish is pointed. ralph -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Paolo Di Francesco Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 7:13 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] Cable companies agree to nationwide Wi-Fi roaming deal, , Read more: Cable companies agree to nationwide Wi-Fi roaming deal - FierceWireless http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/cable-companies-agree-nationwide-wi-fi-r oaming-deal/2012-05-21?utm_med http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/cable-companies-agree-nationwide-wi-fi-r oaming-deal/2012-05-21?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss anybody can comment on this? is it real 2.4Ghz or some form of "licensed-picocell" ? Thank you -- Ing. Paolo Di Francesco Level7 s.r.l. unipersonale Sede operativa: Largo Montalto, 5 - 90144 Palermo C.F. e P.IVA 05940050825 Fax : +39-091-8772072 assistenza: (+39) 091-8776432 web: http://www.level7.it _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2176 / Virus Database: 2425/5014 - Release Date: 05/21/12 _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
