On 2/10/2014 10:21 AM, Matt Hoppes wrote:
So what about the cell companies that use 5GHz for a quick back haul while waiting for their license to come in?
Not the ones commenting in favor of the proposal. I suppose the old Motorola might have understood that, but Cambium now owns the unlicensed stuff, while MotSol sells extravagantly expensive P25 radios. And you don't want to know what their dispatch console (really a PC application) sells for.
To most of the WiFi crowd, unlicensed wireless is just indoors. That's all most consumers, at least in urban areas, see. Of course they don't know that we're using those bands for urban public safety applications too (which is what I am up to). The WiFi Alliance is obsessing about 802.11ac, and wants four 160 MHz wide channels for indoor use. So uniform rules make that easier, so that all of the channel is under one rule. And to hell with everyone else. After all, if you're out in the boonies at the end of a WISP link, you probably don't need 802.11ac in your home anyway.
Personally, I think that 11n is fast enough for normal WLAN use, and for those super-fast short haul indoor applications like HD video monitors, WiGig at 60G is more promising. It's just a matter of getting the cost down and into mass production. The new 60G rules are interesting too, for those shorter outdoor hops (<1 mile). The +82 dBm EIRP cap is quite generous. But boy does 52dBi antenna alignment matter.
-- Fred R. Goldstein k1io fred "at" interisle.net Interisle Consulting Group +1 617 795 2701
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