Crown is just the latest in a series of fiber-related acquisitions Crown has done.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Faisal Imtiaz" <fai...@snappytelecom.net> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2017 8:40:46 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] What my spies are talking about Just to add to that.... a) Take all what Brian said below, and add to it the fact that, in many cities they are very quietly installing Micro-Pops, every few blocks, fiber feed (essentially replacing street light poles with, poles which are light poles and micropops). b) The noise and developments in LTE-U c) The very strange, over-priced acquisition of FPL-Fibernet by Crown Castle d) Relatively quite conversion, installation of GPON system on every building that ATT had a Metro Ethernet presence in. e) Hype and noise about Gigabit fiber delivery, installation of fiber based service in select areas, ATT Conversion of their select IFTL neighborhoods to Gigabit fiber.. f) The rumblings about Cable Co's moving over the Docsis 3 Granted that this is not ubiquitous across the nation.. but I can see the competitive service providers could easily be starved out by the choke hold on being able to deliver/buy/have access to fat pipe especially in the middle mile. I think in most major metro areas the perceived minimum base level of service offering is going to hit high triple digit numbers in terms of bandwidth i.e. 200meg,300meg,500meg etc... we are already seeing customer expectations / perceptions around 100meg. Regards Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom 7266 SW 48 Street Miami, FL 33155 Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: supp...@snappytelecom.net ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brian Webster" <i...@wirelessmapping.com> > To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> > Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 11:46:38 PM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] What my spies are talking about > Remember, Verizon bought XO Communications. XO has 24 GHz and 39 GHz > spectrum over most of the country, so now Verizon owns that spectrum. They > seem to be taking the same approach Windstream and Google are for last mile > connectivity, but Verizon owns the spectrum. Windstream is leasing spectrum > in these same bands from Straightpath (http://straightpath39.com/) and > Google is looking to build in 70 and 80 GHz with E-Band licenses. All of > the sudden the WISP industry looks good enough for the big boys to do it > too. Cambridge Networks has PTMP radios for these bands already, 600 meg per > sector. Hang them on the fiber at the pole and create a very small cell type > system. This will work great for backhaul on their Pico cellular network > expansion for LTE/Cellular as well as a good tool for FTTH and Business > class circuits. > > http://cbnl.com/vectastar-600 > > http://cbnl.com/vectastar-platform-introduction > > > Thank You, > Brian Webster > www.wirelessmapping.com > www.Broadband-Mapping.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of Fred Goldstein > Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 3:19 PM > To: wireless@wispa.org > Subject: Re: [WISPA] What my spies are talking about > > On 1/25/2017 11:58 AM, Marco Coelho wrote: >> Some of my friends at Verizon are talking a major shift in their Fiber >> Deployment. >> They have decided Fiber to the Home is non practical. They have >> adopted a fiber to the pedestal scheme with the last part of the >> connectivity being wireless to the home. Details on bands used have >> not been provided, but that is apparently their new model. They have >> sold their copper plant in Texas to Frontier as a part of this plan. >> Interesting times. > > That's right. FiOS is basically over, for new builds. Too expensive. It is > mostly down to some FTTPR (fiber to the press release). They told Boston > that they would build FiOS there. Lots of good press last year. > But they actually had built out some neighborhoods about a decade ago, and > simply not activated it. So now they're activating it and claiming it's a > new build. But in the meantime they are planning massive densification of > their wireless capacity, using street light poles, and basically just > building fiber to the pole. They've told this to Wall Street; they haven't > made it clear to the locals. > > While 4G meant LTE, 5G apparently just means "whatever we do after deploying > LTE, because 5 comes after 4". > > ATT has this "IP transition" plan which doesn't have much to do with IP. > It basically means they're abandoning most of the copper, updating some > short loops to U-Verse, and putting in a lot more wireless to replace the > copper. It's not fiber speed but it's cheap. Both AT&T and Verizon are very > very interested in 3.5 GHz CBRS, as well as millimeter wave for where that > works. You may recall that a few months ago, AT&T announced a plan to put > millimeter wave backhaul on top of utility poles, beaming pole to pole > (about half a mile), and using the electrical wires as a sort of waveguide > to help the signal. > > > -- > Fred R. Goldstein k1io fred "at" interisle.net > Interisle Consulting Group > +1 617 795 2701 > > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > Wireless@wispa.org > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
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