So this is working out exactly as I predicted. Investment in FTTH will only
happen in dense urban areas where the ROI can be justified - note that dense
urban areas will be more difficult to serve with 5G wireless (many more cells
required and in the urban canyons it may not be possible to use line of site
fixed services.
Interesting that G.Fast is still in the mix, but it makes sense - bring fiber
to the building then use G.fast over existing copper within the building.
Bert is probably scratching his head about the DirecTV over 5G trial...
Regards
Craig
On Jan 26, 2017, at 7:44 PM, Manfredi, Albert E
<albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Interesting. So this is the way fixed and mobile wireless broadband will
probably evolve. First step, fixed wireless. Looks like AT&T is covering
every option: wireless mobile and fixed, FTTH, and G.fast to continue using
existing voice grade lines.
Bert
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http://www.tvtechnology.com/news/0002/att-plans-directv-now-over-5g-in-austin/280199
AT&T Plans DirecTV Now Over 5G in Austin
More g.fast over copper deployments planned for this year as well
January 24, 2017
By Deborah D. McAdams
NEW YORK-AT&T is gearing up for a trial to deliver DirecTV Now in Austin via
5G wireless broadband in the first half of 2017. The cell network giant said
it also planned to test "additional next-generation entertainment services of
fixed 5G connections." AT&T said the trial will comprise multiple sites and
devices and focus on how fixed wireless millimeter wave technology handles
heavy video traffic.
AT&T laid out its 5G strategy for the year earlier this month and said that
in initial lab trials, they had achieved 14 Gbps with less than 3
milliseconds of latency, under the "industry expectation" of 5 milliseconds.
It said that continued development of 4G LTE was integral to "laying the
foundation" for 5G, or fifth-generation cellular transmission technology.The
provider said it expected to reach "peak theoretical speeds" of 1 Gbps at
some 4G LTE cell sites this year, and planned to deploy more small cell nodes
and carrier aggregation, a method said to increase peak data speeds.
"We're currently deploying three-way carrier aggregation in select areas, and
plan to introduce four-way carrier aggregation as well as LTE-License
Assisted Access this year," the carrier said on its 5G progress website.
The DirecTV experiment in Austin comes after AT&T said it conducted its first
5G business trial there last fall Intel and Ericsson using millimeter wave
technology over unlicensed spectrum, and achieving 1 Gbps up- and downloads
in the first phase. Additional mobile and fixed 5G trials are planned for
this year in conjunction with Ericsson and Qualcomm.
"These trials are significant because they will be our first trials to use
what we expect to be based upon the 5G New Radio specification being
developed by the industry technology standards group 3GPP. Industry standards
are important to enabling wide-scale 5G commercialization. The trials will
test both mobile and fixed wireless solutions operating in mmWave spectrum
accelerating commercial deployments in the 28 Ghz and 39 Ghz bands. (See "FCC
Opens High Frequencies to Phone Companies," July 14, 2016) They will showcase
new 5G radio mmWave technologies for increasing network capacity while
achieving multi-gigabit data rates."
In October 2016, AT&T announced a "multi-dwelling unit fixed wireless
point-to-point mmWave trial in Minneapolis," to reach customers outside of
its 21-state wireline area, and it planned on "exploring additional markets
for trial locations."
In the wired world, AT&T said it was delivering 100 percent fiber-carried 1
Gbps (more like 940 Mbps with overhead) to "nearly 4 million locations across
46 metros nationwide," and that by mid-2019, it planned on having "at least
12.5 million locations across 67 metro areas with our 100 percent fiber
network."
The carrier noted that is also hasn't thrown in the towel on copper, and that
it continues to conduct g.fast experiments, notably in a multi-dwelling unit,
also in Minneapolis. G.fasttechnology is said to enable fiber speeds over
existing copper lines. AT&T said it planned more g.fast deployments this year
where it still has copper lines.
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