[opendtv] Re: WiFi Supplanting Broadcasting? Get Real!
- From: Bob Miller <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 19:45:22 -0400
A multiGbps meshnet MAN will be in place by the end of the year in
Manhattan. I don't think it will be cost prohibited.
Kon Wilms wrote:
>>I wanted to say the same thing to them that you say to Eliott, "get
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>real". They seemed to think they were hot stuff because they are
>starting to deploy VOIP. While friends I talk to are designing megaband
>wireless networks that bypass them all.
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>As VoWiFi, VoDSL, or ? Just deploying VOIP is insane, since you're not
>saving anything in terms of costs and eliminating switching equipment at the
>CO.
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>>regulators are going through then, yes, Wi-Fi will supplant broadcasting
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>including cable and satellite.
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>I still don't see how, unless you have a meshnet MAN in place. If not you
>have to start dolling out high power APs to everyone with directional
>antennas. 10000 viewers connected to a WiFi 'broadcasting' station would
>have an available bitrate of *zero* since the link would be saturated with
>router discovery and other IP low-level OSI comms overhead. The only way to
>combat this is to roll out a mesh, and the amount of sites to maintain would
>no doubt make it cost-prohibitive.
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>Cheers
>Kon
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