[opendtv] Re: Wireless broadband and cellular
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:34:26 -0500
At 6:18 PM -0500 2/10/10, Albert Manfredi wrote:
I think you are automatically linking "cellular techniques" with
"telcos," which is logically incorrect. The reason why wireless
broadband will likely be a cellular system is that cellular provides
the high density wireless links with credibly high bit rates. The
small cells make this feasible.
Good point Bert.
A matter of perspective. Femtocells are an intrinsic part of the
cellular network. They take traffic off the outdoor macrocell and
move it to a smaller (usually for indoor use) femtocell. But
ultimately, all of these techniques move traffic onto a wired
network, whether they be large or tiny cells, or the functionally
equivalent WiFi local nets. So technically, all of these wireless
techniques do exactly the same thing.
They may do the same thing, but this does not alter the fact that the
goal is to take traffic off of the cellular networks that are
struggling to keep up with bandwidth demands. When you use Wi-Fi hot
spots and Femtocells, you take traffic off of the "macrocells."
Regards
Craig
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