[LINK] The PLAN, and broadband speeds?

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Richard Chirgwin wrote:
> Stephen Loosley wrote:
>> At 10:33 AM 19/06/2007, Saliya Wimalaratne writes:
>>
>>  
>>>> Has anyone seen the detail of this 'new' 'plan'?  Jan
>>>>       
>>> in general, the longer the range, the lower the frequencies used
>>> (and the lower the bandwidth available per 'channel').. There are
>>> guys overseas that have done a 5GHz 300km WLAN point-to-point
>>> ink that they tested at about 5Mbps throughput - but they were using 
>>> 600mW of tx power, what is claimed to be 'the best' receive sensitive
>>> equipment in the world, and what looked like about 35dB of homemade
>>> antenna gain - an EIRP of about 175W! Regards, Saliya
>>>     
>>
>> With regards to "The PLAN", perhaps it may include mesh-arrangements?
>>   
> I think not, and you (ie, Stephen as an individual user) would much 
> prefer a point-to-point connection than being part of a mesh. That way, 
> your tail bandwidth is your own (or at worst shared between X users in 
> the same antenna footprint).
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A spokeswoman for Austar (one of the unsuccessful bidders and holder of 
spectrum below the "public" spectrum) was talking to Fran Kelly this 
morning.

It seemed the winning bid may be based on LAN WiFi rather than WAN 
WiMAX. I think Mobility was thrown in for good measure and there is 
still an issue of how the backbone will be provided - satellite or cable?

Guess this is the big network architecture question.

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