Jerm
join:2000-04-10
Richland, WA
| Cringly .... riiiiighhhhhtttt
Cringly should always be taken with a grain of salt. A few years ago the DSLR group here caught him basically lying about a passive wireless lan repeater. I guess you could call it creative journalism 
In this article he gets everything pretty much right, but to complain a WIRELESS internet company uses *gasp* WIRELESS links between it's towers instead of a wired "T1" as he put it is just plain stupid!
Point to Point microwave works great. Hell the phone companies still use the same technology. |
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phattieg
join:2001-04-29
Winter Park, FL
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| said by Jerm  :Point to Point microwave works great. Hell the phone companies still use the same technology. Very much true, and they do it well. The cell towers are mostly powered by microwave, and handle floods of calls each day. Microwave technology does not have horrible latency like other wireless technologies, and thats why they still use it. To make a comment like he did about "WIRELESS links between it's towers instead of a wired T1" doesn't say anything bad to us, not to mention I am GLAD it's not a wired T1, because some of these towers would crawl if they had a T1, he's thinking more along the lines of multiple T1's per tower, or a T3. I love when morons babble, it just gives us stupidity to pick on for days.
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MTC_Wes
join:2004-04-22
Fergus, ON
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"to speed deployment they use microwave point to point" - Of course they would... and microwave is far better in many ways than wireline. I've worked on many cellular sites that have protected (redundant) OC-3 (or bigger) microwave link.. how many T1's in a OC-3?? Lots.. and how long do you think it would take ma bell to pull in oc-3 to every cell site? alot longer than the 3 weeks it take the cell companies to provision a microwave OC3... - end rant- |
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