dmh748
join:2002-03-07
Boston, MA | Is Covad's Nextweb next? Covad's Nextweb seems to be further along than anyone in actually rolling out Wimax, although not the mobile flavor.
Will Intel provide funding for them too, or are Covad/Nextweb too far along for any kind of "startup funding" ? |
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| I had nextweb for my business for about 3 months. We had 6 outages, including 1 complete day of no service. They were killing my company so I dropped them. I would stay away from them, if you need truly 99.999% up time |
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dmh748
join:2002-03-07
Boston, MA | Was that before or after Covad acquired them? Could you be more specific about the nature of the outage? Curious if it turned out to be server side equipment, client side equipment, random interference, or unknown and fixed itself ?
With the major broadcast networks using Covad/Nextweb for Wimax I'm guessing that these problems are now fixed.
See
»biz.yahoo.com/bw/060627/20060627···tml?.v=1
I've had Covad DSL for over 3 years at another location and it has been rock-solid, so I would assume that when their operations people take over management of Wimax they'll make it similarly rock-solid, if not already done. |
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| As someone with pretty good knowledge of Nextweb's network, it is not a large Wimax player yet. Actually a company available on a national basis (Towerstream) has a larger deployed base of Wimax.
As to the press release, most of those events only need broadband for a relatively short period of time, not long enough to notice the type of outages that will kill a business. As to major broadcast networks, if ABC pays for connection to an exec's home I can claim I have ABC for a client so it doesn't mean they actually supply meaningful service to any of the networks.
Covad is already publicly traded so funding is a bit different.
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