| Wimax Cell Site Issues To add briefly to the "Planning Comment", Yes they should have for seen this in there planning. It's a little disturbing that the engineers didn't catch this. In the case of WiMax Cell Sites your "back haul" can / will be your weakest link in overall QOS. I have to give Sprint some credit as they are the first to be creating a massive wireless upgrade with this huge bandwidth backhaul required. I'm quite sure the other LTE providers wont admit this possible short-coming for them aswell and looking at Sprint's choice of overall backhaul set-up. I will play devils advocate and say that for the LTE future providers (VZ) I'm quite sure there will be fiber-back hauls directly to strategic towers. FYI - Most current cell-sites do not have fiber access and will not due to there locations. At some towers it will just not be cost-effective to have fiber ran to them. Just because an existing T1 is there doesn't mean there's fiber there or can be placed there easily. And there's a vast amount of towers that are already fed PtP wireless because they couldn't bring copper (T1) to location. But with this new wireless broadband frontier, your backhaul is going to be your very critical part of your network to deliver that customer promised QoS. FYI - The top backhaul players such as Dragonwave & Ceragon, can run from 10-20K for a single tower, and that may not include a back-up unit, so it's very costly, multiply that by 30-50 towers for a metro area ...whew costly ... anyway ... just my two cents! |
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| said by wimax1 :
It's a little disturbing that the engineers didn't catch this. It's a bit unfair to say this. We don't know what the engineers did or didn't catch. A lot of times engineers' plans are changed by the paper pushers "managing" them.
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