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Washington, DC | I don't see the Vision What's the difference between this and the Wi-Fi home network? | |
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Alexandria, VA | Re: I don't see the Vision Nothing much from what I'm reading, except for the need to purchase new radios for everything that you want to communicate with. | |
| xenophon
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2 edits | What Comcast might do though is setup these WiMAX repeaters on top of apartment/condo buildings so that they don't have to wire up every unit. They can't do that with WiFi as reliably today for large buildings. They could even cover entire neighborhoods with one repeater.
And then you could have a WiMAX/WiFi router to cover all your devices. | |
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| Re: I don't see the Vision said by xenophon  :What Comcast might do though is setup these WiMAX repeaters on top of apartment/condo buildings so that they don't have to wire up every unit. Yeah, but it did say "femtocells" ... maybe that's only be half of the idea above.
If that's the case, I could see this vision as Comcast could also extend its footprint by 25 miles. It could deliver TeeVee on a Switch Digital basis (no "always on" broadcast) and still have room to spare for HSI and Phone.
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4 edits | Re: I don't see the Vision I think that's what they ultimately want to do. As part of the Sprint/Clearwire deal, they specifically wanted 5Mhz (out of 100Mhz+ per market) set aside for femtocells. While they may want these inside customer homes, the real application will be to cover entire building complexes or even neighborhoods.
Perhaps in return, Sprint/Clearwire/Xohm users will be able to roam on the Comcast femtocells without having to setup a separate account. And those with a Comcast account can roam as well.
If cities are willing to spend bucks to get into muniWiFi, they may as well offer free rent to WiMAX carriers to place WiMAX repeaters/femtocells on city streetlight poles. | |
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| said by funchords :What's the difference between this and the Wi-Fi home network? Wi-fi networks operate in unlicensed spectrum, wheres femtocells do use licensed spectrum. | |
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join:2005-03-09
Saint Clair Shores, MI
| said by funchords :What's the difference between this and the Wi-Fi home network? Lets see.. for starters, distance. Take a wifi card, walk away from the router and see how far you get. Now, do it with wimax. We are talking miles. Once the network is over lapped, well, I think you get it. | |
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