patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | low volume product, not backwards compatible with ANYTHING LTE has decades of backwards compatibility with GSM protocols/systems/provisioning/databases/billing, so minimal costs to upgrade backoffice equipment, and plenty of reuse of existing software. Plenty of opportunity for cheaper prices based on large volume of item manufactured/licensed (i'm forgetting the term here).
WiMAX has ethernet as its backwards compatibilty, which basically nothing. So for WiMAX there will always be a shadow over its head that if you make stuff for WiMAX, you need to charge higher prices to recoup $ because of the small market and small demand for WiMAX.
Lets think about LANs. Today everyone uses Ethernet (GSM). And Ethernet has been pushed along for ages (10->100->1000->10000->40000->100000) (GSM's vocoder, encryption algorithms, EDGE, UTMS). Wasn't ATM (TDMA IS-136) or FDDI (Flash-OFDM) or SONET (CDMA) or MPLS (UMB) supposed to be the successor for Ethernet? (cellular equivalents randomly assigned)
Why haven't any of those LAN standards taken off? |
