AT&T Beefs Up NY, NJ Wireless Networks > Close but no cigar

reply to SHABAZZ

Re: Close but no cigar

I have friends who work up in the New York market for AT&T mobility and that’s what they’re telling me. I know here in Seattle to they only have a couple of sites with a complete DS3. Remember to get a DS3 to a cell site you’re going to have to be close to a fiber ring you can’t deliver 37 mbps over twisted pair too far. And that info structure isn’t available for most cell sites. That’s why a lot of the carriers here are looking at microwave backhaul a few of the hardware manufactures sell gear that can go up to 1.6 GB per second.

You'd be surprised to find that many areas (not rooftops) may have microwave backhaul, and many rooftop sites may be tied into metro fiber loops.

I would expect many suburban monopoles to be T1/DS3 though.
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I’m not an expert on New York, all that I no about that area is what other people have told me. But in Seattle less then 10 percent of the metro buildings are hooked into the fiber ring. And the ones that are hooked up are full of data centers. And there aren’t very many monopoles or lattice towers with fiber backhaul capabilities.