SumDumGuy
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join:2002-06-16
Auburn, CA
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| What I wanna know is...
If they can make this work reliably on poles great, but what about all the areas with underground lines?
I think, please correct me if I'm wrong, but if they can get it to work reliably on poles the next step would be to test in some underground areas. wouldn't this also involve digging up the underground transformers and such to expand the spot they're in to contain the equipment? Although I would imagine they have those spots made large enough to allow for some expansion.
Either way, things are looking up, if they can make this work then maybe we can get some competition in the areas that companies like Comcast have a monopoly on broadband. Like mine.
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evoxfan
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Daleville, AL | plus, this gives people hope that doesn't have broadband available to them now because they live in the country.
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rf_engineer
join:2003-08-04
USA
| said by evoxfan  :
plus, this gives people hope that doesn't have broadband available to them now because they live in the country.
It's really questionable whether it will. The business model for deployments in rural areas is tough. When you consider that BPL has less of a range than cable and DSL, costs to backhaul the network are significant. Also, repeaters cost anywhere from $1k to $5k. If you need a repeater every 100 yards or so, and there's only one subscriber every quarter mile, it's tough to have this system pay itself off anytime soon. It's very likely if you don't have cable passing your house, you'll never see BPL.
If BPL was a long haul technology such that it could transport data tens of miles (as many people erroneously perceive), it might have a chance in rural deployments, however it's far from being able to do that. Add to that the considerable interference concerns and the five or six years they've been trying to get this to work, BPL has a difficult future ahead. |
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