RE: Speakeasy +WIMAX

Technically yes.....but there are too many new players now for the small, select few who have frequency coordination arrangements.

The fun part is when non-RF savy network engineers get ahold of microwave gear, and start pointing it all over the place.  They also drink the 30 mile marketing koolaid too;  they come up to me and ask what vendor I suggest for shooting through 20 miles of trees and through a hill.  Yea right.

It will be interesting to see how successful speakeasy is with their 5.8GHz unlicensed service.  While there is a bit of activity downtown in this band, I suspect that with noise tolerances and directional antennas, it wont get that bad.  Even in noisy environments, the stuff still works pretty well in the real world.  3 or 4 9's?  Maybe...but who knows.

There is no way in hell they are getting Nextel/Sprint 2.5GHz spectrum....now that they are one company, they are going to be done some really interesting stuff with WiMax in this band nationwide.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John 
> van Oppen (list account)
> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 8:16 PM
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> Subject: AW: Speakeasy +WIMAX
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> Does anyone know if there are any city wide frequency 
> coordination efforts in seattle?
> 
> John :)
> 
> 
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Jack Unger [mailto:[email protected]]
> Gesendet: Thursday, May 05, 2005 8:09 PM
> An: SeattleWireless Talk List
> Betreff: Re: Speakeasy +WIMAX
> 
> Not likely. Many new WISPs don't have a clue about noise, 
> interference, signal-to-noise ratio, throughput, 
> reliability... etc. What they do know about is equipment 
> manufacturer's marketing claims (30 miles, 
> none-line-of-sight, blah, blah, blah...)
>                          		  jack
> 
> Ralph Sims wrote:
> > http://www.speakeasy.net/business/wimax/coverage.php
> > 
> > I hope they've done their homework.  There's a LOT of 5.8 
> traffic in 
> > their proposed service area--including Fisher Plaza.  And 
> that's not 
> > including all the new 5.8GHz phone systems scattered around.
> > 
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