[opendtv] Re: WiFi Supplanting Broadcasting? Get Real!
- From: "Kon Wilms" <kon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 15:05:58 -0700
>I wanted to say the same thing to them that you say to Eliott, "get
real". They seemed to think they were hot stuff because they are
starting to deploy VOIP. While friends I talk to are designing megaband
wireless networks that bypass them all.
As VoWiFi, VoDSL, or ? Just deploying VOIP is insane, since you're not
saving anything in terms of costs and eliminating switching equipment at the
CO.
> regulators are going through then, yes, Wi-Fi will supplant broadcasting
including cable and satellite.
I still don't see how, unless you have a meshnet MAN in place. If not you
have to start dolling out high power APs to everyone with directional
antennas. 10000 viewers connected to a WiFi 'broadcasting' station would
have an available bitrate of *zero* since the link would be saturated with
router discovery and other IP low-level OSI comms overhead. The only way to
combat this is to roll out a mesh, and the amount of sites to maintain would
no doubt make it cost-prohibitive.
Cheers
Kon
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