[opendtv] Re: WiFi Supplanting Broadcasting? Get Real!
- From: Bob Miller <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 11:18:30 -0400
Tom Barry wrote:
>| More dark fiber to the curb.
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>Why isn't fiber to the home more successful? I realize it takes time
>but over the last century we have pretty much taken water, sewer,
>electric, gas, phone, and cable to most homes. It would seem fiber
>would be the next choice to supply huge bandwidths to fixed locations.
> Does wireless have some other advantage over just fast installation?
>
>Wireless to me seems more suited to mobile or temporary applications.
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>- Tom
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Less expensive installation, no digging up of the street, less
maintenance, more physical security (if your beam width is narrow the
only way it can be intercepted would be with very visible boom on a
truck with a very visible dish intruding into the beam). It may be all
but impossible to connect two points via fiber which can be connected in
a few hours with wireless.
Also the absence of third parties, no landlords, no roof rights, no
fiber company in the street are necessary. This then is a problem when
there is a problem. You have to go back through these third parties to
find a location etc.
Current perceptions of wireless will be proved wrong IMO.
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