WiMax: will replace the cable connection?

Jeff Thompson, afraid of heights, but he stood on the Empire State Building 81 level platform it is very comfortable.

From 1000 feet high overlooking the distance to the direction, Thompson said he had the entire New York as his company 鈹?鈹?TowerStream the battlefield, through the issuance of low-cost access to services, TowerStream will compete with telephone companies to adjust the Internet business customers.

Beside him is a fixed railings on TowerStream antenna, a few kilometers away to the high-speed wireless Internet access businesses. Many technology experts say that the telecommunications industry, wireless systems can eliminate the bottleneck of the most annoying: the telephone company in control of the Internet to connect the "last mile" 鈹?鈹?from the switching stations to homes and offices of the line. Thompson said that our competitors are the Bells, we must act quickly.

As the five cities have 700 customers, TowerStream is the WiMax industry, the most active companies. And Wi-Fi is different, WiMax broadband Internet through a fixed antenna connection. Using the maximum power of the device, installed in tall buildings can be an antenna 30 miles away to the user to transfer data, even though the distance is the best half of that figure children. Wireless signals and antennas will not be bad weather.

Price is another advantage of the system. TowerStream's 1.54Mbps connection costs 500 U.S. dollars per month, compared with telephone companies to provide the T1 connection one-third to one-cheap. As the need from Verizon and other Bell companies lease small connection, TowerStream connection can further reduce the price.

Because it is a new technology to make customers use the technology is a challenge. However, since June this year, TowerStream have achieved profitability.

Negotiations with the Empire State Building TowerStream spent more than two years time, due to high very high, TowerStream coverage includes all companies in New York. Many analysts point out that Thompson's optimism is justified. It said the WiMax Forum, the global wireless high-speed Internet services market is about 400 million U.S. dollars, in the next few years this market could grow four-fold.

Located in the center of the enterprise is the main target TowerStream, but the lack of broadband connections in the suburbs is TowerStream target market. In these areas, the antenna can be set up to broadcast transmission towers and mobile phone network tower. WiMax has also been introduced to the fiber optic and copper cables to connect relatively rare in developing countries.

WiMax and wireless broadband connections may be Verizon, SBC and other giant impact, but will not make them out of broadband connectivity market. Large enterprises 鈹?鈹?brokerage firms and banks in particular, attaches great importance to the security of data lines, small companies may be WiMax as the main data lines, but for most businesses, WiMax is a fixed-line and reliable data backup, can not completely replace the fixed data line. President of Senza Fili Consulting, said Monica, WiMax will be useful in the small business market, they like the flexibility of wireless data lines.

WiMax's expansion will be limited. Because it uses the common channel, rather than the authorized channel, if the providers in a market, sending too many signals will interfere with each other. In addition, the mobile phone operators may also increase the speed of their networks, enhance competition and WiMax.

For home users, WiMax's price too high, the price of only one antenna as high as 500. Phone companies and cable companies have started to provide price is only 20 dollars per month for broadband connectivity.

"WiMax Forum" is only approved to provide broadband connectivity to fixed antennas, the standard, has not worked out for the user laptops and other mobile devices to connect using the WiMax standard.

The biggest promoter of WiMax standard is Intel. The company's executive vice president of wireless business, said Sean, Dang mobile WiMax standard is 鎵瑰噯 鍚? WiMax providers will be able to move Zuoye the user Ti Gong Xiang Si high-speed connectivity and fixed the connection service. The advent of mobile WiMax standard will allow Intel and equipment manufacturers can increase productivity, reduce product prices, which will help the popularity of WiMax.








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