Anyone know anything about the white space implementation in Claudville Virginia?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "George Ou" <george_ou () lanarchitect net>
Date: February 3, 2010 4:33:34 AM EST
To: "'Richard Bennett'" <richard () bennett com>
Cc: <dave () farber net>, "Brett Glass" <brett () lariat net>, "Dale Hatfield" <busdale () earthlink net>
Subject: RE: Anyone know anything about the white space implementation in Claudville Virginia?

That would be my guess.  But if that’s true, seems like they’re just using white spaces for the sake of using it.  It’s 
notable that they’re not using WS for the access layer.  If we listened to some of the advocates, they make it sound 
like this 4 watt ERP solution is going to replace LTE and Wi-Fi combined.
 
From: Richard Bennett [mailto:richard () bennett com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 1:15 AM
To: George Ou
Cc: dave () farber net; Brett Glass; Dale Hatfield
Subject: Re: Anyone know anything about the white space implementation in Claudville Virginia?
 
It's probably like microwave with directional antennas, but I don't really know. 

On 2/2/2010 10:02 PM, George Ou wrote:
http://broadcastengineering.com/news/nations-first-white-spaces-network-live-rural-virginia-1026/
 
> From what I am reading, they’re using Wi-Fi for the access layer and White Spaces for backhaul.  I’m assuming that 
> it’s some type of point-to-point connection with very directional antennas, but not sure if it’s using line of sight 
> or if it’s simply throwing out a signal in a general direction and using refraction to get to the other side.  If it 
> was just using line of sight, it would seem that the use of 700 MHz is a waste since you could achieve the same thing 
> with 5 GHz and not have to worry about TV interference.
 
 
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Richard Bennett
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