Re: 5G roadblock: labor

[Etienne-Victor Depasquale <edepa () ieee org>]

I think that the argument about the need for basic research should be
orthogonal to individuals' vision of demand.

I would say that this holds true for applied research and development too.
I'd add that we tend to place too much importance on our individual visions.

On the other hand, applied research should be conditioned by the facility
of adoption of the presumed development in the market.



On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 3:41 PM <jdambrosia () gmail com> wrote:

> Ultimately this will come down to market demand.
>
> Having led two efforts in IEEE to develop a next speed of Ethernet - I have
> heard the argument about needing the next speed of Ethernet.  Ultimately,
> market demand showed that it was necessary and we had done the right thing
> developing the next speed.
>
> So given the cost of deployment - will the business case to deploy 5G
> happen?  Had lots of conversations with people on this.  Would like to
> better understand this as we start to look beyond 400GbE - as bandwidth
> related to 5G is frequently brought up.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG <nanog-bounces () nanog org> On Behalf Of Matt Hoppes
> Sent: Monday, December 30, 2019 9:24 AM
> To: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu>
> Cc: nanog () nanog org
> Subject: Re: 5G roadblock: labor
>
> We saw this with Femtocells. Why build the network when the end user will
> build it with their broadband connection?
>
> With 5G - if I need fiber to the pole already and the pole has to be
> within.
> Few hundred feet of the end user, why not just deploy fiber to the home?
> Do I really need a gigabit per second on my mobile device?

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Ing. Etienne-Victor Depasquale
Assistant Lecturer
Department of Communications & Computer Engineering
Faculty of Information & Communication Technology
University of Malta
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