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more on OUTSIDE THE BOX: Wi-Fi Is Dead, Long Live Wi-Max
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 10:13:20 -0400
Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 09:59:40 -0400 From: "David P. Reed" <dpreed () reed com> Subject: Re: [IP] OUTSIDE THE BOX: Wi-Fi Is Dead, Long Live Wi-Max X-Sender: mail.reed.com:dpreed@127.0.0.1 To: dave () farber net, ip () v2 listbox comThe idea that WiMax replaces WiFi is like thinking that 18 Wheelers replace private automobiles, or a saw replaces a screwdriver. That such ideas even pass muster in the "press" is a comment on how little the technology press understands the technology it covers. (of course the marketers who tell the press how to think are guilty, too - the idea that the prefix "Wi" means seems to be "hot new technology that ought to boost the stock price like -tronics used to").
What WiMax might replace is coaxial cable or DSL copper, or the fantasy of FTTH - certainly the companies that leverage themselves by huge junk bond issues to put infrastructure in the ground are vulnerable to a high-performance, cheap to deploy, rapidly depreciable alternative. In a stretch it might compete for 3G's slot in the world (if they change the underlying physical layer to compensate for 60 mph mobility).
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