Hi, Mike - Invitation accepted, with some hesitation:
"Please post your thoughts about the mobile wireless data market as you think them out."
Many of the posts on this thread use the term "network". The problem is one of definition, I suppose: there are networks within networks, each with its own set of protocols, and transport mechanisms. I had in mind the possibility of setting up a network, ie., one domain that had within it a consistent set of protocols. My thinking was that, within that domain, data could speed through the switching process without having to change from one set of boxcars to another (to use a railway analogy) - as far as that is practical.
The other aspect of such a network was that it would have to be all-encompassing: it would have to cover cellphone, fixed wireless, mobile wireless, and fiber.
In discussing mobile wireless, inevitably one gets to the point where one transport mechanism is overlaid on a number of others, each one being discontinuous with the other: a patchwork.
My thought was: What if... a whole new network was set up, incorporating fixed and mobile coverage from sea to sea, and uniform standards within that domain?
Thus my post -
Message 13246400
Today, Marden Marshall posted some links to the OnSat service, together with coverage maps -
onsatnet.com
biz.yahoo.com
My point here, is that if you overlay the OnSat coverage with Telia fiber to 120plus American cities, you now have the mechanism for a true network: the only thing lacking is the incorporation of a cellphone technology. Such a system would be able to implement VoIP and QoS across its domain.
This is not an effort to hype anything in particular. It's an attempt to begin the discussion of mobile wireless from the viewpoint of a practical, achievable ideal, and then to hang our thoughts from that. To me, the present piecemeal approach offers no clear vision, no structure.
I will now withdraw to the changing room, and don the asbestos suit.
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