Bernard - Thanks for the heads-up; unfortunately, I missed the article. I'm in the middle of my own Last Mile conundrum: I'm moving, and have to switch from ADSL to @Home.
To be blunt, I erred in posting information about Wi-LAN in this discussion. I do not intend to advocate any company's technology in this discussion. I recently took a position in Wi-LAN, after a hiatus, but if the discussion descends to company-versus-company advocacy, then we will never get anywhere. (The implication being that it is possible to resolve the matter, at all: a questionable premise).
The factual point of the inclusion was that the "network" or domain, ideal was achievable, and not fanciful, that a future commitment to a fibre network might aggregate along its length companies and technologies that adhere to a network "vision", and that vision would necessarily include a mobile Last Mile solution. Mike and I discussed the concept earlier: it would devolve to several domains with differing, but not incompatible protocols, and the cost realities would subject the competing visions to a Darwinian selection process.
Necessarily, such domains would meet at the cross-connect, where, as Frank has pointed out, they would again be subject to transmission rates at the lowest common denominator. |
