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To: Peter Ecclesine who wrote (19057)	1/22/2007 12:48:54 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

Hi Peter. I guess my question could have been clearer. I once listed about twenty-five uses of the term backhaul on Gilder's forum (in the global networks section, iirc). I'll rephrase the question later, when I get this alligator off my arse, which only crept up on me while I was typing out 'iirc.'

To: Peter Ecclesine who wrote (19057)	1/22/2007 2:23:29 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

Damned telephone. Ok, I understand WiFi's backhaul capabilities within local settings, such as neighborhood networks, cafes and cityscale municipal clouds, where the backhauling of networked traffic is to a single or multiple donor sites (whether legitimate or renegade, it doesn't matter). Or it could be a part of a mesh topology, where backhaul is endemic to the design of the particular vendor's flavor of meshing. It might support traffic to an upstream provider or, depending on network conditions necessitating failover, it could also support traffic between user clusters, as well. My earlier point, however, had to do with linear backhaul routes that take traffic from a local cluster of users, say in a hamlet or a small village, where no inexpensive bandwidth alternatives exist for access to the Internet's core. In the latter case, backhaul could consist of taking traffic all the way back to a bandwidth center, be it in the next town or five towns over. Here WiMAX is seen as the more robust alternative, for whatever reasons, which I posited as my original answer to your question of, "why wimax and not wifi?"