[Cu-wireless] HSLS?

[Stephane Alnet]

Hi Todd,

Couple comments. Your analysis is interesting, just wanted to add my 2 
cents.

>  In 2000-2001 I worked in a fairly busy office; they had approx. 30
>  people on 2 floors, with 3 APs and it was not really successful
>  there; perhaps 20% of the time it was just not accessible. And
>  another 30% of the time it was too slow or intermittent.
[...]
>  so that gave me the impression it doesn't fail gracefully when
>  you get a whole bunch of highspeed, developer workstations.

It was the wrong infrastructure for a development environment. Should 
have looked at 100Mb/s wired (at the time), and nowadays probably 
gigabit to the desktop. Not 10Mb/s shared. Whoever recommended wireless 
for such an environment shouldn't be doing recommendations..

In other words: you had the bad experience of trying to move an 
aircraft carrier with a horse and carriage.


>  Municipalities are saying they can get fiber laid at 10 cents on the
>  dollar if they simply wait for the installation of sewers or other 
> work to
>  piggyback.  So, cities could and should, grow fiber resources
[...]
> If Kirkland's city council provided leadership and coordination

In my experience, this kind of leadership is generally the missing 
link. I've seen very knowledgeable people working on this kind of 
project and having all the details (technical and financial) ready for 
public scrutiny, only to be shun down by the politics.

(I'm not pretending I know more than that; but laying fiber in sewers 
is expensive, invisible (underground), and doesn't give a "positive 
picture" (key word: sewer). In other words it doesn't tend to build 
immediate political prestige, and unless you have the chance to work 
with a leadership team that understand the bigger picture, it won't 
happen. Been there, ...)

I think your reasoning is worthwhile and I agree that the economic 
model of a grassroot movement can't compete with any well-designed 
business; but on the other hand, building it yourself has the advantage 
of doing just that: building it.

S.