Every tech requires new HW…lifespan its about 5-7 years. xLTE its not a hw change but a add on
Gino A. Villarini President Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. www.aeronetpr.com @aeronetpr From: Jon Paul Kelley <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 4:42 PM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] New feedback (Patrick Leary) I will beg to differ. The cellcos are constantly changing radios. My dealing are with AT&T and VZW. The old analog bays were swapped for CDMA(Verizon) and TDMA(AT&T) style radios. Completely different radio sets. Then LTE launched. Verizon installed brand new Lucent LTE base stations. Now with xLTE, the radios are changing again. Even within Verizon, they switched manufacturers for the CDMA and PCS gear from Lucent to Nortel. Then back to Lucent for LTE. They are constantly swapping radio systems. I have been involved in network upgrades and radio installations for Verizon and AT&T for years. Not so much anymore. Hard to find good help and I don’t feel like running the roads to install that stuff anymore. Jon Paul Kelley CKS Wireless From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Hohhof Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 1:48 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] New feedback (Patrick Leary) I think it’s done all the time with the stuff the cellcos are deploying. Probably limited only by antennas. No way are they changing out basestations for every protocol or spectrum change like they did in the past. There are even systems where the software defined radio is remote in a centralized datacenter, I think it’s called C-RAN. From:Adam Moffett<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 1:39 PM To:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] New feedback (Patrick Leary) Almost everybody who has an SDR sells you on the notion that it can be upgraded later.ï¿1Ž2 Almost nobody ever actually does anything more than bug fixes, or minor tweaks. I think the only way Telrad might be odd with their SDR is that they actually made different firmware to convert the unit from WiMax to a completely different physical layer. The only other big SDR change I can think of in the WISP marketplace was Moto's transition from software scheduling to hardware scheduling.ï¿1Ž2 Maybe some of you old men remember another incident to refute this statement, but I think I'd say that having the ability to define the radio in software doesn't mean they'll actually do it. SimpleTest Stefan: can they upgrade their WiMAX base stations to LTE? The answer is No. Case closed. Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID On Mar 4, 2015 1:30 PM, Stefan Englhardt mailto:[email protected] wrote: >PW is not SDR based So call their Distributors and tell them to change their announcements. Just google Purwave and SDR and you find some.
