Lots of my clients (Wireless ISPs) have looked into deploying it, however the costs are well over 20 times the cost of a unlicensed system per access point. I know it will be deployed as we work with some of the backend routing etc. and installation with some of clearwires subs, but most of my clients have moved on to other cheaper, more proven technologies. Just what is going on in the WISP industry for the most part. 802.11n so far on point-2-point links, are working quite well, cheap hardware as well as ease of use is playing factors in this. We are seeing 10+ mile N links running 60-70 meg TCP and over 200 UDP using only 2x2 MIMO. ----------------------------------------------------------- Dennis Burgess, Mikrotik Certified Trainer Link Technologies, Inc -- Mikrotik & WISP Support Services Office: 314-735-0270 Website: http://www.linktechs.net LIVE On-Line Mikrotik Training - Author of "Learn RouterOS" -----Original Message----- From: Rubens Kuhl [mailto:rubensk@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 2:48 PM To: Seth Mattinen Cc: nanOG list Subject: Re: Future of WiMax The future of WiMAX seems a lot less promising now that FD-LTE is the clear winner for wide-scale mobile deployment, and TD-LTE, 802.11n and proprietary technologies will compete for non-paired spectrum and/or niche markets. But one can build a network with WiMAX and make money out of it; global market forces have established the big picture, not what would happen on a specific scenario. Rubens On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us> wrote:
A while back I remember reading a comment here that "WiMax is not a future proof technology" and that several manufacturers have dropped it or something to that effect. I think it was in the starting a WiMax
ISP thread. This has stuck in my head, and I was curious if there was any truth to this.
WiMax sounds promising, but I certainly don't hear a lot about it other than Sprint/Clear. Is it just that everyone that's doing wireless is sticking with relatively inexpensive 802.11 a/b/g/n products, or is WiMax really a dead end?
~Seth