<div dir="ltr">Hi Rob,<div><br></div><div>Looking at the Australian example, we can analyse the industry using the ACMA database. There are about 42,733 mobile sites (devices with an ACMA licence for Spectrum or PTS) for Optus, Telstra and Vodafone. The same database shows only 11,584 point to point microwave licences for the same three carriers, including sites that aren't for mobile. So it's fairly safe to assume that one quarter of mobile sites are already connected with a wired service for backhaul that is almost certainly fibre. </div><div><br></div><div>Alternatively, if you're looking to build a new mobile network operator from scratch - then yes the backhaul capex is significant but I'm sure there are other carriers who will cut you a deal.</div><div><br></div><div>John</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 at 10:18, Robert Haylock <<a href="mailto:robert.haylock@gmail.com">robert.haylock@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">It's a nice idea, and I'm sure more efficient in Opex and over a long period of time with the benefits of upgrades like you say, but the Capex of deploying all that fibre would be huge, especially as cells get more abundant. That's why everyone really likes packets :)<div><br></div><div>Rob</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 at 16:16, John Edwards <<a href="mailto:jaedwards@gmail.com" target="_blank">jaedwards@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dark fibre to cell sites opens up more possibilities than just bandwidth.<div><br></div><div>Potentially the raw analogue waves from antennas can be re-modulated onto DWDM wavelengths and then digitally [de]modulated in a datacenter.</div><div><br></div><div>This makes the whole process more efficient, reducing power and weight requirements of components on-site, which means that existing towers can carry more stuff. It also means that DSP resources that might be intermittently used by a stadium or university campus can be re-allocated somewhere else when they're not in use (there are a finite number of customers on the network, after all). If the system needs a hardware update to a new protocol, it only needs to happen at the datacentre, not by ripping and replacing DSP's at the top of a 30M tower.</div><div><br></div><div>Once the industry is comfortable with that step, it can then start using adjacent cell sites like MIMO antennas. No more need to roam to nearby towers because you're already associated with them, no "hidden node" problem, and spatial stream capabilities that allow for massive spectrum re-use.</div><div><br></div><div>For added value, they might even modulate the same 20Mhz analogue signal multiple times in the same wavelength. By slightly varying the phase of the duplicated signals into an array of antennas, it might be possible to get an electrical tilt effect in the antennas without any additional active components on-site.</div><div><br></div><div>John</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 at 11:33, Dave Taht <<a href="mailto:dave.taht@gmail.com" target="_blank">dave.taht@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">It is certainly my hope more will also deploy bufferbloat fighting<br>
solutions at various points.<br>
Typical cell bufferbloat is in the 1.6 second range, and would be<br>
worse if various protocols didn't just time out....<br>
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