[BC] The first 'white space' project

[SteveOrdinetz]

At 02:04 PM 10/22/2009, Dana  Puopolo wrote:
>Does it matter? Fact is that they are using this for the 'middle mile'-the
>long link between the ISP and the community. This means that as I suspected
>all along, white space technology can operate on longer links of 10-30 miles
>and serve as the pipe to get the internet to a community. Once there, it can
>be distributed by DSL, wifi, etc.
>
>Wimax is licenser and regulated. This is not. This will be a consumer product
>soon.

Of course it matters.  Have you actually seen this work or are you 
just going by a puff piece from a source with unknown 
credibility?  The problem with broadband in rural areas isn't the 
"middle mile" as you say, but the final one.  Fiber is in place into 
most telco COs already, it's getting it out beyond the town limits 
that is where the bottleneck is.  The towns & nearby surrounding 
areas have DSL and/or cable now, it's the outlying areas that are too 
far out for DSL & too sparsely populated to make cable feasable that 
need the connectivity.
How will VHF-band wireless be affected by tropo & ducting?  I recall 
you were ranting a while back about how high-band VHF was unsuitable 
for DTV, how will low-band VHF do any better for data 
transmission?  BPL works on paper too.

Call me a skeptic, but seeing is believing.  Just because you read a 
rave review of something on  line doesn't make it real.