For some network operators, implementing Edge will just mean adding a new transceiver unit to the GPRS base stations - although this does depend on which vendor supplied them, and from which generation of infrastructure they are drawn.
Having already shipped around 27,000 W-CDMA base stations, Nokia said it is the market leader with more than 30 per cent share, though it wouldn’t say how much it has made from the sales. Also eye-catching has been the fashion-conscious 7200...
Wi-Lan, a Canadian maker of broadband wireless products, has supplied base stations, while AirSpan has provided Wireless IP Local Loop Systems. Wi-Lan said its Versatile Intelligent Network Environment technology deployed in India is designed to...
That means less base stations, less fixed lines and possibly, less telcos. The key reason why mesh has not had an impact so far on commercial Wi-Fi services has largely been due to spectrum and site planning.
But behind all of this will be an increasingly dense network of fibre and wires to get the base-band signals to each wireless node. In the old wireless regime we carefully planned and limited the use of space and spectrum, and often completed...
The radiation from mobile devices, base stations, wi-fi and WiMax equipment is non-ionising. There are many protest groups actively campaigning against wireless in any form because of some unknown and unquantified potential risk to health.