Re: 5G roadblock: labor

[Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu>]

On 2/Jan/20 18:41, joel jaeggli wrote:

> The bottom of a tower is a fantastically expensive piece of real estate
> to collocate something in. If you're financing the development of such
> realestate it may sound great, but if you're leasing, it is sort of
> outlandish, especially if you want .5KW per ru along with it.
>
> If you set your latency budget artificially at 1ms, at .7 C photons
> travel around 210km. If you draw a circle around the base of the tower
> at 75KM it's quite feasible to achieve that assuming for the sake of
> argument that it's necessary.

Agreed. Especially because when power outages start to hit, base
stations are notoriously difficult to keep alive.

Even if you're conservative and limit your metro area to 100km, you can
maintain 1ms access within the backbone to/from your content. The weak
link will be the radio network down to your customers.

Mark.

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