Crash
Senior Member
From a bit of research, mainly looking at iBurst in Australia, I stumbled on an interesting thing.
"Unlike other solutions on the market iBurst delivers download speeds of up to 1Mbps (upgrading to 2Mbps by 2006, 4Mbps by 2007, 8Mbps by 2008) within metropolitan Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra and the Gold Coast. Secure connections can be maintained at up to 100 km/ph which means that whether you're in a car, train, bus or ferry you can stay connected through Chilli iBurst.
Chilli iBurst mobile broadband connections also have similar building penetration to mobile phones providing a similar level of broadband mobility inside as is achieved outside the office or home. "
http://www.chilli.net.au/wireless-broadband.htm
Interesting! So they reckon the iBurst Tech could allow for connections at 8mbps.
Through my understanding of the technology, you would need to allow for more timeslots to be assigned per user (As it works on a similar principle to GSM) to increase connection speed.
Looking at WBS, they are rolling out many new towers.
It's is quite likely they are going to make the move to a 2mbps connection.
My thinking is, if you were to double the peak bandwidth to a user, you are effectively going to reduce the number of users a tower can handle by half.
That is the reason for the extra towers. Spread the load of the upgrade so to speak.
Hopefully getting 2mbps is as simple as a firmware upgrade.
"Unlike other solutions on the market iBurst delivers download speeds of up to 1Mbps (upgrading to 2Mbps by 2006, 4Mbps by 2007, 8Mbps by 2008) within metropolitan Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra and the Gold Coast. Secure connections can be maintained at up to 100 km/ph which means that whether you're in a car, train, bus or ferry you can stay connected through Chilli iBurst.
Chilli iBurst mobile broadband connections also have similar building penetration to mobile phones providing a similar level of broadband mobility inside as is achieved outside the office or home. "
http://www.chilli.net.au/wireless-broadband.htm
Interesting! So they reckon the iBurst Tech could allow for connections at 8mbps.
Through my understanding of the technology, you would need to allow for more timeslots to be assigned per user (As it works on a similar principle to GSM) to increase connection speed.
Looking at WBS, they are rolling out many new towers.
It's is quite likely they are going to make the move to a 2mbps connection.
My thinking is, if you were to double the peak bandwidth to a user, you are effectively going to reduce the number of users a tower can handle by half.
That is the reason for the extra towers. Spread the load of the upgrade so to speak.
Hopefully getting 2mbps is as simple as a firmware upgrade.
