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EBS / WiMAX 101 Bill Johnson. Overview. Describe EBS environment Comment on a large number of licenses held by schools across the region. Explain how a college got an IT Wireless license without the knowledge of the CIO
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Overview • Describe EBS environment • Comment on a large number of licenses held by schools across the region. • Explain how a college got an IT Wireless license without the knowledge of the CIO • Provide the otherwise uninformed licensee about background, value and offer some guidance on leases.
Glossary • ITFS -old nomenclature implied “Instruction” “Televised” • TV station – TV set technology • Education ITFS • Entertainment MMDS • EBS -new nomenclature implies Education and Broadband but omits Televised and Fixed. Mobile “I.T.” services are implied. • Access Point – Mobile technology • Excess Capacity Lease to MMDS operators. This could allow MMDS operators up to 33 channels of video allowing them to compete with “wired” CATV systems. • GSA; “Geographic Service Area” 35 miles in radius minus half the overlaps (split the football). • MHzPOP – Standard Unit to determine value of license
1963 ITFS - TV Broadcast Bureau (47 CFR Part 74) Shared spectrum with MMDS 6MHz channels with 6MHz Guard Bands
2008 WiMAX“Worldwide Interoperable Microwave” Wireless Bureau (47CFR Part 27). (can do 30 yr lease. Must prove services) Re Banded 15.5MHz blocks. Better for Digital Services WiMAX Forum - 2.5-2.7 GHz spectrum (802.16e) Sprint/Nextel 2.5-2.7GHz will be G4! Similar spectrum in Europe, Manufactures; Samsung Intel Motorola Nortel NextNet hundreds more
Value of a License • Megahertz (roughly 2.5 Mb/sec) • GSA (Geographic Service Area) • 35 mile radius minus half of each overlap • Pop • You’ll need help getting this • Megahertz-POP; MHz X POP = “MHzPOP”. • 22.5 MHz X 100,000 Pop = 2.25 Million MHzPOP • $/MHz-Pop. Deals range from $.03 to $2.00
Non-Leased Campus Deployment Users device can be served by Sprint OR Campus system Virtual Campus Calling System Possible Campus Deployment Mobile Switching Office T-1 WiMAX In-building system WiMAX Campus system Seamless roaming off-campus
Bill Johnson • bjohnson@onenet.net • 405-919-1718 • http://www.onenet.net/~bjohnson/whitepapers/EBS_Whitepaper_Draft_2008.doc