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Undersea Cable Cut Circumstances Examined 79

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Wired has a good review of all the recent undersea cable cuts and why it's suspicious, but unlikely to be a conspiracy. So far, there are only four cut cables (the 'fifth' was weeks ago) in two different locations. Of course, a cable is damaged once every three days, on average, and there are 25 ships that do nothing but repair them. While the timing and locations are a little odd, Iran has been online the whole time, even if some of their routers weren't, and none of the conspiracy theories really add up. In a recent interview, TeleGeography Analyst Eric Schoonover said, 'I think that this is more along the lines of coincidence.'"

Comment Re:A whole 50MHz chunk of bandwidth? (Score 1) 98

Or, use a bunch of 3.5 MHz and 7 MHz channels to distribute data to end users, particularly for 802.16-2004 (and the eventual, 802.16e) users. Then use 5.8 GHz (and hopefully 5.4 GHz when the FCC gets around to unleashing that) for backhaul. At 64 QAM, with 3/4 FEC, you can get 9 Mbps aggregate in a sector, and with a decent oversubscription rate, that's 14 non-overlapping channels (at 3.5 MHz). 4 or 6 sector base stations, and you can get pretty good coverage in a small city. Building penetration isn't great for 3.5 GHz, but you could provide true mobile coverage for a downtown environment, or decent coverage to residential users (with outdoor antennas).

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