Ripwave Not To be deployed beyond Dublin by IBB .

spongebob

IBB have bought Alvarion 3.5Ghz Kit instead and will leave the Dubs gnashing away at the Ripwave gear. Pity ....but then again it doesn't work so the Dubs r welcome to it until it does

Alvarion will provide Irish Broadband with its BreezeACCESS VL system for operation in the unlicensed 5.7 GHz band, as well as its BreezeMAX 3500 for operation the licensed 3.5 GHz band.

Irish Broadband, which provides high-speed access services to business and residential customers, plans to use the BreezeMAX system to extend its network coverage to the cities of Dundalk, Drogheda, Galway, Limerick and Waterford.

More Here .They better get their fingers out or they will lose their licences in those towns at the end of february ! No press release on this from IBB, wot a surprise.

M

SkepticOne

Muck wrote:

They better get their fingers out or they will lose their licences in those towns at the end of february ! No press release on this from IBB, wot a surprise.

It will be interesting also to see what Digiweb and Leap do with Wimax and their 3.5 gig licences. Maybe at long last we will start seeing some competition to the monopolist.

ballooba

Muck wrote:

No press release on this from IBB, wot a surprise.

M

What ARE you on? http://www.irishbroadband.ie/htmdocs/media_centre/mc_pr_current20.htm

:P

spongebob

Whoops.

On Ripwave I meant . Spot the differences though

"Dublin, Cork, Dundalk, Drogheda, Galway, Limerick, and Waterford" is the IBB list. Where did they get the spectrum in Dublin ?

M

ballooba

Doesn't Ripwave operate in 3.5Ghz band?

I hope this BreezeMax craic works better than Ripwave.

Don't IBB already use the BreezeAccess VLan equipment?

Moriarty

IBB have a raft of 3.5ghz spectrum, aswell as two licences for 10.5ghz in dublin..

(3.5ghz)


(10.5ghz)

ballooba

Tremendous, That covers the whole North East and Dublin.

Hopefully ComReg kicks their holes into go-live by February.

bminish

ballooba wrote:

Tremendous, That covers the whole North East and Dublin.

Not really, the red circles show the 35 KM exclusion zones, the black circles show the 15 Km coverage area, the area in which they are allowed sell service, they don't have to have 100% coverage of the service area.

What I don't fully understand however is how that the 15Km circles seem to vary in size

.Brendan

ballooba

That's strange because the technology (BreezeMax) offers range of 35km AFAIK.

spongebob

IBB simply does not have enough spectrum in Dublin to deploy BOTH Breeze Max and Ripwave, it would have to be one or the other. If they are going to deploy the Alvarion BreezeMax in the provincial cities they won't have lots of spectrum there either and will probably not deploy Ripwave .

M

Moriarty

They'll probably continue to use 5.8ghz aswell muck..

eth0_

How does BreezeMax work? Does it require an aeriel on the roof or a box in the window like ripwave?

ballooba

Has the Alvarion BreezeMax technology ever been deployed before?

They announced several deployments worldwide this week from what I see but I can't find a working system.

Moriarty

eth0_ wrote:

How does BreezeMax work? Does it require an aeriel on the roof or a box in the window like ripwave?

It'll require an antenna on the chimney.

bminish

ballooba wrote:

That's strange because the technology (BreezeMax) offers range of 35km AFAIK.

it's not a technology limit, it's a limit defined by the terms of the licence, by conreg

.Brendan

RintPete

This is a response to an enquirey last month to IBB coming to galway.



Thank you for your interest in internet connections from Irish Broadband. Please see the attached files for details of our products & services.

While we aren't currently live in Galway, Irish Broadband are delighted to have been awarded seven prime broadband licences which will make Broadband access possible in your area - this will be in a few months' time. We are currently commissioning a highsite in your area. You would need to be 5-6kms away from our mast at Galway City to be covered.
If you would like us to keep your details on file so that we can let you know when we go live, just let us know.

Thank you for your interest in Irish Broadband, we look forward to providing you with our service!

Kind Regards,

Anony Mous

Residential Broadband Sales

dlofnep

RintPete wrote:

This is a response to an enquirey last month to IBB coming to galway.



Thank you for your interest in internet connections from Irish Broadband. Please see the attached files for details of our products & services.

While we aren't currently live in Galway, Irish Broadband are delighted to have been awarded seven prime broadband licences which will make Broadband access possible in your area - this will be in a few months' time. We are currently commissioning a highsite in your area. You would need to be 5-6kms away from our mast at Galway City to be covered.
If you would like us to keep your details on file so that we can let you know when we go live, just let us know.

Thank you for your interest in Irish Broadband, we look forward to providing you with our service!

Kind Regards,

Anony Mous

Residential Broadband Sales

Yeah, I think that's pretty much a generic e-mail. I got the same but "galway" was replaced with "waterford".