Information Age Applications

New Applications Demand Increasingly Higher Performance

Mobility of wireless has value but must eventually compete with fiber-to-the-door systems.

• Problems with Mobile Systems
• Routing/Handoffs/
• Reducing Mean (Path Length)^2 of radio links
• user density
• infra$tructure $
• High Speed Requires Line-Of-Sight paths.
• To maximize system economy (system margin dies rapidly beyond LOS)
• To minimize multipath induced errors
• Advantages of Mobile Systems
• Not possible to install fiber everywhere
• Can be quickly deployed