EVDO Rev. B promises more than 9Mbps down
March 27th, 2007
Another Ars Technica post about the upcoming version of EVDO that promises 9Mb/s downstream speed, more than 10x faster than current 800Kb/s.
FTTH, 9Mb/s EVDO, DOCSIS 3.0 with 100Mb/s–the next generation is looking good. Still, we sometimes overlook transport to the “node,” which is a big obstacles in and of itself. Many cell towers (mainly rural) still run off of T1s , and, in the wired world, 100Mb/s+ per subscriber starts to put strain on even fiber backhauls, which usually range from 1-10Gb/s but usually accommodates residential best effort and business class services simultaneously.
Still, a lot of fast, competing technologies is always a good thing. Let’s just get some of it my direction…