A comparison between hope and reality for river bridging and its relevance for next-gen in and around a North-East Coastal City today.
According to http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2006-01-18b.43102.h and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humber_Bridge the Humber Bridge actually cost around £100M on completion in 1981 and, through the magic of compound interest, this represents a debt of £300M+ today that will still [...]
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Humber Bridge Revisited
FiWi – A Definition
FiWi is a convenient term to express the natural and complimentary nature of the Fibre and Wireless technologies that together create the infrastructure platform for Next Generation Access.
Each technology has its own merits:
Fibre to the Home (FttH) provides future-proofed fixed access
Wireless provides mobility and temporary or nomadic access
Each technology can also provide mutual redundancy, so [...]
Caveat Vendor – Who wants to be a next gen telco?
The telecommunications distribution shift from heavy metal to FiWi delivery means that active equipment vendors have both opportunity and threat – success will come to those vendors who back the next gen infrastructure operators… and failure will result in irrelevance and rapid extinction thereafter
The question is who will these telcos of the 21st century turn [...]