Tim, really good article. I have talked with AirSpan and others within the industry about the relay strategy, One of the major issues is relocating all of the macro sites to lower rent leases in addition to finding sites for the relay nodes. I had assumed they would use the AirSpan small cells and not Nokia's but makes sense if you want more capacity to use the Nokia unit.
Given Sprint has a messed up backhaul network strategy and microwave//mmwave radios would be expensive initially to deploy, using one 20MHz channel for backhaul until the requirement goes up to expand the coverage footprint of a macro site makes sense.
The initial talk about about 40k of these sites with Chicago being a major focus. Have you seen any updates on more small cell sites from any of the members vs where they are for the macro sites???
Also curious on the pictures you have of the relay node. They are indoors so in your house or someplace??? Have you actually deployed them??
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Tim, really good article. I have talked with AirSpan and others within the industry about the relay strategy, One of the major issues is relocating all of the macro sites to lower rent leases in addition to finding sites for the relay nodes. I had assumed they would use the AirSpan small cells and not Nokia's but makes sense if you want more capacity to use the Nokia unit.
Given Sprint has a messed up backhaul network strategy and microwave//mmwave radios would be expensive initially to deploy, using one 20MHz channel for backhaul until the requirement goes up to expand the coverage footprint of a macro site makes sense.
The initial talk about about 40k of these sites with Chicago being a major focus. Have you seen any updates on more small cell sites from any of the members vs where they are for the macro sites???
Also curious on the pictures you have of the relay node. They are indoors so in your house or someplace??? Have you actually deployed them??
Best regards
Earl