A day after Comcast and Time Warner Cable announced investments in aWiMax stick venturespearheaded by Sprint and Clearwire , Cablevision say it would build its own wireless broadband internet , using Wi - Fi .
While Cablevision ’s promulgation may vocalise outdated given the failures of some once - hot municipal Wi - Fi networks , its model makes horse sense , said Phil Solis , an analyst with ABI Research .
The meshing should be relatively easy for Cablevision to construct since the ship’s company already has a net of high - speed business line to bind Wi - Fi access points to . In essence , Cablevision is “ letting people , via Wi - Fi , water faucet into their broadband meshwork , ” Solis said .
In addition , Cablevision client may already have devices like iPhones , handheld gaming devices and laptops that have Wi - Fi capabilities . Cablevision say users will receive download rate of around 1.5 M bps ( bit per secondly ) .
Still , Cablevision ’s web will be complete after Clearwire will have built much of its web . Clearwire will use WiMax , a newer , longer - range of mountains wireless engineering , in licensed spectrum to deliver the service .
WiMax and Wi - Fi each have advantages and disadvantage in comparability , but Wi - Fi makes sensory faculty for Cablevision , Solis said . The wheeler dealer has a relatively manageable area to work with , which is crucial because the range of Wi - Fi is short than WiMax , so building a Wi - Fi meshing call for more equipment .
EarthLink ’s municipal Wi - Fi struggles perhaps well reflect the overall trouble the sphere has experienced over the preceding pair of days . The troupe count big on citywide Wi - Fi project , but building the internet turned out to be expensive , and local politics retard progression . While EarthLink still operates Wi - Fi internet in a smattering of cities , last year it called off plans to build additional networks and said it was open to selling its municipal Wi - Fi business unit .
