Fixed Wireless As an Alternative Medium For Your Primary Or Backup T1 Or Other Commercial Broadband
January 18th, 2012 Filed under: ATT Broadband — Internet BroadBand Author>Why on earth would you want to use “wireless” Internet for your company or business?
Today, wireless broadband, also referred to as “fixed wireless” (as opposed to mobile), has become a cost effective solution for businesses that need a fully redundant backup Internet connection. OR businesses that are just located too far out in a rural area, to be able to receive anything else. Except for maybe legacy old & slow dial-up, or satellite, which has strict bandwidth caps.
Fixed wireless provides a TRUE backup solution to your existing terrestrial based T1, DS3, Metro Ethernet, etc. high speed line. For example: If you have a T1 and need redundancy/fail-over, your 1st thought might be to order a 2nd T1 from a different carrier. However since T1s and most other wireline telco connections originate out of a local CO (central office), this service provider center is used by all other carriers, as only a handful of carriers own rights to the “last mile”. This last mile is considered the copper wiring that terminates to each individual building in the US. So as one could imagine, this spans thousands of miles and costs millions of dollars in overhead.
3 main telco carriers exist today which control the last mile terrestrial majority: AT&T, Verizon, Qwest/CenturyLink (aka “the big 3″). So if you’re with *** T1 provider, but in an AT&T territory, an AT&T technician will be dispatched to install your line. And it will originate out of an AT&T CO. Even though they might not be the ISP for your T1. So you have *** as your carrier, but want ### as your backup T1 carrier. That line will also originate out of the same CO. As per FCC regulations, multiple carriers are authorized to provide service via POPs (point of presence) inside of as many of the “big 3″ COs as they can. This rule however does not apply to other small last mile carriers, i.e.: Farmer John’s Telco Service, etc.
This is how fixed wireless broadband provides a major advantage. It jumps right past everyone and delivers!
