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Valley Wireless gives more speed to your City. We streamline Public Works, allowing permits to be written in the field, without returning to the office. Meter Reading? Police, Fire and Ambulance? Mobile Wireless and Surveillance are our specialties. We have built in multiple cities and continue to dominate the competition by delivering more services, faster speeds at lower costs. Our mobile wireless solutions are the best that exist today. WiMax continues to be technology of choice, and we use it along with other technologies. LTE ?
WiMAX is a wireless digital communications system, also known as IEEE 802.16, that is intended for wireless "metropolitan area networks". WiMAX can provide broadband wireless access (BWA) up to 30 miles (50 km) for fixed stations, and 3 - 10 miles (5 - 15 km) for mobile stations. In contrast, the WiFi/802.11 wireless local area network standard is limited in most cases to only 100 - 300 feet (30 - 100m).
With WiMAX, WiFi-like data rates are easily supported, but the issue of
interference is lessened. WiMAX operates on both licensed and
non-licensed frequencies, providing a regulated environment and viable
economic model for wireless carriers. Surveillance becomes simple when correctly deployed. Bobby Vassallo experts have been deploying these networks for years.
WiMAX can be used for wireless networking in much the same way as the more common WiFi protocol. WiMAX is a second-generation protocol that allows for more efficient bandwidth use, interference avoidance, and is intended to allow higher data rates over longer distances.
The Dark Horse is Already Out of the 
Shadows
While mobile WiMAX may be the more popular, sexy sibling of the WiMAX family, fixed WiMAX actually has a larger share of the market today. According to Gartner, the total fixed WiMAX deployments were more than double that of mobile WiMAX deployments in 2008 - and their projections are similar throughout 2011. Though mobile WiMAX continues to gain steam with Clearwire's U.S. rollouts (and now their planned Spanish deployment next year), fixed WiMAX continues to be a larger market by a factor of nearly 2x. Bobby Vassallo says, "If you are waiting on 4G to solve your problems, it won't. 4G is 3G with a bigger number in front, pretty much. McAllen, TX - Rio Grande Valley, 2009- Bobby Vassallo
"Clearwire will have no Surveillance abilities, and 4G is marketing hype," say Valley Wireless engineers.
The reason for this is largely due to the significant role that fixed wireless plays in the deployment of broadband to rural areas. In Gartner's reports, it classifies the "fixed" applications of WiMAX as "DSL Reach Extension", "Developing Region Broadband" and "Backhaul for Mesh and Cellular" - illustrating that extending the reach of broadband services via wireless (and therefore eliminating the high cost of fiber) is a primary application for fixed WiMAX.
And that brings us to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), which has earmarked $7.2 billion for the specific purpose of extending broadband to rural areas - what we all refer to as the "Broadband Stimulus". Though technologies like fixed WiMAX and other fixed point-to-multi point (PtMP) wireless technologies were already gaining significant ground and represent nearly double the market opportunity of mobile WiMAX today, the broadband stimulus is expected to provide an even greater spike in the demand for fixed wireless.
Below: Queenstown, New Zealand Bobby Vassallo, 2010
Valley Tower view from Coronet Peak, Queenstown, New Zealand, 2010
One of the major reasons for this is because of the significant cost benefits of wireless over wired technologies. Craig Mathias, principal analyst at the Farpoint Group, recently explored this in a report titled "Wireline vs. Wireless: Exploring Total Cost of Ownership in Outdoor Applications."
"CapEx [of wired deployments] can obviously be so enormous as to be completely cost-prohibitive - running broadband cables outdoors, especially if they are to be buried underground, is ferociously expensive. While the wire itself is not expensive, the planning, legal work, and physical installation are. For this reason, wired broadband service is usually desirable only when appropriate cable already exists, or when a carrier or utility is planning to install broadly-deployed service. Moreover, changes and additions to the installation can similarly be very expensive indeed. Break even and payback analysis requires a long time frame often stretching into decades."
To illustrate the cost benefits of wireless, the report goes on to highlight two deployments that recognized huge cost savings by utilizing wireless instead of wired technology. The second deployment that he highlights is a classic example of fixed wireless' utility for rural broadband. The deployment took place in one of England's most rural communities, Alston Moor, where the 2,500 residents had not had any access to broadband services until 2002. They deployed an unlicensed fixed WiMAX network, which now provides high-speed broadband to the entire town's population.
Rio Grande Valley, South Texas 2009- Bobby Vassallo
The report then compares the cost of what it would take to extend broadband to the remote town via wired technologies, and concluded that fixed wireless saved them over $700,000 in up front capital expenses alone! That doesn't even take into consideration the amount that would be saved by avoiding monthly leased line costs, too. City Wireless Consulting partner, Bobby Vassallo, preaches just this kind of design. "In most cases, the cities we visit have no idea how much they spend on monthly network costs. They have been paying those for decades and didn't know there was an option. Worse, most city tech departments are not experienced enough with the new equipment because they are too busy patching the old to keep it working. It takes experts to show the city what it can save and how, says Vassallo.
Valley Wireless and City Wireless Consulting continue to actively pursue new wireless markets. Valley staff continue to seek local partners in foreign markets, as well as the US and Mexico.
Where Broadband Extension and Fiscal Responsibility Meet
So, what does all this cost savings talk have to do with the expansion of the fixed wireless/WiMAX market moving forward? Down economy aside, when issuing RFPs, most organizations are going to highly favor any technology that can offer the desired level of service at the lowest cost. With all the advances in the performance of WiMAX and PtMP technologies over the years, fixed wireless systems have proven time and again that they can deliver true, carrier-grade high-speed broadband to hard-to-reach areas at a fraction of the cost of wired technologies, which has greatly aided the sales of fixed wireless systems throughout the world.
And now with $7.2 billion in stimulus money to be 
distributed for the expansion of rural broadband throughout the U.S., that cost savings of fixed wireless over wired becomes even more of a competitive differentiator. Due to the scrutiny that these broadband stimulus applications are put under to ensure that the billions of dollars in government funding is spent wisely, fixed wireless' balance of high-performance broadband and fiscal responsibility positions it well to be a significant winner in the broadband stimulus deployments.
So, while a majority of the press and market enthusiasm tends to put mobile WiMAX in the spotlight, we should remember to peak behind the curtain from time to time and keep tabs on the continuing success and growth of the fixed wireless market. And especially as the U.S., U.K., China and other areas of the world continue to emphasize the importance of rolling out broadband to rural areas - which could mean billions of dollars for whichever technology can most cost-effectively extend broadband to the under-served - fixed wireless may soon toss that curtain aside and steal the spotlight all on its own. Fixed Wireless Continues to Thrive in the Background.
While Clearwire's recent deployments have dominated the WiMAX headlines and reignited the public's enthusiasm for mobile WiMAX, fixed wireless continues to thrive in the background, especially with the broadband stimulus' focus on rural broadband. Bobby Vassallo and staff at Valley Wireless have bid on projects and are negotiating several builds from winners of bids needing technical assistance.
When you think of WiMAX, what's the first thing that comes to your mind? Is it the ability to connect with your laptop or a WiMAX-enabled smartphone to a mobile network at much higher speeds than today's 3G or 4G networks? Or do you think of WiMAX's role as a fixed wireless technology, which is key to cost-effectively extending broadband service to underserved rural areas as part of the U.S. broadband stimulus? "It should be, it must be, says Vassallo. If we look at the amount of attention that is paid to the two different deployment types - mobile and fixed - in the media, it would indicate that people are far more excited about mobile WiMAX than they are about fixed wireless"
Now that Clearwire has launched WiMAX service in 14 markets and people have actually been able to experience the service, enthusiasm for WiMAX has spiked yet again after waning in previous years. I've written about the hype cycle for WiMAX before, and while I do think that the market's latest wave of enthusiasm for WiMAX is justified (since it is based on positive experience with deployed networks, instead of just the promise of these networks), there is a distinction that needs to be made when it comes to the future of WiMAX. That distinction is the difference in opportunities for mobile WiMAX as compared to fixed WiMAX and other point-to-multi point wireless technologies.
Don't get me wrong - I think that both mobile WiMAX (IEEE 802.16e) and fixed WiMAX (802.16d) both have a large addressable market and ample market opportunities. This is not an article about which is more important. However, considering the fact that a vast majority of the attention given to WiMAX is given to the mobile variants of WiMAX, it's worth taking a look at the market opportunity for fixed wireless systems as well. Fixed, Mobile, Surveillance; these are what Valley Wireless does best. Bobby Vassallo experts are here to serve you!
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