nospam wrote:


tl;dr wireless is *very* competitive with wired, and it's still in its
early stages.

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/...c-single-fiber

"have smashed the world speed record for a fiber network,
pushing 255 terabits per second down a single strand of glass fiber."

I suspect it will be hard for wireless to keep up with that.

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And this network, plans to go optical from node to node (between satellites),
with the "wireless" portion going to rooftop mounted
pizza boxes with phased array beamforming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starli..._constellation)

That's a complementary tech for 5G, that could enable the easy
setup of "microsites" for the more whizzy and unbelievable parts
of 5G. The believable parts of 5G will be more pedestrian.
About as believable as a declaration of "5Ge" by AT&T.

Paul