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What they should have done is made arrangements to have COWs on site from the major providers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_cell_sites#Cell_on_wheels h
by yoshamano 9y ago
What they should have done is made arrangements to have COWs on site from the major providers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_cell_sites#Cell_on_wheels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_cell_sites#Cell_on_whee...
- Matt3o12_ 9y agoHow do networks manage to have sufficient backbone for those mobile towers? What good are those towers if thousand people can connect but cannot use any internet because their backbone cable is so slow. I once was at a festival in Germany where they had such measures but lacked backbones (I had full signal strength in a remote array but the internet was unusable slow). Not every town has fiber optic to support such a surge of people.
- Operyl 9y agoYeah, but it’s Chicago. A massive city, not a town.
- mostlyskeptical 9y agoMany of them use point to point microwave (if the provider has a good microwave network in the city). Those are good for a couple of gbps each and can go anywhere in a city that's got line of sight.
- toomuchtodo 9y agoSears Tower (Now known as Willis Tower) is a major microwave termination point in Chicago; great LOS from most of downtown.
- MertsA 9y agoYour situation doesn't tell us anything about whether the congestion was the backhaul or not. IMHO, their backhaul most likely wasn't the issue. You can have 100,000 people all right next to a cell tower and while they won't have any usable service, they'll still see 5 bars.