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Is it? So Netflix is going to install a massive rack of storage in every cell tower, with expensive power and cooling and risk of vandalism and theft? Even if y
by martinald 6y ago
Is it? So Netflix is going to install a massive rack of storage in every cell tower, with expensive power and cooling and risk of vandalism and theft? Even if you cached the enterity of netflix, it's still only 10% of Internet traffic.
Backhaul is becoming less and less of a problem as more and more sites get fibre backhaul. Point to point links can easily do 10gig/sec now even if they don't have fibre (to another tower with fibre). That is almost certainly as much if not more than the total capacity of most cell towers even with a stupendous amount of spectrum allocated.
- foobiekr 6y agoThe userplane doesn't run on the cell tower. The mobile network backhaul is multiple stages, and the tower is just the first hop. The problem with backhaul isn't the availability of fiber, it's the _concentration of bandwidth_.