I like the general idea, especially if there was a site-wide controller module that can do the sort of frequency allocation that network engineers do in dense AP deployments today: adjacent APs run on different frequency bands so that they reduce the likelihood of stepping on each others transmissions.
One of the biggest knowledge gaps that I see people have around wireless is that it IS a shared medium. It both is, and isn’t a bus. Shared like a bus, but with the hidden transmissions that remove the csma abilities that get with a bus.
But the main issue will be deployment. This would be great for commercial buildings that get retrofitted every decade or so with new gear.
This will be near-impossible in the US except for new construction or big remodels of existing structures. The cost of opening the walls to run the fiber will make the cost of the hardware itself insignificant.
OTOH, because the STAs aren’t specialized, the existing ones “just work”, and so you don’t have the usual bootstrap issue that plagues tech like zigbee and Zwave, where there isn’t enough infra to justify the devices, or not enough devices to justify the infra.
-Aaron
the AP needs to blast a CTS so every other possible conversation has to halt.
The wireless network is not a bus. This still ignores the hidden transmitter problem because there is a similar network in the next room.
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