Fiber To The Home & Fixed Wireless/Mobile Access

There are several companies and municipalities attempting wireless broadband and fiber-to-the-user projects on varying scales. By capitalizing on nine years (since April 2000) of planning (business/finance/strategy) and scanning (markets/suppliers/technologies), iUHBA plans to surge ahead of the competition by competing on a massive scale, with the right partners, right technologies, and by working according to its unique and proprietary FiberBroadband Strategy.

iUHBA’s FiberBroadband Strategy not only covers technological and architectural issues, it covers all aspects of the FTTH/O and BWA business plan including marketing, sales, service, partnering and business and financial models.

The technological and engineering part of the FiberBroadband Strategy consists of a revolutionary, strategic networking architecture, a connectivity design, and a development strategy.

The technical design of FTTH/O and BWA infrastructures must be accompanied by a solid business model, service concepts and even marketing strategies. Anything less would prove too costly to emulate iUHBA’s example. The complexity of the FiberBroadband Strategy is in itself a very powerful competitive advantage.

iUHBA is competing on three different levels:

1. Technologies involved
2. Operational scale and business structure
3. True-Broadband services

Below, we explain iUHBA’s technological differentiators.

Optical Fiber

An extensive national grid of optical fiber cables spans the entire United States, connecting busy streets and large building. But residential neighborhoods have largely been ignored, and residential buildings/building locks have not been connected to the optical fiber network. Most home-level services are delivered via copper wires or coax (coaxial) cables, imposing a limitation on bandwidth. This particular limitation is the most severe and troubling bottleneck for existing transmission technologies that include DOCSIS/CATV, xDSL/Telco, and DTH/Satellite and LMDS/Terrestrial systems.

Fiber optics offer ten to one hundred times greater transmission speeds than these technologies, thus eliminating the bottleneck limitations.

Thanks to Verizon’s major push in the market, there are already several million homes in the USA passed with fiber-optics. However, less than 3 million homes are actually connected, the majority of which (the existing FTTH connections) are not future-proof in terms of technology and capacity. The problem is that most FTTH or FTTPremises builders, including mighty Verizon, made several decisions that will cost them dearly in the near future. Meanwhile, they will insist on having deployed a “future-proof” FTTH or FTTPremises infrastructure. However, as with DSL, FTTx comes in several flavors and most FTTH or FTTPremises builders and their advisors are not fully aware of that fact.

When people don’t even know about the various flavors, they certainly cannot describe the tastes. Today, vendors and advisors can help builders rollout FTTH or FTTPremises infrastructures, but invariably most existing FTTx systems are built on quicksand due to not understanding the long-term business model and a lack of foresight. For example, Connexion Technologies  had the visionary idea to build out FTTH systems, but to do so they chose Passive Optical Network technology, which has inherent technical limitations.

It does not matter what the incumbents do and how much further they consolidate the Telco industry -or the Cable industry for that matter-, their infrastructures cannot be squeezed out endlessly. The temporary solutions on their legacy systems are simply at the end of their life. The incumbents do not possess many assets that will remain valuable over the next ten years, except for aspects of their wireless portfolio with which our Fixed Wireless/Mobile Access (FWMA) networks will compete head-to-head directly or in partnership with them. Of course the incumbents are resorting to a consolidation strategy now, they have no choice, it is do or die.

Wireless

Industry insiders know that the cellular networks we are familiar with, as well as next-generation (for example UMTS/WCDMA) circuit-switched technologies, are not capable to do what next-generation packet-switched technologies such as Wi-Fi and WiMAX can achieve. The cellular industry has its hopes pinned on squeeze-out technology promises such as Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard (expected in 2010/11).

Companies, organizations, and local governments are enthusiastic about what Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) and Fixed and Mobile WiMAX technologies can do for the public. Wireless internet holds big promises for all of us at home, on the move or at the office. Audio, video, and data applications are converging to the point where mobile/wireless users are demanding more reliable and ubiquitous availability of wireless services, for business as well as personal use.

Nevertheless, the wireless services that are available today are far from being perfect, perfectly secure or True-Broadband. There is no real offering in the market that could bring 4G services to the people. This is where iUHBA enters the playing field.

To overcome the last-mile and last-hundred-feet bottleneck in its FWMA and FTTH/O projects, iUHBA will build out more than 15,000 miles of new fiber optic cables in the USA. iUHBA will create multi-gigabits-per-second local backbones (last mile and last hundred feet) to which we will connect our Wireless Access networks and “tranceive”, aggregate and distribute this immense capacity among the company’s subscribers at street-level and inside buildings. iUHBA’s multi-Gbps local backbones provide an unfair advantage over all other Service Providers. Others simply don’t have similar high-capacity local/wide area networks and local backbones, and therefore cannot offer the same capacity, services, or availability.

iUHBA’s Architecture

iUHBA’s services are available to residential and business users as well as mobile users in all markets where we roll out our infrastructures.

Our residential/office subscribers (wired by FTTH/O) can access the Internet everywhere in the metro area and in any other markets served by the company (using their wUHBA Wireless subscription), without paying an additional fee.

iUHBA services are available everywhere in the city on street-level as well as inside residential and office buildings.

Nomadic (on the go) users can compute wirelessly everywhere at staggering speeds up to 10 and 100 megabits per second, and make calls up to 500 minutes for a low, flat, monthly fee.

iUHBA’s coverage area differs from the “hotspots” model. With our city-wide coverage we provide users the ubiquitous blanket of wireless connectivity that is required for seamless, uninterrupted nomadic (on the move) data and video, and mobile voice services, whether it be for laptop, mobile phone or PDA/Smartphone users.

iUHBA’s FWMA networks are based on proven and/or patented Wireless technologies. The powerful technologies used, combined with the architectural and deployment methods that are proprietary to iUHBA set the future-proof bar extremely high. We have an immense competitive advantage over other (City-wide) Wireless Internet Service Providers or Hotspot Providers.

For further information, please visit our website: http://iuhba.com