While Tinker probably has no clue about all of this, his idea is spot on.
I can attest to the former part of that sentence 
Thaks Qazulight.
Tinker
Deployment at COs is certainly way more feasible than deployment at the antenna, especially for 5G.
Does a given car manufacturer send all communication over one cell carrier … or is it something like satellite, not cell? Having multiple vendors on both sides would certainly complicate the picture. And, of course, if it is satellite, then there is no CO.
Bottom line, though, is the fact that an automated vehicle will have to be able to operate without a cell signal or it would be in trouble. And, if that is true, what is it that the CO located data centers are going to provide.
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Does a given car manufacturer send all communication over one cell carrier … or is it something like satellite, not cell? Having multiple vendors on both sides would certainly complicate the picture. And, of course, if it is satellite, then there is no CO.
Satellite, as wee know it, is a non starter. The round trip time is simply too high. This isn’t to say a low altitude constellation would not work, but the density of birds and compactness and power required for those birds is not deployed or even more than a twinkle in someones eye.
I am guessing, that there will be multipoint to multipoint aspect to 5g so that the IOT can speak quickly within itself even if it is not allowed to be verbous.
Just as I can make it from one end of the mid west to the other without Google maps, I am pretty sure that after some years of training, even when not connected to the hive mind, an autonomous car will be able to get around.
Cheers
Qazulight
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With the current CLEC (Competitive Local Exchange Carrier) laws a cloud company like AWS (Amazon Web Service) could build one rack server centers in the ILEC (Incumbant Local Exchange Carrier) office and grab the 5g signals there. It would be a little further than the cell site but closer than most 4g MTSO’s (Mobile Telephone Switching Office).
I am curious how this is all going to work out. Verizon is building out their own last mile network for all of their cell towers across the country, completely bypassing the Ilec and Clec networks. I wonder if they are hoping to grab the majority of the IOT and self driving car network.
Andy
I am curious how this is all going to work out. Verizon is building out their own last mile network for all of their cell towers across the country, completely bypassing the Ilec and Clec networks. I wonder if they are hoping to grab the majority of the IOT and self driving car network.
Andy,
I don’t know. AT&T is talking about doing the same thing. This seems uneconomical. However, Betamax was the better technology.
Cheers
Qazulight