Our design for G1 combines the ease of mobile macro-cellular radio access network deployment with a simple network architecture common in fixed access. It’s all about keeping it simple. The G1 platform includes compact base nodes (BNs, each a single integrated package that includes antennas, PAs, several teraflops of digital signal processing, managed Ethernet switching, and 10G optical network interfaces) communicating with up to 256 similarly self-contained remote nodes (RNs, our “customer premise equipment”) per BN. RNs are powered over an Ethernet cable run into the structure they serve. Since fixed access-network endpoints don’t need to support mobility and roaming, our enhanced version of the simple TR101 Broadband Forum standard can be used to greatly simplify both RAN and back-end infrastructure (no painful 3GPP core complexity and expense involved here).