Where do you rate Ubiquity Nanostations or the Bullet?
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From: Travis Johnson
To: WISPA General List
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 9:32 PM
Subject: [WISPA] WiMax delays?
I don't think this is entirely true. For us, it becomes a "value" decision.
If there was an AP that would deliver 100Mbps and could support 1000
subscribers, I would be willing to pay $10,000+ for it today. There is a real
"gap" in the products that are available on the market:
At the bottom = Linksys
Next = Mikrotik
Next = Trango, Canopy, etc
<gap>
Top = licensed Alvarion, Redline, etc.
This is the market that is not being served. There are plenty of backhaul
solutions, router solutions, etc. but the very last mile AP/CPE for the "higher
end" is what is missing. I'm not interested in paying $50,000 per base station
(Alvarion WiMax), but I don't want to pay $10,000 for a solution that uses an
entire band (Canopy 5700 for example) and only delivers 84Mbps of total
capacity (when even lower end products can deliver 2x or 3x that in the same
spectrum).
So, again, why hasn't there been an evolution of products the last 2-3 years?
Did everyone stop normal R&D to focus on WiMax?
Travis
Microserv
Butch Evans wrote:
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Mike Hammett wrote:
Where has the innovation in the last few years gone?</rant>
How many in this industry bitch and moan over the cost of gear? How
many would purchase an AP at under $200 and STILL think that's too
high? How many in this industry are willing to purchase something
JUST BECAUSE IT IS CHEAPER? Look at how many people in this
industry are using DSL as a transport to the Internet.
Answer THOSE questions and you'll begin the see the answer to YOUR
question. The problem isn't just "us". The "big boys" have been
busy trying to drive pricing levels down in an attempt to "buy the
market". And too many of "us" have decided that we have to compete
on price alone, so we found ways to cut cost by buying cheaper gear
(there are 2 WISPs within a 30 minute drive of my house that are
selling service using Linksys gear for APs). There is at least 3
WISPs whose service would cover my house that have DSL for their
internet connection. I'm not condemming the practice as much as I
am attempting to illustrate WHY the innovation is leaving the
industry. It is NOT gone. It just doesn't exist in the price range
that MOST people are willing to pay (WISPs, that is).
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