IMHO the choice probably comes down to possible future capabilities that are impossible to evaluate unless you have a time machine.
Federated and Commscope are fine companies with a history in the microwave and spectrum businesses, and Google is a fine company that should know how to build a robust cloud based service. I'm not entirely sure why Google wanted to be in the SAS business, but you could ask that about every venture they have gotten into. Some of us may have some not entirely objective feelings about Google, like entrusting your data to them, or their tendency to shut down some of their ventures, or on the positive side their immense resources and understanding of reliable cloud services. You either love or hate the big tech companies. We flipped a coin and chose Federated, maybe because they had the longest time working with Cambium through the beta process. One of the outages was apparently because they didn't adequately size server resources for a certain scenario where a whole bunch of CBSDs needed to get back online at once, I may not be remembering that exactly right, but your could argue Google would not have made mistake. On the other hand, if they are using something like AWS, it's pretty easy to ramp up your server resources these days. The scary thing perhaps is that it's not just a push of the button to move from one SAS to another (maybe that will change). So if one of the SAS vendors turns out to be significantly inferior, or drops out, it could be a bunch of work to move all your CBSDs over. My impression that CBRS is going to be a wild ride, no matter what radio or SAS vendor you choose. It's pretty complicated. I'd like to think the complexity will dissuade the mobile carriers from using it even (if they buy all the PALs) except where they run out of other mid band spectrum, but I'm probably dreaming. It's like hoping Cookie Monster won't eat all the cookies. -----Original Message----- From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2020 2:11 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Google vs Federated They've both had a couple of outages already.....hopefully that gets better in the long term. What benefits are there of picking one over the other? And I guess I should wonder if anyone's investigated Commscope yet. On 8/20/2020 2:49 PM, Adam Moffett wrote: > If I'm doing CBRS through Cambium I can pick Google or Federated. > > Who do we like better right now? > > -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
