We also can't live without 900. It is not dead. Small cells are key. It is better for the customer than Exede. Try doing remote desktop over a VPN on Exede. Many companies will not allow their employees to telecommute without a VPN.
PC Blaze Broadband > -----Original Message----- > From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of George Skorup (Cyber Broadcasting) via Af > Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 6:43 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Dear Cambium > > Something is still messed up with the list text/HTML thing. I hit reply to > this message > and TB quoted only what's below. > > Anyway.... I agree. As much as I hate it, we can't live without 900. We are > doing > everything we can to get customers on LOS, but the 900 is there as a last > resort and is > the only viable solution. We put up used (good condition) Rohn 25 for > customers and > charge them 10 or so % over cost + labor just to get them on LOS. It's very > time > consuming. > > The problem I see with 900 MIMO/450 is replacing literally over a thousand > antennas, > customers and towers. We made a substantial investment in LMG/Antel 900-360H > omni antennas. I know, omnis are bad, but they work for small sites. Problem > is, we > quickly outgrew most of the small sites, so we made yet another investment in > sectorizing with at least 4x90's. To replace all of that now would be... no, > just no. > > Besides the antenna thing, V pol is trashed from all the SCADA and other crap > so I see > no point in trying to do MIMO in 900. 64-QAM SISO would be better than FSK. > > On 9/19/2014 4:34 PM, Christopher Tyler via Af wrote: > > I love the 450, 450 is awesome, but 90% of our subs are on 900 MHz, what do > > we do > there, where is our upgrade path, what is the replacement for PMP100 in 900 > MHz? > > We have no alternative to 900 for most of our customers where we are, too > > many > hills and trees. We are still deploying 900 MHz radios in large quantities > simply > because we can't use anything else. Sure would be nice to have an easy way to > configure those radios, we (Animal Farm) have only been asking for that > feature for > the last 8 years, not like they didn't know about it or have the time to > figure it out. > Now they are giving it to us, but only on a platform where we don't really > need it yet. > > > > While I understand that PMP100 is somewhat antiquated, Cambium is still > > making > money on it and will continue to make money on it, so why not give us at > least some > development beyond bug fixes at least until there is a 900 replacement? Why > not a > 450 in 900 MHz that's using the newer hardware but still only 2x modulation. > We > would literally buy thousands of them within the next year. > >
