Somthing easy to make that gets asked for on the list I noticed would be a POE Y cable that would allow you to put 2 radios on a customers house/tower with only 1 cable going into the house
— Sent from Mailbox On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Chuck McCown via Af <[email protected]> wrote: > How about an all-in-one tower device which includes some mixture of ac power > supply, dc-dc conversion, battery charging/management, Ethernet switch, > router, power injection with fiber conversion. > Seriously, I would think that if you adopted some of features RMS has that > you do not have it could help. > Perhaps a watchdog feature the cycles the power to the AP if it cannot ping > google for 15 minutes. I dunno, just brainstorming a bit. I personally > always want more telemetry, more voltage inputs. More isolation on the > voltage inputs. > Solar charge controller built into some of your other stuff? > Competitor jammer. > Pan tilt rifle remote. > Active denial transmitter. > AP seeking missile launcher. > From: Forrest Christian (List Account) via Af > Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2014 2:19 PM > To: af > Subject: [AFMUG] PacketFlux Product Ideas > It's been (quite) a while since I sent one of these messages out to the list. > With the release of all of our new gigabit injectors, it is time for me to > decide which products will be next out the door at PacketFlux. > We've got several products at various stages of completion, but almost all of > them I expect to be very low volume projects - the type of products we > complete just because they help fill out our product offering instead of > expecting a lot of revenue from them. A couple of these have appeared on > the website recently - I.E. a 2 Relay, 3 Switch module, and the > voltmeter/shunt input modules. > So, what I'd love to hear is some suggestions for products PacketFlux could > build which would help you in your WISP. I'm particularly looking for > products which if they existed would go at every one of your tower sites, or > even better at every customer location. I know these product ideas exist out > there, and I'd love to hear them. Feel free to throw ideas out which are > outside of the narrow niche that you think of PacketFlux fitting into. > One final note - there is always a query for an all-in-one tower device > which includes some mixture of ac power supply, dc-dc conversion, battery > charging/management, Ethernet switch, router, power injection, fiber > conversion, etc.. I've heard those loud and clear and am aware of that > desire. There's work being done in-house toward something like that, but > there are many hurdles left to make it a reality. If there's a simplified > version of this which would fit a specific, widespread, need I'd love to hear > about it, but the idea of a device you put into your rack and it handles > everything needed at a tower site is still quite a ways off for us. > So, throw your best ideas out there... I'd love to take a couple and run with > them. > -forrest
