Well I can't share real numbers anyway, but the base station is probably
2-3x what you spent on the CAP320. Base station with antennas and an
ASN appliance is more like 4x compared to your 320. The management
software is multiple thousands of dollars, I saw a glance of those
numbers over somebody's shoulder, but I can't remember enough to give
you a good idea.
From what I've seen the CPE are about the same street price....not sure
why they're saying theirs are cheaper. Maybe we're paying too much for
ours. Supposedly we're getting a great deal and the vendor makes sure
to mention what a deep discount we have every chance they get....maybe
that's smoke and mirrors.
On a scale of UNBT to fuuuuuck, where on cost would the 320 investment
sit? Are we talking 10% more than 320, thats a manageable number for
the koolaid, if we are talking 50% then it becomes an issue. We just
finally got a scrapper to come take our retired Alvarion gear off our
hands, I think the boss cried a little to see half a million dollars
going to the scrapyard to yield maybe a grand. but overall, the
hardware was solid and still performed the way it was designed all
these years later, and they paid fuuuuuck for that gear. Telrad is
Alvarion as I understand it, so hopefully they brought over the
hardware quality.
The big question on our mind is what the back end for this is going to
cost (assuming the koolaid has sugar and isnt just food coloring in
toilet water)
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Adam Moffett <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On the other hand... their ACS software almost assuredly will
support the CSM320. Telrad has their own version of that same
Gemtek model.
It probably is a good migration path as long as you've got the
cash. If you want to migrate to LTE you would still have to
replace all the CPE eventually. It would be an expensive
proposition, but you could do it cleanly....replace the CAP320
with a compatible base station, slowly swap out CPE, then make a
firmware change to get yourself up to LTE.
I could go on about things I like and don't like about it.
Overall I would rather have Canopy, but if you're already swimming
in the WiMax side of the pool.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzAkMGKT5_M
I feel like there might be some koolaid here somewhere
--
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember
that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you.
Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a
reason. By all means, do not use a hammer. -- IBM maintenance
manual, 1925
--
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that
the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if
you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all
means, do not use a hammer. -- IBM maintenance manual, 1925
