Replacing UBNT with what? 450?

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> On Jun 3, 2015, at 8:08 PM, George Skorup <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I don't buy the LTE NLOS pitch. It's too goddamn expensive to get good 
> performance (3 or 4 4x4 sectors instead of a dual omni or split 2x2 sectors) 
> to put 30, 40 or even 50 customers on a site which is all we have in rural 
> areas. We'll never make any money buying Telrad. I can put up 4 sectors of 
> 450 for ONE Telrad.
> 
> I get it though. Standardized stuff is nice. But if you don't have the 
> customers for it to make sense financially, all that goes out the window.
> 
> We never deployed any 320. And we're ripping out UBNT 3.65 as fast as 
> possible.
> 
>> On 6/3/2015 4:08 PM, That One Guy /sarcasm wrote:
>> Im stuck with it. We bought an overstock load of APs and SMs. We have a 
>> dream of Telrad working out to save the day with their firmware load. Some 
>> creative Telrad AP deployments gradually replacing the 320 APs, utilizing 
>> the 320 CPEs until we migrate the site to LTE with telrad CPEs, giving us 
>> 320 CPEs to redeploy.
>> 
>> The dream is somebody will write some magic code to sit on an intermediary 
>> server to communicate with the FCC database thing so we can redeploy the 320 
>> APs to small sites.
>> 
>> We had two test sites for the 450. One site landlord hasnt allowed us up 
>> there to swap equipment, we have to deal with that on the lease side and our 
>> other 450 test site has only 3 users on it with good links so we havent been 
>> able to test the 1x magic out.
>> 
>> I would have preferred to more aggressively pursue the 450 and be able to 
>> sell higher throughput higher dollar connections, to offset the potential 
>> nlos customers we would lose. something about being able to sync with 
>> competitors down the road seemed like a good idea to me, especially with an 
>> AP with 3x the throughput and the whole not using gear thats end of life, 
>> but i am but a lowly sysadmin with no access to the purse strings.
>> 
>>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Paul McCall <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I am just curious how many of you have decided to keep using the 320 series 
>>> because it goes through trees a lot better than the 450 series 3.65 product?
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Are you expanding with it as far as towers go?  Or, are you just adding SMs 
>>> to what you already have?
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Paul
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Paul McCall, Pres.
>>> 
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>>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
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