Actually, the industry which is driving this for us isn't the WISP industry. Instead, it's the off-grid solar people who want their cell phone to beep when their solar system is having issues....
On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Josh Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote: > Unless you can beat the price of doing it with a r-pi w/ usb 3g/4g modem > or mikrotik routerboard with 3g/4g usb, then I wouldn't even worry about > it. The feature set and price would have to be truly impressive for me to > consider it over those 2 other solutions. > > On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 1:50 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I still want everyone else's answer to this... but I'll add my $0.02: (I >> guess what I'm saying is I don't want to hijack this thread....since I'm >> interested in everyone's answers.) >> >> I've been looking at adding a product to the PacketFlux line which uses a >> cellular modem to manage it. The hold up until recently has been the >> arrogance of the cellular companies, especially in the US. Getting a >> cellular modem module and integrating it isn't a big issue for us (I've >> been playing with this for a while). Jumping through the hoops the >> cellular companies require for this IS a big deal, and historically has >> cost a lot of money. It is amazing how you can take a module which the >> cellular companies have pre-approved on their network, but it still costs >> $20K to certify a product which uses the module as it was intended to be >> permitted to talk on their network. Add a SKU? Another 10K, even if it's >> virtually identical hardware. >> >> Recently AT&T has softened their policies on this to permit pre-certified >> modules on the network (supposedly) without jumping through the expensive >> hoops. So, this may be happening sooner than I would have expected. I >> sort of am envisioning some sort of hybrid connection to the sitemonitor >> line, plus ability to control other devices via snmp or telnet. >> >> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Eric Kuhnke <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> For example with HSPA+/LTE modems, to have proper OOB into the routers >>> at a crucial POP. >>> >>> $6/mo per active SIM card is pretty cheap for M2M data SIMs, though the >>> $/MB rate is not the best. But for the application I have in mind it would >>> be console SSH traffic, which is super low bandwidth. >>> >>> https://ting.com/rates >>> >>> For LTE they're an MVNO on AT&T and T-Mobile. >>> >>> Looking at the FAQ they say that the data usage can be limited and >>> monitored on a per-device basis, which could be useful. >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> *Forrest Christian* *CEO**, PacketFlux Technologies, Inc.* >> Tel: 406-449-3345 | Address: 3577 Countryside Road, Helena, MT 59602 >> [email protected] | http://www.packetflux.com >> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/fwchristian> >> <http://facebook.com/packetflux> <http://twitter.com/@packetflux> >> >> > -- *Forrest Christian* *CEO**, PacketFlux Technologies, Inc.* Tel: 406-449-3345 | Address: 3577 Countryside Road, Helena, MT 59602 [email protected] | http://www.packetflux.com <http://www.linkedin.com/in/fwchristian> <http://facebook.com/packetflux> <http://twitter.com/@packetflux>
