Yup, I did mean all network elements.
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From: "Nathan Anderson" <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: 4/7/2017 4:20:14 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 3.65 Wimax
Why does it necessarily cause more performance problems than TR-69?
Wouldn't TCP-based TR-69 have more overhead than UDP-based SNMP?
Genuinely curious about this because this is not the first time I have
heard this claim.
I don't mean to speak for him, but just based on what he said and how
it was phrased, I suspect that Adam wasn't necessarily just complaining
about lack of SNMP in CPE (in which case he could just standardize on
CPE7000 anyway, which actually has SNMP + full MIB available), but in
all network elements (eNB, EPC if you have centralized EPC, etc.). UL
resource blocks available to UEs would have no bearing on the ability
to manage an eNB with SNMP.
-- Nathan
From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rick Harnish
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2017 1:15 PM
To:[email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 3.65 Wimax
SNMP eats up a lot of resource blocks in LTE. With limited UL resource
blocks, it can cause performance problems.
Respectfully,
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Rick Harnish
Director of WISP Markets
Baicells Technologies North America, Inc. <https://na.baicells.com/>
Mobile: (972) 922-1443
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From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adam Moffett
Sent: Friday, April 7, 2017 4:01 PM
To:[email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 3.65 Wimax
We have something like 20% of our Wimax customers converted to LTE.
Throughput is better in most cases. Latency is about half.
nLOS success is usually similar to Wimax, but we've had a few
surprises. Some CPE actually got worse, but they were generally
fixable with antenna adjustment. Apparently due to layer1 differences
they may respond differently to nearby objects. One specific thing i
can think of is if you have the CPE mounted on the side of the house
such that it looks the long way down the house.....Wimax doesn't seem
to care about having the house next to your path, but LTE did not like
that (SNR went from 25 to 5 in one such case). In another case, the
path turned out to be just barely through dirt. It was clipping the
edge of the hill. Wimax worked with a marginally acceptable signal,
but LTE had no connection at all. I think that was the only one we
lost.....and really with dirt in the way I'm sure we would have
eventually had a problem with the Wimax too.
I like Telrad's Breezeview software. They're going to add some TR-69
support in the next release so Breezeview can be the configuration
server for your CPE, and I'm really looking forward to that.
My only complaint is that there are still some bugs that I can't live
with. It has been getting better with each software release, so I feel
like we're getting closer to victory.
I really really wish the Telrad equipment supported SNMP. I understand
the technical benefits of NetConf and TR-69, but SNMP software is
cheap/free whereas right now software for TR-69 and NetConf are both
$$$. Ultimately I think they're on a path to getting us good data via
Breezeview, which will collect a blend of data from the Base Station
and the CPE, and what we're paying for Breezeview is not as much as we
would pay for a TR-69 ACS and an NMS supporting NetConf. I still wish
there was SNMP....but I think we'll get along with Breezeview.
The LTE only UE (Telrad 8000) is better than any of the Wimax CPE I've
seen...and somehow it's also cheaper.
Anyway, LTE is a viable alternative to Wimax. You will pay more for it
than you did for Wimax regardless of who the vendor is. There is also
a learning curve....there's a different set of terminology for
everything and more acronyms than you can shake a stick at.
------ Original Message ------
From: "SmarterBroadband" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: 4/7/2017 3:09:47 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 3.65 Wimax
Like you we use Telrad WiMAX. It has been good for us. We will also
transition to LTE soon.
From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adam Moffett
Sent: Friday, April 7, 2017 11:14 AM
To:[email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 3.65 Wimax
We still have it, yes. Transitioning to LTE.
If you like-hated wimax, then you'll like-hate LTE even more.
If you loved Wimax, then I don't think we can be friends.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Philip Rankin" <[email protected]>
To: "af" <[email protected]>
Sent: 4/7/2017 1:56:26 PM
Subject: [AFMUG] 3.65 Wimax
Is anyone still operating 3.65 Wimax?
Has any other technology/wireless protocol come along that can
compete with Wimax's superior nLos capability? At any other bands?
I have no interest in 900.
Thanks in advance for any feedback!
--
Philip J. Rankin
Wireless Telecommunications Services
PO Box 24
Pittsburg, KS 66762
