The web site will send your information over to Liz, though, IIRC. 



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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 

Midwest Internet Exchange 

The Brothers WISP 




----- Original Message -----

From: "Mathew Howard" <[email protected]> 
To: "af" <[email protected]> 
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 11:50:31 PM 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] mimosa 



The website does not handle FCC stuff... you still have to go through a 
coordinator, same as any other 11ghz link. 

They work, and they get a ton of throughput for cheap, but don't expect them to 
work like a SAF. Between the two, I think I actually prefer the AF11... they 
can't quite match the speed of the B11, but they behave more like a normal 
licensed radio than the B11... they just lack an SFP port and 80mhz channels. 



On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 10:41 PM, Steve Jones < [email protected] > 
wrote: 



we are looking to drop some dough on these guys if the sales pitch is true 


does the website handle the FCC stuff? I personally find that hard to believe, 
considering the FCC itself has a fee, unless the reseller (unnamed) is building 
it into the price. Still less than SAF 
Im not looking to move away from SAF, my only complaint with SAF is that it 
works too well, so much that I altered routing the other day before I realized 
the winds a while back turned the 800 plus pound ballast NPM and the signal 
drop wasnt weather fade and that up until essentially nothing the beast runs at 
full modulation 


Literally, the only reason for looking at mimosa is the low cost, and comparing 
the low cost of mimosa to SAF, its alot, considering SAF is relatively cheap. 


from what Ive seen, mimosa is like running mikrotik routers, you pay a shit ton 
less in exchange for a little more poking, not constant diddling, just 
occasional poking. 


I have no interest in looking at ubnt noisy crickets on our licensed gear, but 
mimosa seems promising 


I need a good teeth kick now before we commit to at least 3 links locked into 
this gear 


SAF presales engineering is on the cautious side, a good example is our first 
licensed link, our partner told us could be done with cambium at 2 foot 
antennas on each side 


the reseller told use with SAF it required a 3 and a 4, and that (without 
saying it) our partner was smoking crack cocain after they took bath salts. I 
have no doubt at 2 foot the link would have come up, but not to a degree that a 
30 db drop caused by a turned NPM would still result in full modulation until 
failure, 


I dont want to have an "It will link" solution at the end of the day 







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