The numbers seem to add up to 1 customer per AP. If that's really the
case, then I don't think you're going to be able to justify any kind of
product.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Kurt Fankhauser" <lists.wavel...@gmail.com>
To: af@afmug.com
Sent: 11/30/2017 12:17:52 PM
Subject: [AFMUG] 900mhz 450i make sense to deploy?
So I have 2% of my customer base that is running 900mhz PMP100 using 11
different access points. I am trying to cost justify weather it is
feasible to upgrade them to PMP450i-900mhz. I am using a lot of Omni's
with the PMP100 so most likely I will need twice as many AP's as I
currently have because they won't all be on the same side of the
towers. So looking at costs I see the following:
PMP450i AP's x 20 = $46,000
900mhz sectors x 20 = $6,320
PMP450 SM x 20 = $4,784
SM antenna x 20 = $1,424
equipment cost total = $58,528
plus my time of putting it all up
I am currently grossing $934.00/month from the 2% of customers running
on the PMP100-900mhz now.
At this rate it would take 5 years to break even on deploying the
450i-900mhz and I really can't offer any better speeds with it than
what I was able to offer with the old FSK 2.4/5ghz stuff.
Is it just me or does this not make sense worth deploying?
