Re: [WISPA] Cisco Mesh Equipment
Define monitoring? Up down status, or real time and historical data of link characteristics and health? Tom DeReggi RapidDSL Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: John J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 12:23 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Cisco Mesh Equipment If it would stop raining.. We don't have it all deployed yet, but here is what we know. They take a long time to boot, maybe 5 minutes. The range is poor, they are supposed to put out 26 dBm per Cisco, but they only put out 14 dBm per the controller interface. We questioned Cisco on this, and they calimed that the 26 dB was the total of transmit + receive. We are going to try to get an engineer to tell us what the radio is and what the REAL output power is. If the power is truly on 14 dBm, that is not good. The 2.4 radios ar supposed to put out 25 dBm, but the controller interface is only showing 17 dBm max. We are hoping that this is a limit in the BIOS that can be changed. We had 1 link at 3600 feet with 1 tree in the way. 7.5 dB omni on each end and no link. As soon as another engineer put a 1500 (Mesh AP) in his car and got between the other two, the link came up. This is with one end on a firehouse at about 35 feet and the other on a light pole at about 26 feet or so. The monitoring is not what we expected-there doesn't seem to be any way to monitor the 5 GHz backhauls, but the monitoring of the 2.4 is very good. We are waiting on the city to put in some long-range ethernet links between the stoplights so we will actually have something to bridge. They currently only use 5.7-5.8 GHz, but 4.9 is supposed to be available later this year. John -Original Message- From: Dylan Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 5, 2006 06:09 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] Mesh Equipment John, It's now April 5th. How are you faring with the Cisco mesh gear? On 3/1/06, John J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Cisco radios can do 4.9-5.8 GHz. I am assuming that 5.3-5.7 will be available in a update, since 4.9 is available now. Cisco apparently only has 6-8 deployments so far, and they are releasing updates regularly. Our install is tentatively scheduled for March 14th, so I should be able to post info shortly thereafter. Best, -- Dylan Oliver Primaverity, LLC -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Cisco Mesh Equipment
All of the above The controller has RSSI, several graphs, both current and historical, other APs seen, and a few other things we haven't completely dug into. When we get back down there, I will get a list of all the monitoring it supports and give a better review. John -Original Message- From: Tom DeReggi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 6, 2006 05:56 AM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] Cisco Mesh Equipment Define monitoring? Up down status, or real time and historical data of link characteristics and health? Tom DeReggi RapidDSL Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: John J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 12:23 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Cisco Mesh Equipment If it would stop raining.. We don't have it all deployed yet, but here is what we know. They take a long time to boot, maybe 5 minutes. The range is poor, they are supposed to put out 26 dBm per Cisco, but they only put out 14 dBm per the controller interface. We questioned Cisco on this, and they calimed that the 26 dB was the total of transmit + receive. We are going to try to get an engineer to tell us what the radio is and what the REAL output power is. If the power is truly on 14 dBm, that is not good. The 2.4 radios ar supposed to put out 25 dBm, but the controller interface is only showing 17 dBm max. We are hoping that this is a limit in the BIOS that can be changed. We had 1 link at 3600 feet with 1 tree in the way. 7.5 dB omni on each end and no link. As soon as another engineer put a 1500 (Mesh AP) in his car and got between the other two, the link came up. This is with one end on a firehouse at about 35 feet and the other on a light pole at about 26 feet or so. The monitoring is not what we expected-there doesn't seem to be any way to monitor the 5 GHz backhauls, but the monitoring of the 2.4 is very good. We are waiting on the city to put in some long-range ethernet links between the stoplights so we will actually have something to bridge. They currently only use 5.7-5.8 GHz, but 4.9 is supposed to be available later this year. John -Original Message- From: Dylan Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 5, 2006 06:09 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] Mesh Equipment John, It's now April 5th. How are you faring with the Cisco mesh gear? On 3/1/06, John J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Cisco radios can do 4.9-5.8 GHz. I am assuming that 5.3-5.7 will be available in a update, since 4.9 is available now. Cisco apparently only has 6-8 deployments so far, and they are releasing updates regularly. Our install is tentatively scheduled for March 14th, so I should be able to post info shortly thereafter. Best, -- Dylan Oliver Primaverity, LLC -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Cisco Mesh Equipment
If it would stop raining.. We don't have it all deployed yet, but here is what we know. They take a long time to boot, maybe 5 minutes. The range is poor, they are supposed to put out 26 dBm per Cisco, but they only put out 14 dBm per the controller interface. We questioned Cisco on this, and they calimed that the 26 dB was the total of transmit + receive. We are going to try to get an engineer to tell us what the radio is and what the REAL output power is. If the power is truly on 14 dBm, that is not good. The 2.4 radios ar supposed to put out 25 dBm, but the controller interface is only showing 17 dBm max. We are hoping that this is a limit in the BIOS that can be changed. We had 1 link at 3600 feet with 1 tree in the way. 7.5 dB omni on each end and no link. As soon as another engineer put a 1500 (Mesh AP) in his car and got between the other two, the link came up. This is with one end on a firehouse at about 35 feet and the other on a light pole at about 26 feet or so. The monitoring is not what we expected-there doesn't seem to be any way to monitor the 5 GHz backhauls, but the monitoring of the 2.4 is very good. We are waiting on the city to put in some long-range ethernet links between the stoplights so we will actually have something to bridge. They currently only use 5.7-5.8 GHz, but 4.9 is supposed to be available later this year. John -Original Message- From: Dylan Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 5, 2006 06:09 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] Mesh Equipment John, It's now April 5th. How are you faring with the Cisco mesh gear? On 3/1/06, John J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Cisco radios can do 4.9-5.8 GHz. I am assuming that 5.3-5.7 will be available in a update, since 4.9 is available now. Cisco apparently only has 6-8 deployments so far, and they are releasing updates regularly. Our install is tentatively scheduled for March 14th, so I should be able to post info shortly thereafter. Best, -- Dylan Oliver Primaverity, LLC -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
