ear.
The cost to procure customers, and time to market to take them on, is more
costly usually than the gear that serves them. Once you ahve client base,
they can afford and can predict future revenue, to justify replacing gear
and getting funds to finance it.
Just my 2 cents.
Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband
- Original Message -
From: "John Scrivner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List"
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 1:00 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Legal Radio and Antenna Combos - Arethere anyin
existance?
I can tell you from past experience it is a good idea to find a good brand
and use it. One of the things I learned at the WCA show a couple of weeks
ago was that if you want to have a business worth selling later you had
better consider using one high-quality well-known platform instead of a
hodge-podge of radio solutions. Alvarion is definitely one of those "good"
brands. There are others but I am betting that many out there would choose
to go with Alvarion from the start if they had it all to do over again.
With that said I will not discount the value I have seen in others out
there like Trango, Tranzeo, Waverider, Mikrotik, Star-OS, etc. The trouble
is though that it is rare to find one brand with one management interface
(All FCC System Certified as well) for all the different platforms you will
need as a WISP. With Alvarion (and few if any others) you can literally
build your entire network on one trusted platform. I went to an Alvarion
sponsored conference on WiMAX triple play offerings in Washington D.C last
week. that was very informative but was NOT the reason I said what I did
about Alvarion. There was a company who specialized in WISP acquisitions at
the WCA show that described the most important factors in determining the
value of a company. One of the negatives about WISP operations was
generally the frequent use of a "hodge-podge" of different incompatible
platforms of radios. They stated this was a very big problem for WISP
valuations. They said that using one good brand of radios was a good way to
make your system worth its highest value. Just some food for thought here
guys. Especially anyone who might have funding but is new to running a
WISP. Rolling your own solution is not always the best way to go and can
actually hurt your efforts in many cases. Find a good brand and stick to
it.
Scriv
Kurt Fankhauser wrote:
The more you think about it the more you are going to find reasons not
to do it, what you have to do is just jump in and do it. Once you do you
will know what you want to do. Its like sky diving, you have to just
jump into it, if you stand up there and question it you will just freeze
up and not go anywhere.
Kurt Fankhauser
WAVELINC
114 S. Walnut St.
Bucyrus, OH 44820
419-562-6405
www.wavelinc.com
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Jason Wallace
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 8:45 AM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Legal Radio and Antenna Combos - Are there anyin
existance?
Marlon,
What would you suggest? I am afraid of proprietary stuff because I
don't know enough industry history to understand the players.
Jason
Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 wrote:
Hiya Jason,
Why not just buy ISP grade product? Then you don't have to worry about
all of this.
AND at 2.4 the CLIENT side isn't limited to 36 dB. It starts there with
a 30 dB radio with a 6 dB antenna. For every one db of radio tx dB you
drop you can go up 3 dB of antenna gain.
Marlon
(509) 982-2181 Equipment sales
(408) 907-6910 (Vonage)Consulting services
42846865 (icq)And I run my own
wisp!
64.146.146.12 (net meeting)
www.odessaoffice.com/wireless
www.odessaoffice.com/marlon/cam
- Original Message - From: "Jason"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 12:26 PM
Subject: [WISPA] Legal Radio and Antenna Combos - Are there any in
existance?
Everyone,
I am at my wits end. I have searched high and low for a mini-pci
radio & sector antenna combo for an 802.11b AP that are legal under the
current FCC rules, which by my interpretation are:
1. Total output is 36 dbm or less.
2. Antenna characteristics must be the same as an antenna that has been
approved for use with that radio, where TYPE refers to antennas with
SIMILAR in and out of band radiation patterns.
3. Antenna gain must be equal to or less than the maximum the radio has
been approved to work with.
I can NOT find a radio that is approved for any antenna with real gain.
I don't want to mind just the SPIRIT of the law, but the law itself.
What combos are you other guys who like building your own system. I
want to put together a Mikrotik with 3 radios a
