Re: [WISPA] PPPoE Termination point -- NOC or Tower
What kind of AP’s do you use? We use Mikrotik AP’s and the PPPOE is done at the tower. We use a Radius server to centralize the management of the customers. Chris If you don’t use Mikrotik’s already then a 493ah would be a good solution. From: Marco Coelho Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 10:33 AM To: motor...@afmug.com ; WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] PPPoE Termination point -- NOC or Tower We're at another growth milestone and are evaluating some network changes. We are planning on doubling our network footprint this next quarter. Currently, we terminate all PPPoE connections at a main NOC. This has shown some limitations as time has gone on. They are manageable, but it would be better not having to deal with. We are looking into installing small servers at each tower and just running OSPF between that tower and our NOCs. This would tend to make cpe connections more robust as packet loss due to interference caused by a clueless or unscrupulous competitor would not leave the customers linksys router lost. What are are the general opinions here on this? If tower site termination is the norm, what hardware (extended temp range) are you using at the towers? Microtik or other software? -- Marco C. Coelho Argon Technologies Inc. POB 875 Greenville, TX 75403-0875 903-455-5036 WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] PPPoE Termination point -- NOC or Tower
I use Mikrotik RB493AH now. If you need something bigger, look at the other RouterBoards. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com On 11/10/2010 10:33 AM, Marco Coelho wrote: We're at another growth milestone and are evaluating some network changes. We are planning on doubling our network footprint this next quarter. Currently, we terminate all PPPoE connections at a main NOC. This has shown some limitations as time has gone on. They are manageable, but it would be better not having to deal with. We are looking into installing small servers at each tower and just running OSPF between that tower and our NOCs. This would tend to make cpe connections more robust as packet loss due to interference caused by a clueless or unscrupulous competitor would not leave the customers linksys router lost. What are are the general opinions here on this? If tower site termination is the norm, what hardware (extended temp range) are you using at the towers? Microtik or other software? -- Marco C. Coelho Argon Technologies Inc. POB 875 Greenville, TX 75403-0875 903-455-5036 WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
[WISPA] PPPoE Termination point -- NOC or Tower
We're at another growth milestone and are evaluating some network changes. We are planning on doubling our network footprint this next quarter. Currently, we terminate all PPPoE connections at a main NOC. This has shown some limitations as time has gone on. They are manageable, but it would be better not having to deal with. We are looking into installing small servers at each tower and just running OSPF between that tower and our NOCs. This would tend to make cpe connections more robust as packet loss due to interference caused by a clueless or unscrupulous competitor would not leave the customers linksys router lost. What are are the general opinions here on this? If tower site termination is the norm, what hardware (extended temp range) are you using at the towers? Microtik or other software? -- Marco C. Coelho Argon Technologies Inc. POB 875 Greenville, TX 75403-0875 903-455-5036 WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
