Re: [WISPA] Fwd: Dateline NBC Special on TowerDogs

2008-07-19 Thread David Hulsebus
80 cents on the dollar for me in southern Indiana. Dave Bob Moldashel wrote: Can't be any worse than it is right now.like $104 per $100 of salary in NY -B- On 7/18/08 12:19 AM, Larry Yunker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: according to figures cited by OSHA, these so-called tower dogs

[WISPA] 900 MHz Integrated Antenna Enclosure

2008-07-19 Thread Mike Hammett
I've seen one by PacWireless and one by MTI. Does anyone know of one with greater gain than 12.5 dBi? -- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com WISPA Wants You! Join today!

Re: [WISPA] 900 MHz Integrated Antenna Enclosure

2008-07-19 Thread Leon D. Zetekoff, NCE
* Mike Hammett wrote, On 7/19/2008 12:40 PM: I've seen one by PacWireless and one by MTI. Does anyone know of one with greater gain than 12.5 dBi? Hi Mike...ArC Wireless has some...we use them and are good Titan Wireless carriers them. take care leon

Re: [WISPA] top 10 benefits of Wimax in 3.65ghz - my 2 cents

2008-07-19 Thread Charles Wu
And these are as robust and immune from interference as Canopy? C'mon Chuck...you know better =) -Charles --- WiNOG Wireless Roadshows Coming to a City Near You http://www.winog.com - Original Message - From: Charles Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [WISPA] top 10 benefits of Wimax in 3.65ghz - my 2 cents

2008-07-19 Thread Charles Wu
Alvy? Put it this way...do you want to pay $1000 for a CPE, or $200-300 for a CPE? That said, it's worth noting that not all down-converted / hacked 802.11x are created equal Case in point...compare manufacturers who have done more work on their system (getting into the PHY / rewriting or

Re: [WISPA] top 10 benefits of Wimax in 3.65ghz - my 2 cents

2008-07-19 Thread Charles Wu
Tom, Although hardware is a portion of any product investment...more importantly, the high costs that you see up-front have to do with the expected amortization of RD For example...one may ask, why are WiMAX basestations 3-8x the cost of a proprietary base station Well, in the international

Re: [WISPA] top 10 benefits of Wimax in 3.65ghz - my 2 cents

2008-07-19 Thread Charles Wu
Wu-WU Special? Or the Mr. That Said Special? Hehe... Maybe it's a subliminal message to get you to contact me off list =) -Charles --- WiNOG Wireless Roadshows Coming to a City Near You http://www.winog.com

Re: [WISPA] top 10 benefits of Wimax in 3.65ghz - my 2 cents

2008-07-19 Thread Charles Wu
Travis, The Trango 5830 / 900 / 2400 were up/down-coverted 802.11b - not 802.11a systems The only 802.11a multipoint system that Trango had was MM5, and it is my understanding that (1) it was never for 900 MHz and (2) it has been put on hold / discontinued -Charles

Re: [WISPA] top 10 benefits of Wimax in 3.65ghz - my 2 cents

2008-07-19 Thread Charles Wu
I'd love to know more about WiMAX, but I seem to get one extreme or the other from those I talk to -- it either solves world hunger, or it's a giant piece of crap. Neither of the above statement have merit Which reminds me of an interesting insight I've learned on the role of subject matter

Re: [WISPA] top 10 benefits of Wimax in 3.65ghz - my 2 cents

2008-07-19 Thread Gino Villarini
Iirc, there where plans for a mm2 and mm9 series... gino -Original Message- From: Charles Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 2:51 PM To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Subject: Re: [WISPA] top 10 benefits of Wimax in 3.65ghz - my 2 cents Travis, The Trango 5830 /

Re: [WISPA] top 10 benefits of Wimax in 3.65ghz - my 2 cents

2008-07-19 Thread Travis Johnson
Hi, You are correct... my mistake. However, the MM5 was going to be 5ghz along with an MM2 (2.4ghz) and MM9 (900mhz)... but as you mentioned, the products have been discontinued. Which really leaves me wondering what Trango is going to be selling? Their 5 year old product is getting slow, and

Re: [WISPA] top 10 benefits of Wimax in 3.65ghz - my 2 cents

2008-07-19 Thread Chuck McCown - 3
Their 45 has promise. - Original Message - From: Travis Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 1:04 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] top 10 benefits of Wimax in 3.65ghz - my 2 cents Hi, You are correct... my mistake. However, the

[WISPA] 900 MHz Foliage Penetration

2008-07-19 Thread Mike Hammett
How much foliage penetration should I expect from a 900 MHz system? I'm looking at an area which has 30' - 50' thick tree lines every 1/2 to 1.5 miles. I'm looking at 13 dBi sector with an approx 24 dB radio (figure a dB or two for cable loss). For CPE I'm looking at 13 - 15 dB CPE antenna

Re: [WISPA] top 10 benefits of Wimax in 3.65ghz - my 2 cents

2008-07-19 Thread Charles Wu
Their 45 has promise. Chuck, if you're talking about their high-bandwidth multipoint 5 GHz product, it was recently halted / stalled / discontinued -Charles --- WiNOG Wireless Roadshows Coming to a City Near You http://www.winog.com -Original

Re: [WISPA] top 10 benefits of Wimax in 3.65ghz - my 2 cents

2008-07-19 Thread Chuck McCown - 3
No, the point to point. - Original Message - From: Charles Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 2:43 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] top 10 benefits of Wimax in 3.65ghz - my 2 cents Their 45 has promise. Chuck, if you're talking about

Re: [WISPA] top 10 benefits of Wimax in 3.65ghz - my 2 cents

2008-07-19 Thread Charles Wu
Trango is a very opportunistic company ran by a smart and opportunistic individual, and Z tends to chase the market that makes Z the most money (can't really blame him, as every small business / entrepreneur ultimately employs a similar type of strategy)...at this juncture, their cheap licensed

Re: [WISPA] top 10 benefits of Wimax in 3.65ghz - my 2 cents

2008-07-19 Thread Chuck McCown - 3
CopperCom... Hmmm. Taqua is still around and strong. I have a story to tell you about Taqua someday. Motorola: There still is no SM left behind. The 400 is a totally different product line. But they are still coming out with new Canopy products. The line may bifurcate, but they are still

Re: [WISPA] top 10 benefits of Wimax in 3.65ghz - my 2 cents

2008-07-19 Thread Charles Wu
No, the point to point. It is a decent product, as long as you don't need it to support high pps and can deal with occasional instability with certain types of traffic Here, IMO, is a more promising (and cheaper) product Here's comments from a customer's testing experience (this one had come

Re: [WISPA] top 10 benefits of Wimax in 3.65ghz - my 2 cents

2008-07-19 Thread Mike Hammett
Yes, I have regretfully dealt with CopperCom. T.38 was broken on this and their stance was, No one else has this problem, too bad. -- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: Charles Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General

Re: [WISPA] top 10 benefits of Wimax in 3.65ghz - my 2 cents

2008-07-19 Thread Travis Johnson
Charles, How about selling hundreds of AP's and thousands of SU's to a single customer... and now that's gone. I understand selling a $10k radio has more profit than a few AP's and SU's, but I am only ever going to buy a "few" of the $10k radio sets, compared with literally thousands of

Re: [WISPA] top 10 benefits of Wimax in 3.65ghz - my 2 cents

2008-07-19 Thread Chuck McCown - 3
I have been on both ends of this as a manufacturer. I made airborne PBX systems that were installed in the avionics bay of head-of-state, military command and control and corporate fleet aircraft. Almost got airforce1. (I could only do 48 phones and they needed more!) I was very proud of

Re: [WISPA] 900 MHz Foliage Penetration

2008-07-19 Thread reader
My experience is that you'll get around 500 feet of solid foliage. If you're trying to go 5 miles, you have to get the antennas WAY up in the air, or you get serious Fresnel zone losses. This means that 900 mhz is actually somewhat limited to smaller cells than you'd think otherwise. Yes,

Re: [WISPA] top 10 benefits of Wimax in 3.65ghz - my 2 cents

2008-07-19 Thread Charles Wu
Travis, I agree with you 100%...I still think there's a huge opportunity in the market right now that's being missed for a solid 2nd player (not Motorola Canopy) in the last-mile access space However, neither you nor I run Trango If you step back and look at the situation, this discussion is

Re: [WISPA] top 10 benefits of Wimax in 3.65ghz - my 2 cents

2008-07-19 Thread Charles Wu
Chuck, I would argue that it's not really an apples-to-apples comparison for you, due to the fact that you're just selling a passive plastic or metal device that really doesn't go bad (I know there's always exceptions...) Over the years, unless something arrived damaged in shipping, we have

Re: [WISPA] 900 MHz Foliage Penetration

2008-07-19 Thread D. Ryan Spott
Mike, Take a look at tranzeofaq.com. I have a pretty good example of a 2.75 mile shot through trees with 6mbps throughput. ryan On Jul 19, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: How much foliage penetration should I expect from a 900 MHz system? I'm looking at an area which has 30' - 50'

Re: [WISPA] 900 MHz Foliage Penetration

2008-07-19 Thread Mike Hammett
Is that elevation at the bottom? -- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: D. Ryan Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 10:01 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] 900 MHz

Re: [WISPA] 900 MHz Foliage Penetration

2008-07-19 Thread D. Ryan Spott
Yes. ryan On Jul 19, 2008, at 8:39 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: Is that elevation at the bottom? -- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: D. Ryan Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org

Re: [WISPA] top 10 benefits of Wimax in 3.65ghz - my 2 cents

2008-07-19 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Hi Travis, I'm with you - the Nanostations are a pretty amazing product. I've been deploying Nanostations on 10mhz channels in 2.4 and 5ghz with StarOS access points and the performance/interference resistance is pretty amazing at ANY price point. I could say the same thing for the newer

Re: [WISPA] Just what we need.

2008-07-19 Thread Tom DeReggi
Why not? Isn't that kinda what Cable Cos and ILECs Do? Tom DeReggi RapidDSL Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: Chuck McCown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 2:37 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA]

[WISPA] Nanostations

2008-07-19 Thread Travis Johnson
Matt, I agree with almost everything you said... except the polling part. Having a robust, efficient polling system is the best thing available for outdoor wireless. That is one of the main reasons we are now using Mikrotik is because of their Nstreme and polling system. We are finding now