Re: [WISPA] 10 GigE

2009-04-10 Thread mliotta
All the hard core routing and switching experts I know laugh when someone suggests Cisco. Cisco is like the WalMart of networking equipment. If you need something, chances are that they have something there that will mostly do what it is that you need. But if you need something for some

Re: [WISPA] 10 GigE

2009-04-10 Thread Mike Hammett
I think highly of Matt's advise when it comes to matters like this, so Juniper it is! (I refuse to buy anything Cisco.) - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -- From: mlio...@r337.com Sent: Friday, April 10,

[WISPA] High Throughput Licensed vs. Unlicensed

2009-04-10 Thread Jeff Ehman
All, This post is for those looking at putting in high throughput unlicensed radios. I can talk all day about the advantages of licensed (guarantee of 35-40db fade margin for starters) but I want to throw out some real world numbers I am seeing. Don't get me wrong, there is always a place

Re: [WISPA] 10 GigE

2009-04-10 Thread Charles Wu
Hey Matt, You're back? Or do you just need a break from changing diapers? -Charles -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of mlio...@r337.com Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 7:13 AM To: scubac...@gmail.com; WISPA General List

Re: [WISPA] High Throughput Licensed vs. Unlicensed

2009-04-10 Thread Brad Belton
Ok, I'll bite. What UL radio set is going to produce 150Mbps FDX and at what RF spectrum cost? Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Ehman Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 9:02 AM To: WISPA General List Subject:

Re: [WISPA] Waverider EUMs for sale

2009-04-10 Thread David E. Smith
Forbes Mercy wrote: What brand of AP's can a 900 MHZ EUM connect to? Waverider EUMs will only connect to Waverider CCUs, as far as I know. I'm reasonably certain the CCU (head-end) stuff is backwards-compatible, so these 3000-series EUMs should be able to talk to the newer CCUs, but

Re: [WISPA] High Throughput Licensed vs. Unlicensed

2009-04-10 Thread Gino Villarini
Just the PTP600 that I think off ... 30 mhz Gino A. Villarini g...@aeronetpr.com Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. tel 787.273.4143 fax 787.273.4145 -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Brad Belton Sent: Friday, April

Re: [WISPA] 10 GigE

2009-04-10 Thread Gino Villarini
Matt Where could one subscribe to such a list? NaNog List Gino A. Villarini g...@aeronetpr.com Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. tel 787.273.4143 fax 787.273.4145 -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of mlio...@r337.com

Re: [WISPA] High Throughput Licensed vs. Unlicensed

2009-04-10 Thread Jeff Ehman
150 is half duplex, so not this one. I should have specified that. Looking back, to really get a true comparison you would have to look at the 300mbps full which comes out to about 14k street. The licensed is FDX at 110mbps. So, this actually makes the case stronger for the licensed radio.

Re: [WISPA] 10 GigE

2009-04-10 Thread George Rogato
http://nanog.org/mailinglist/ Gino Villarini wrote: Matt Where could one subscribe to such a list? NaNog List Gino A. Villarini g...@aeronetpr.com Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. tel 787.273.4143 fax 787.273.4145 -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org

Re: [WISPA] 10 GigE

2009-04-10 Thread Brad Belton
Gino...Google is your friend...grin Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Gino Villarini Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 10:00 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] 10 GigE Matt Where could one subscribe to such

Re: [WISPA] 10 GigE

2009-04-10 Thread Jon Auer
http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog Also join Cisco-NSP if you are interested in Cisco gear: http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp And the Outages list occasionally informative: https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Gino

Re: [WISPA] High Throughput Licensed vs. Unlicensed

2009-04-10 Thread Brad Belton
From what I understand the PTP600 is an OFDM best effort radio. If the RF environment is favorable then it will pass data. If not then it slows down and/or starts dropping packets. I believe the PTP600 is also a HDX radio, is it not? Not trying to be adversarial...just interested in learning

Re: [WISPA] High Throughput Licensed vs. Unlicensed

2009-04-10 Thread Gino Villarini
Well, the ptp600 is mimo, so it has 2 radios... You can hard set it to 1 to 1 or 2 to 1 or adaptive bandwitdh allocation... So in a 1 to 1 setup you gey almost true fdx operation.. Nice thing is that you can GPS sync multiple units for freq reuse Gino A. Villarini g...@aeronetpr.com

Re: [WISPA] High Throughput Licensed vs. Unlicensed

2009-04-10 Thread Patrick Shoemaker
Manual: http://motorola.motowi4solutions.com/software/sw_downlink_public.php?id=20cc6c8c64aeea8fd064ea81e953dc25 Patrick Shoemaker Vector Data Systems LLC shoemak...@vectordatasystems.com office: (301) 358-1690 x36 http://www.vectordatasystems.com Brad Belton wrote: From what I understand the

Re: [WISPA] High Throughput Licensed vs. Unlicensed

2009-04-10 Thread Gino Villarini
IMHO the PTP600 is the best UL radio in the market... Gino A. Villarini g...@aeronetpr.com Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. tel 787.273.4143 fax 787.273.4145 -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Brad Belton Sent:

Re: [WISPA] High Throughput Licensed vs. Unlicensed

2009-04-10 Thread Jeff Ehman
Since it is Friday and I am bored Here's some interesting points 11 GHz Licensed Radio - 220 Mb (110 FD): -76 dBm PTP600 - 300 Mb (150 FD): -59.1 dBm - 200 Mb (100 FD): -68.1 dBm 12 Mile Shot - Availability for both systems using 2' dishes is 99.999% -- but we may need

Re: [WISPA] High Throughput Licensed vs. Unlicensed

2009-04-10 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Jeff, I think you have made a fine point. I realized about a year ago that with the cost of licensed links coming down, there wasn't a lot of reason to look at the high-end UL radios anymore.When a StarOS or MT setup will deliver 30-50meg of FD throughput at a very low cost, the next

Re: [WISPA] High Throughput Licensed vs. Unlicensed

2009-04-10 Thread Gino Villarini
In our case, we have a 41 mile shot pushing 50 mbps fdx with a PTP600, using 3 and 4 footers For us to go licensed, we would need 6 ghz (rain zone) and would need at least 8 footers on each end... Huge diferrence! Gino A. Villarini g...@aeronetpr.com Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. tel

Re: [WISPA] High Throughput Licensed vs. Unlicensed

2009-04-10 Thread 3-dB Networks
Sure it would. 6ft dishes with space diversity. I sold a link to a company in Nevada doing just that. been working fine for two years now. Dragonwave of course J You could always do 6GHz. Daniel White 3-dB Networks http://www.3dbnetworks.com From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org

Re: [WISPA] High Throughput Licensed vs. Unlicensed

2009-04-10 Thread Jeff Ehman
Travis, not everyone is in the middle of nowhere Idaho shooting from mountain top to mountain top with very little noise over 1 75 mile hop :) I have a feeling many people on this list would DIE for that kind of environment. Now, I have to say there will always be a place for certain products

Re: [WISPA] High Throughput Licensed vs. Unlicensed

2009-04-10 Thread Charles Wu
I do see Travis's point about the longer range shots, however. I've got a 35, 45 and 65 mile shots with StarOS and they work just fine but only put out about 18-25meg at those distances. That's enough for me, but I can see where you would want more capacity and I suppose that within that

Re: [WISPA] 10 GigE

2009-04-10 Thread RickG
Over the years, I've done a lot of work for Fortune 1000 companies. One time, as an alternative to Cisco, I suggested another product and was laughed out of the room. -RickG On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:12 AM, mlio...@r337.com wrote: All the hard core routing and switching experts I know laugh

Re: [WISPA] 10 GigE

2009-04-10 Thread Josh Luthman
Was it Netgear? Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. --- Henry Spencer On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 3:11 PM, RickG rgunder...@gmail.com wrote: Over the years, I've done

Re: [WISPA] 10 GigE

2009-04-10 Thread Brad Belton
Isn't there an old saying that goes something like; whether it works or not, nobody ever got fired for buying Cisco... Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of RickG Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 2:11 PM To: WISPA General

Re: [WISPA] 10 GigE

2009-04-10 Thread Gino Villarini
mikrotik Gino A. Villarini g...@aeronetpr.com Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. tel 787.273.4143 fax 787.273.4145 -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of RickG Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 3:11 PM To: WISPA General List

Re: [WISPA] 10 GigE

2009-04-10 Thread Lawrence E. Bakst
Mike, If you can set your application up to be more switching than routing based you could consider the new Arista switches. Very high 10 GbE port density with low cost. You don't specify what kind of routing you are doing but if it is BGP they have that in Beta now. I have no idea what the

Re: [WISPA] High Throughput Licensed vs. Unlicensed

2009-04-10 Thread jp
That's definitely overlooked. We basically don't have a choice and CAN'T install anymore backhauls in the 5.7-5.8 band at many of our tower sites as the spectrum just isn't available. It's used for a mix of p2mp or ptp links. And it's been that way for many years for us. We have freed up some

[WISPA] GigE pricing

2009-04-10 Thread Gino Villarini
Anyone with GigE connectionts that could share how much are you paying for it? Gino Sent from my Motorola Startac... WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/

Re: [WISPA] High Throughput Licensed vs. Unlicensed

2009-04-10 Thread Tom DeReggi
Which is why Moto/Ortho needs to look at lowering their price of PTP600, and making it back on volume. Trango Licensed Products are a PTP600 killer, 95% of the time. I'd argue that the Tlink45 also is 95% of the time, based on their periodic promo pricing. There is no question that the PTP600

Re: [WISPA] 10 GigE

2009-04-10 Thread Tom DeReggi
No but they can go broke :-) Tom DeReggi RapidDSL Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: Brad Belton b...@belwave.com To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 3:16 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] 10 GigE Isn't there an

Re: [WISPA] High Throughput Licensed vs. Unlicensed

2009-04-10 Thread Travis Johnson
I agree... I would probably purchase a few of the PTP600 radio sets if they were priced more in-line with current offerings of the licensed products. :) Travis Microserv Tom DeReggi wrote: Which is why Moto/Ortho needs to look at lowering their price of PTP600, and making it back on

Re: [WISPA] GigE pricing

2009-04-10 Thread Brad Belton
That's a pretty open ended question. Depends on location-location-location, commit level, term length, carrier just to name a few items that can influence the price. Cogent's website says they are the home of the $4 Megabit, but for some reason 99.99% of the places I ask for that deal they

Re: [WISPA] GigE pricing

2009-04-10 Thread Tom DeReggi
Cogent is no longer the cheapest, when you reach GigE levels. We'll be dropping them soon. Cogent is real big on only discounting for long terms, they are pushing the 3yr or 10gb, to get the attractive discounts. Also note some carrier's Gig-E transport can have different tiers based on how its

Re: [WISPA] High Throughput Licensed vs. Unlicensed

2009-04-10 Thread Tom DeReggi
Actually, I was referring to more in the line with other Unlicensed Products. :-) Tom DeReggi RapidDSL Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: Travis Johnson To: WISPA General List Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 6:10 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [WISPA] High Throughput Licensed vs. Unlicensed

2009-04-10 Thread Scott Carullo
This has been an outstanding thread I have enjoyed reading - and learned a bit in the process... thanks. I'll just add that while we are trying to keep the numbers trained to a common wisp - either you guys have a lucky horse shoe or achieving a $5000/mo revenue on one ap is a bit outside

Re: [WISPA] GigE pricing

2009-04-10 Thread mliotta
Assuming a 100 meg commit on a GigE port with a 1 year term at a major carrier hotel between $8 and $21 per meg depending on the carrier and your ratio. These days Cogent's pricing is no longer the market leader. Hurricane seems to have taken that up with their $3 per meg for a full GigE.

Re: [WISPA] GigE pricing

2009-04-10 Thread Mike Hammett
Hurricane Electric is down to $2/meg. Level 3 can be $7 at 1500 megs. These are in carrier hotels. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -- From: Gino Villarini g...@aeronetpr.com Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009

[WISPA] Time Warner Tests $150-Per-Month Unlimited Internet

2009-04-10 Thread Eje Gustafsson
Not seen anyone post this article but think it is of interest to people on the list. http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/data/showArticle.jhtml?articleI D=216500302 http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/data/showArticle.jhtml?article ID=216500302subSection=News subSection=News

Re: [WISPA] 10 GigE

2009-04-10 Thread RickG
No, it was Imagestream. On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.com wrote: Was it Netgear? Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.

Re: [WISPA] High Throughput Licensed vs. Unlicensed - change of topic -- customers / AP

2009-04-10 Thread Charles Wu
Which begs an interesting point -- how much revenue / AP? I would think $5k / month for a 20 MHz chunk of 5.8 spectrum, while a bit on the higher side, isn't an unreasonable goal Using Canopy...you have 14 Mb aggregate Selling for $50 / month residential -- that's 100 customers sharing 14 Mb

Re: [WISPA] High Throughput Licensed vs. Unlicensed - change of topic -- customers / AP

2009-04-10 Thread Travis Johnson
Hi, I think that's maybe a little high... we have a Canopy AP right now with 100 users on it... about 10% business and 90% residential and it's probably bringing in about $3,500 / month. We will probably load it up to about 120 users total, at which point it will be around $4,000 / month.