[WISPA] Wimax

2007-07-17 Thread Carl A jeptha
I have to attend a meeting tomorrow and need some real world experience on wimax and mesh. -- You have a Good Day now, Carl A Jeptha http://www.airnet.ca Office Phone: 905 349-2084 Office Hours: 9:00am - 5:00pm skype cajeptha

[WISPA] Ping

2007-07-17 Thread Larry Yunker
Ping? Would you like to see your advertisement here? Let the WISPA Board know your feelings about allowing advertisements on the free WISPA lists. The current Board is taking this under consideration at this

Re: [WISPA] Ping

2007-07-17 Thread Ryan Langseth
Larry Yunker wrote: Ping? Pong Would you like to see your advertisement here? Let the WISPA Board know your feelings about allowing advertisements on the free WISPA lists. The current Board is taking this

RE: [WISPA] CWA's suggested improvements of Form 477

2007-07-17 Thread Don Renner
Thought the list might like to see CWA's idea of reporting the FCC form 477. Additional info would be tiers of users, number of homes passed, speed tests, number of users by Zip +4, speed tests and a host of other goodies. Seems like CWA wants market research to find out size of Broadband

Re: [WISPA] CWA's suggested improvements of Form 477

2007-07-17 Thread Mike Hammett
I'm not sure who CWA is, but the current measurements of broadband availability are just about worthless. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: Don Renner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'WISPA General List'

Re: [WISPA] CWA's suggested improvements of Form 477

2007-07-17 Thread Mike Hammett
I'm not sure who CWA is, but the current measurements of broadband availability are just about worthless. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: Don Renner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'WISPA General List'

Re: [WISPA] CWA's suggested improvements of Form 477

2007-07-17 Thread Sam Tetherow
Most of this has been hashed over before, but there are two problems I see with their suggestions. First every communications company would be giving away essential customer information if they had to report customers by zip or even worse zip+4 along with speeds of those customers, especially

Re: [WISPA] CWA's suggested improvements of Form 477

2007-07-17 Thread David E. Smith
Don Renner wrote: Thought the list might like to see CWA's idea of reporting the FCC form 477. Additional info would be tiers of users, number of homes passed, speed tests, number of users by Zip +4, speed tests and a host of other goodies. Most of us will, I suspect, agree with the statement

Re: [WISPA] Wimax

2007-07-17 Thread Felix A. Lopez
Carl, Regarding your question, my understanding is a few of us wireless practioneers blog on various wimax sites in relation to WISP and enterprise. My subject matter expertise relates to utility applicaitons and munis. Many of these sectors are evaluating WiMax and WiFi for certain mobile and

RE: [WISPA] CWA's suggested improvements of Form 477

2007-07-17 Thread Don Renner
Mike, CWA is Communication Workers of America a very aggressive union. Here is main website http://www.cwa-union.org/ Subsidiary website for wireless (focus is primarily cell/telephone companies http://www.wirelessworker.org/ Don Renner -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WISPA] Wimax

2007-07-17 Thread Sam Tetherow
Can anyone confirm 232,000 WiMAX customers for Clearwire? I could believe total customers, but I would think that the majority of those would be using NextNet equipment and not WiMax. Sam Tetherow Sandhills Wireless Felix A. Lopez wrote: Carl, Regarding your question, my understanding is a

Re: [WISPA] Wimax

2007-07-17 Thread W.D.McKinney
Good question Sam, up here it's all NextNet so it sounds to me, more journalism that is erroneous. -Dee Alaska Wireless Systems 1(907)240-2183 Cell 1(907)349-2226 Fax 1(907)349-4308 Office www.akwireless.net - Original Message - From: Sam Tetherow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA

Re: [WISPA] Wimax

2007-07-17 Thread Peter R.
W.D.McKinney wrote: Good question Sam, up here it's all NextNet so it sounds to me, more journalism that is erroneous. -Dee What happens is that terms take on very general meanings to garner key word, alerts, and other RSS and subscription views. Wireless is used even when they are

Re: [WISPA] Wimax

2007-07-17 Thread Felix A. Lopez
Sam: I'm interested in verifying those statistics too because my understanding is the WIMax Plugfests are still going on and most of the equipment being installed is preWiMax: albeit in the 802.16 (d) flavor. I will post to the www.wimax.com blog and find out. I know many of the guys on the

RE: [WISPA] Wimax

2007-07-17 Thread Patrick Leary
Actually, 802.16d gear has been out there for a while now in WiMAX Forum certified versions (our .16d was certified two years ago). The plugfests you see going today are for 802.16e products, but the actual 16.e certification waves do not start until early next year. Our commercially selling

RE: [WISPA] Wimax

2007-07-17 Thread Patrick Leary
Error from my post... The line: ... we are selling both .16d and .16d WiMAX products in commercial volumes. Should read: ... we are selling both .16d and .16e WiMAX products in commercial volumes. Patrick Leary AVP WISP Markets Alvarion, Inc. o: 650.314.2628 c: 760.580.0080 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WISPA] CWA's suggested improvements of Form 477

2007-07-17 Thread Mike Hammett
Pfft... union. I can't believe I just agreed with a union. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: Don Renner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 2:21 PM Subject: RE:

RE: [WISPA] Wimax

2007-07-17 Thread Felix A. Lopez
Pat, there is a good write up about Alvarion on www.wimax.com blog by a Mr. Orr. Felix --- Patrick Leary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, 802.16d gear has been out there for a while now in WiMAX Forum certified versions (our .16d was certified two years ago). The plugfests you see going

RE: [WISPA] Wimax

2007-07-17 Thread Patrick Leary
Thanks Felix. So what is Jeff saying? (Got a direct link to the article?) Patrick Leary AVP WISP Markets Alvarion, Inc. o: 650.314.2628 c: 760.580.0080 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Felix A. Lopez Sent: Tuesday, July

[WISPA] history of the internet

2007-07-17 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
This is too cool! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2QdEj8UjBc marlon Would you like to see your advertisement here? Let the WISPA Board know your feelings about allowing advertisements on the free WISPA lists.

Re: [WISPA] CWA's suggested improvements of Form 477

2007-07-17 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
I spent quite a bit of time on the phone with the guy running this particular show. He called to see if clarifying their stance would help to garner our support. After our roughly hour long phone call I have to tell you guys that I liked him. And I liked what they are trying to do (this is

Re: [WISPA] history of the internet

2007-07-17 Thread Michael Erskine
Aye, and cool also is the fact that DIRNSA paid BBN to do the development of IP. Early Linux IP stacks still contained the copy rights. I think they were removed around the 2.4 kernel release. Marlon K. Schafer wrote: This is too cool! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2QdEj8UjBc marlon

Re: [WISPA] CWA's suggested improvements of Form 477

2007-07-17 Thread Michael Erskine
Marlon K. Schafer wrote: Their belief is that there are companies getting government moneys but are NOT actually servicing the customer bases that they are being paid to service. That's why they want the 477 data. To prove or disprove who's stealing what. Ver ... cough cough er...

Re: [WISPA] history of the internet

2007-07-17 Thread Jack Unger
Yes, that was 6 minutes and 51 seconds of time well-spent. Thanks! Marlon K. Schafer wrote: This is too cool! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2QdEj8UjBc marlon Would you like to see your advertisement here?

[WISPA] Switch with vlan

2007-07-17 Thread Butch Evans
I am in need of a switch (3, actually) that will allow me to prevent all communications between ports (vlans), but will trunk the traffic out an untagged port to the hotspot controller. Any suggestions appreciated. -- Butch Evans Network Engineering and Security Consulting 573-276-2879

Re: [WISPA] Wimax

2007-07-17 Thread Carl A jeptha
Thank you everyone, now I guess it is time to sleep and see where we go tomorrow. You have a Good Day now, Carl A Jeptha http://www.airnet.ca Office Phone: 905 349-2084 Office Hours: 9:00am - 5:00pm skype cajeptha Patrick Leary wrote: Thanks Felix. So what is Jeff saying? (Got a direct

Re: [WISPA] Switch with vlan

2007-07-17 Thread Mark Price
To prevent broadcast traffic between ports in the same vlan, you can do this using switchport protected in cisco catalyst 3550: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst3550/software/release/12.1_4_ea1/configuration/guide/Swbcsup.html#wp1029319 Hope this helps Mark Butch Evans

Re: [WISPA] Switch with vlan

2007-07-17 Thread John Thomas
HP Procurve Netgear Managed switches JT Butch Evans wrote: I am in need of a switch (3, actually) that will allow me to prevent all communications between ports (vlans), but will trunk the traffic out an untagged port to the hotspot controller. Any suggestions appreciated.

Re: [WISPA] Wimax

2007-07-17 Thread Steve Stroh
I can confirm that Clearwire has approximately no actual customers using WiMAX. Clearwire has done one experimental WiMAX deployment in the Portland area; all the rest of their deployments are using NextNet Wireless gear which is entirely proprietary, not WiMAX. Clearwire wants to give the