[WISPA] FCC FNPRM on Universal Service contributions -- ISPs could be taxed

2012-05-01 Thread Fred R. Goldstein
is here: http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2012/db0430/FCC-12-46A1.pdf -- Fred R. Goldstein fred at interisle.net Interisle Consulting Group +1 617 795 2701 ___ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http

[WISPA] Low-cost CLEC market entry approach for unsubsidized competitor

2012-02-16 Thread Fred R. Goldstein
The current FCC rules per November's CAF order allow ILECs to be subsidized to provide broadband unless there is an unsubsidized competitor who provides both voice and data service. Jack Unger has written an excellent petition to the FCC to change that to allow it to be unsubsidized

[WISPA] 3650 MHz permission letters?

2011-12-12 Thread Fred R. Goldstein
Does anyone have a standard letter to use to ask permission from satellite earth stations to use the 3650 MHz band within the 150 mile exclusion zone? Thanks. -- Fred Goldsteink1io fgoldstein at ionary.com ionary Consulting http://www.ionary.com/ +1 617 795 2701

[WISPA] My report on FCC Order and FNPRM, ICC and USF

2011-12-08 Thread Fred R. Goldstein
At its October meeting, the FCC adopted an Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in a series of long-open dockets. These cover related topics including the Universal Service Fund, Intercarrier Compensation and VoIP. But the Order itself wasn't released until the Friday before

[WISPA] FCC releases USF/ICC Order, rules on subsidizing ILECs

2011-11-21 Thread Fred R. Goldstein
On Friday, the FCC finally released the Order in their Intercarrier Compensation and Universal Service Fund docket. The executive summary had come out with the Adoption at last month's FCC Public Meeting, but the 759-page (!) Order took a while to finish. The results, from a WISP perspective,

[WISPA] FCC's proposed Remote Areas Fund

2011-11-01 Thread Fred R. Goldstein
I've been following the FCC's Intercarrier Compensation and Universal Service dockets for over a decade now, and have filed a heap of Comments on them. So naturally when an Order comes out, I pay a lot of attention. Usually I send a memo about it to my clients. However, while the FCC

[WISPA] Over-water shots

2010-09-04 Thread Fred R. Goldstein
What kind of experience does anyone here have in shooting backhaul links over water? I know that it does all sorts of nasty things to microwave propagation, but I have a large group of lakeside access points that will depend on backhaul being delivered from across the lake, about 10-15 miles.

[WISPA] Slight variations in antenna height, big path loss change

2010-08-30 Thread Fred R. Goldstein
I'm doing some path loss estimates in RadioMobile. Mainly 5.8 GHz stuff. I have a place where I'd like to run a point-to-multipoint sector as an injection feed to multiple APs in the mesh. This would need to run AirMax or Nstreme or NV2 in order to manage the traffic, but that part seems

[WISPA] Multiple sectors, one frequency?

2010-08-04 Thread Fred R. Goldstein
If I have a site with, say, Ubiquiti Rocket M5 radios plugged into 120 degree sector antennas, with Airmax (TDMA) turned on, do they have to be on separate frequencies, or can they coexist on one? The 5.8 GHz band is kind of crowded to be having three access frequencies plus two or more

[WISPA] MIMO 5.8 GHz panel antennas?

2010-07-30 Thread Fred R. Goldstein
I wonder if any of you have experience with 5.8 GHz MIMO antennas. I'm trying to design a point-to-point link, about 10 miles, that will carry a high percentage of a whole network's backhaul. So I'd like it to go at about 80 Mbps, MCS 12 in 20 MHz. The UBNT SR71-15 card can plug into a

[WISPA] Pole-mounted base stations

2010-07-19 Thread Fred R. Goldstein
A design I'm working on is in a hilly wooded rural/resort area, not farmland. It will need a fair number (perhaps a few dozen) sites to cover the planned turf. Each node will need both backhaul (mesh, in the loose sense) and access antennas. The obvious place to put these is atop utility

[WISPA] Maximum sector power?

2010-06-23 Thread Fred R. Goldstein
I'm just a little confused about some of these nice-looking access points. The UBNT Rocket M5, for instance, can put out +27 dBm. It plugs *right into* a nice 19dB sector antenna. Okay, the smaller, 120 dB sector is only 16 dB. Now math is not really my thing but I get a total ERP there of

[WISPA] MicroTik HWMPplus mesh?

2010-06-18 Thread Fred R. Goldstein
First off, I'd like to say hello to the list. Mike Hammett pointed me at it a couple of weeks ago, after I posted a wireless-related question (wireless in the trees) at isp-clec, and he reposted it here. This list is a lot more active... I've been reading the past few months archives and