It's the same stuff as nextnet well not exact same they
came to show us a presentation *600$ per cpe and 50g's per sectorial ap*
to cover our 27square mile island they told us to give full coverage we
needed 10 repeaters and we would have bulletproof wireless NLOS access,
there units just sit in the house plugged into Ethernet and your on no
more mounting of antennas or anything just give the client the cpe and its
off plus it had options for virtual isp's and shit like that but I didn't
really need all that cause our islands too small as it is. It's a
wonderful idea and then we figured out WHY it was so great at NLOS, they
had some interesting technology to get beyond multipath problems on 5.8
(they were doing it for 2.4 also if we wanted I but we had to secure 3
PRIVATE 2.4 channels that we could lock down for our own use.. HAHA ye
sure) but as I was saying it's a 2 WATT amp in the CPE and a 2 WATT amp on
each AP... umm guys if we put 2 watt amps on our smartbridges with a 5db
omni and a 20db sectorial with 2 watts of power.. wouldn't that basically
cover the NLOS concept LOL. Just my 2 cents, but the beam stearing does
seem interesting no where near as expensive as the nextnet stuff as for
vivato there awesome units in theory I guess would love to have a few to
test out, where are they selling them haven't seem any distro's with them,
and the beamsteer company I wonder how there gonna license there
circuitry.
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From:
Joe Laura [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 7:54 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can they really claim this is NLOS? Under what
circumstances? I tried it in
new orleans and had
problems 1 block away. They said it might have been the
construction of the buildings. I have seen smartbridges penetrate a
wall or
two under ideal conditions. I still
wouldnt consider that NLOS though.
Superior
Wireless
New Orleans,La.
www.superior1.com
----- Original Message
-----
From: "Oliver Shaw"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday,
May 31, 2003 1:55 AM
Subject: Re: [smartBridges]
bandstearing?
>
> Yes, vivato does steer
the beam as well. They call it packet steer because
> they steer every packet toward the target CPE. In other words,
the switch
> follow the exact location of each
client and beam the signal only toward
> that
client in a narrow 7% beamwidth. This makes the signal strong and
cut
> down wasted rf energy. There is a second
antenna just "listen" to the CPE
> and receive
packets from that direction. There is one more antenna
> programmed to keep track of the locations of each client, the
coordinates
> of each client is then send to
the "transmit" and "receive" antennas to
>
maximize range.
>
>
The switch can be mounted outdoor and beam all the signals to
customers
> inside buildings. All the customers
need is a standard wireless card in
> their
PCs. The list price I last heard is $9,000.00 for the indoor
version
> and about $14,000.00 for the outdoor
verson.
>
> The only
way WISPs can bring wireless access to the masses is eliminate
> the need for externally mounted outdoor antenna on
the customer side and
> the customer can use
off the shelf wireless cards (about $50.00). Lets be
> honest, do you really expect the most customers pay hundreds
os dollars to
> buy special CPEs and outdoor
antennas? These stuff will work in small
>
scale in rural regions where adsl and cable internet service is not
> available.
>
> I love SB equipment and I wish SB can focus on
research and manufacture
> NLOS wireless
products. There is a huge market waiting for these. A good
> place for SB to start is WIMAX compliance
products.
>
>
> Oliver
>
>
> On Fri, 30 May 2003, Marlon
Schafer (509-982-2181) wrote:
>
> > Vivato does NOT beam steer!!!!!
> >
> > They packet
steer. Big huge difference.
> >
> > marlon
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Oliver Shaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 6:21 PM
> > Subject: Re: [smartBridges]
bandstearing?
> >
> >
> > > Hi Chris,
> > >
> > >
Beam steering is just one of technique used by some to focus the
signal in
> > > certain
specific way to improve range. These wifi switch act as the
normal
> > > base
station or access point as we know of. On the customer end they
still
> > > use the
standard wifi (802.11b) cards.
> >
>
> > > The other company using
similar antenna technique is vivato.net. The
>
> > advantage these switches is the extended range of coverage. They
can
cover
> > > 2
to 3 miles NLOS.
> > >
> > > Oliver
> > >
> > >
> >
>
> > > On Fri, 30 May 2003, phantam
wrote:
> > >
>
> > > :: Posted in wrong msg reply ::
> > > >
> > >
>
> > > >
> > > > Is beam stearing still 802.11? It is right?
Just heard that
bandspeed is
> > > > gonna be licensing there bandstearing chips out
sounds intriguing.
While
> > im
> > > > on the
subject are there any wifi switches that aren't bound to 1
access
> > > > point?
Too bad I haven't found one that works for SB's LOL
> > > >
> > > >
Chris
> > > >
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