Dan, It's obvious to me by your post that you are an ISP that has branched into wireless. This is not the case for us and while you may be able to hold off on installs while making money on DSL and dial up customers, for us wireless is all we have and so this issue affects us somewhat differently from you. As for a redundant network, some of our towers in the downtown (and I am in KY so I use that word loosely) are redundant but there is just not an economically feasible way to build redundancy into a tower that is in the middle of nowhere and services 4 customers even when 2 of them happen to be small manufacturing facilities. Now before everyone starts ranting and raving about how with $600/mo in revenue off of a tower, we should be able to make it multi honed you have to remember that every network is different. If that were our only tower and therefore our only expense, it would be very feasible. However, it is not and so we cannot. As for Canopy, don't even get me started on that. We have a couple of Canopy backhauls and all I can say is that there is a reason Motorola is going to be EOLing them soon.
-Brian Ps. please don't misinterpret this post. I am not being rude nor did I take your post in that regard. I'm just stating facts. Tone is very hard to discern in a post sometimes. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan @ Wyoming.com Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2003 10:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Thanks for your support and the patience Brian if you are going to have these big buisness customers you should really think about setting up a redundant network. We use Canopy (5.7) and SB (2.4) equipment. This way we always have a back up solution for our customers. This is a very good thing to have when you serve big buisness customers that are paying $300 per month. We also have a DSL option available for most of our customers. The more redundant systems you can have in place for your back bone the better service you can provide to your customers. If you are only serving a few residential customers around your neighborhood then a simple network is adaquate, but when you get into serving buisness customers you have to have back up plans available. As for paying contractors to climb towers. Maybe you could look at hiring a full time employee that can do RF engineering plus climb your towers (We found one). He could help you set up and egineer these redundant systems that are a must if you are going to be in the buisness market. We have put wireless sales on hold until SB can get their firmware figured out, but we have yet to lose a customer because we were able to swap them out to a Canopy radio or with a good SB radio. We have a growing list of customers that are on hold to be installed as soon as the SB radio's stable out or if they really need to get set up then we will use Canopy. We try to use SB first as the radio is half the cost. We just got our RMA's in from Singapore and will do our first install with them in the morning and see how they preform. Thanks.......Dan The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org
