Michael, It was my understanding that the Tsunami mulitpoint product provided 60Mb/s of throughput within a 60' arc. This capacity is shared by multiple bridges using a TDM algorithm. It was also my understanding that each bridge was capable of transmitting up to 20Mb/s and up to 3 of these bridges could pass traffic at this rate before competition for bandwidth occurred at the p2mp device. Is this correct? How many bridges do you source from a single p2mp device?
We have also been told that the range of the p2mp product is up to 6 miles. Have you found this to be consistently true? Have you encountered any substantial degradation in speed at this distance? Are there other p2mp products on the market that we should consider as an alternative? Has the acquisition by Proxim changed the quality of support for the Tsunami product (I had also heard good things about Western Mulitplex). At 12:41 PM 10/10/2002 -0500, you wrote: >We use the Tsunami point-to-multipoint system out here to connect >several phases of our on-campus apartments to the campus backbone. >Minus a lightening storm that took out some of the equipment, we've had >pretty good luck with them so far. Just remember that on the multipoint >system that the bandwidth (60Mbps in our case) is time sliced between >all of the subscribers, so it's not 60Mbps to each building, but 60Mbps >combined bandwidth. >-- > >--Mike > >-------------------------------- >Michael Griego >Wireless Network Administrator >University of Texas at Dallas > > > >On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 10:50, Scott Genung wrote: > > All, > > > > Is anyone evaluating or using the Tsunami multipoint products from Proxim > > (was Western Multiplex)? We are just starting to chat with them about the > > possibility of evaluating this product as a candidate to creating a > > wireless MAN using one of our residence halls as a mounting point. I'm > > intrigued by the technology but I'd like to hear about anyone's experiences > > with it before we get too far down the path. > > > > > > Scott Genung > > Manager of Networking Systems > > Telecommunications and Network Support Services > > 124 Julian Hall > > Illinois State University > > > > (309)438-8731 http://www.tnss.ilstu.edu > > > > ********** > > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at > http://www.educause.edu/memdir/cg/. > >********** >Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent >Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/memdir/cg/. Scott Genung Manager of Networking Systems Telecommunications and Network Support Services 124 Julian Hall Illinois State University (309)438-8731 http://www.tnss.ilstu.edu ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/memdir/cg/.
