At 04:39 PM 7/9/2002 -0400, Russell Nelson wrote: >John Koenig writes: > > So is this old news... hence why no one is commenting on it? > > http://www.motorola.com/canopy/ > >It sure looks pretty darned reasonable. Not obvious if it uses a mesh >architecture, but it sounds like it does from the little I've read.
I was looking at it the other day, too, for a municipal client who wants to roll out cheap or free Internet access for its citizens and businesses. (Calling Nokia is also on my to-do list.) The innumerable headaches of customer premise installations cry out for relief with a simple, all-in-one PoE unit that Joe Homeowner can screw to a gable. But I'm guessing the CPE equipment in this case is closer to $800 than $200, and it's still not a firewall. Even if this city wasn't charging for net access, selling $750 CPEs to citizens still smacks of giving more to the "haves" than the "have nots". Where did you see hints of mesh architecture? The "User Manual" and "Online Demo" links don't work for me. I filled out an info request last week and have received nothing so far. Will 5.2-7 Ghz punch through neighborhood trees better than 2.4 Ghz? - John -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
