Matt Peterson wrote: > The CPE issues frustrates me; one of the major reasons I'm not rushing out > to do a WISP. I'd like a CPE with an IPsec or PPTP client, all customer > <-> WiPOP traffic would be encrypted/secure/marketing foo; no need to worry > about the latest 802 dot whatever standard or f/w upgrade. I can only get > this cost down to $350 (from antenna to customers wired NIC). Even rich > 'Bay Area' people with 2nd 'cabin' home (use to $100 setup DSL/cable) won't > go for that cost. > > My favorite CPE is SmartBridge's TOTAL AirBridge, check it out (~$450); > still no IPsec/PPTP though ;(
Matt, you may want to check out our product offering. We provide NEMA rated enclosures, a few radios like WET11, and Smartbridges (indoor and outdoor). We also have antennas available. Smartbridge Outdoor + 14-18dBi antenna, your looking at ~$289 with 14dbi or ~$309 with 18dBi. You could also use the Smartbridge indoor units w/pigtail, inside our NEMA rated enclosures and add the 14dBi antenna to that mix for a total of around $228. This doesn't include PoE injectors or cat-5 cable, but I'm sure you can come up with those things. Most of the items we sell are designed for WISP's and are sold in Qty 10 minimums. If there is enough interest out there, I can put together some specific combinations of products in order to give you some low-cost alternative CPE-Kits. We're currently getting ready to build some reasonable quantities of PoE injectors/Splitters (although smartbridges have native PoE support). We work closely with a number of manufacturers, vendors and distributors in order to bring prices down to a reasonable wholesale level. Its our goal to help drive prices down through competition in the marketplace. We are a WISP, and I fully understand the issues you up against, as getting initial CPE costs down is the primary issue in deploying an infrastructure to the normal every day people out there who don't "live" on the Internet, but still would like some "broadband" access. If there is any way that I can help, feel free to drop me a note. If you'd like to see us bring a product in (we negotiate heavily for the best possible price, so we can pass on those savings to our clients), let me know specifically what your looking for. Judd -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
