Travis Johnson wrote:
20 years ago before the "fiber" and MCI was using links, they cost
more than $150k. Even our local cell phone provider has point to point
links that are over $100k today.
That's nice, but they don't have to cost that much. I know one of the
local metro counties here is using 7Ghz licensed for trunking their 911
operations and each link cost under $50k. I am not privy to the uptime
of these links, but I am guessing that they must be pretty reliable if
they are used for 911 by a government entity.
I've been doing this for almost 10 years.... I have THOUSANDS of
wireless customers. How many customers do you have? The total number
of failures is relative to the number of CPE.
I don't really see how we can compare our businesses as we don't really
do much multipoint. A customer that just buys a T1 replacement for a
single location is the exception in our business. Most of our customers
are buying a lot more bandwidth and/or have many locations. For example,
one of our CLEC customers just placed an order for 14 new 3Mbps links.
You think a CLEC is going to use us for last mile if we can't provide
them with a 99.99%/50ms SLA?
And if you are using CPE that is more than $150, maybe you should be
looking at Trango. :)
We evaluated Trango and even used them in a the field for a while. We
don't use Trango anymore.
-Matt
--
WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org
Subscribe/Unsubscribe:
http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
