And lets not forget about all of the really nice things that Motorola does
for the WISP industry at the FCC.
NOT
marlon
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From: "Matt Larsen - Lists" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Best system for a new WISP
As a former Canopy user, I would like to point out a couple of issues not
mentioned here.
1) Canopy is limited to vertical polarity in PTMP deployments. Trango
and many other systems can be deployed in horizontal polarity, pretty much
avoiding any Canopy in the area.
2) Canopy systems will be more robust in comparison to other systems
deployed at the same antenna gain and polarity, and they will also coexist
nicely with other Canopy systems if they are all running GPS sync on the
access points. HOWEVER, non-synced Canopy causes other Canopy systems all
kinds of problems, and other types of systems will take a Canopy system
down if the other system has higher gain and runs on the same path.
Canopy will run with 3db of signal to noise separation, which is more
robust than 802.11b for example which needs 5-6db - but that doesn't make
it immune to noise. There are situations where the poor antenna design of
the Canopy ends up getting more noise and will run worse than a better
engineered 802.11b system.
It is easy to build a 2000lb elephant (legally, I will add) that will kick
the 500lb gorilla's butt. Been there, done that. I'm glad I don't have
to deal with Canopy any more.
Matt Larsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Forrest W Christian wrote:
Richard Goodin wrote:
I have been planning my WISP for about a year, and have yet to begin
delivery of bandwidth to customers.
Since Canopy hasn't been mentioned yet, I'll mention it.
You really can't go wrong with a canopy installation. It works, even in
the presence of noise that would kill other systems. We swapped a dying
(due to interference) Trango system with a canopy system well over a year
ago and haven't looked back. As customers on our existing 802.11b
network have problems we just swap them to Canopy.
Some here will probably mention canopy's "abusive" spectrum use. Yes,
Motorola uses a very agressive modulation which both provides for
incredible interference robustness, but unfortunately doesn't play very
well with others. Systems with marginal link budget will fail when put
in the presence of a motorola radio. I have heard this referred to as
the 500 pound gorilla approach - I.E. where does a 500 pound gorilla set?
Anywhere he wants to. I find it hard to see this as a disavantage to
the Canopy operator. After all this is business, and you need to make
decisions which improve your bottom line.
One more thing... you need to be very careful about FCC certification of
systems. Many of the systems which people put together themselves are
not legal in the eyes of the FCC. In short, buying a radio from vendor A
and pairing it with an antenna from vendor B may or may not be legal,
even if the EIRP limit is not exceeded. Plus, you will have vendors
(distributors mostly) which will lie to you about whether or not a given
pair is legal. Currently many WISP's are doing things which are
definitely not legal under the rules, and count on the FCC's continued
non-enforcement of the part-15 bands as part of their business plan. As
being an Amateur Radio operator and seeing what happens when the FCC
decides to actually pursue enforcement in a band, I wouldn't want to tie
my continued business survival to illegal equipment. -forrest
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