Butch, On the airspan thing I would agree on the pricing is a bit more reasonable. On their unlicensed product, it still seems quite a bit expensive. ( wipll and wimax ) . The thing we found in testing waveIP is while it is a decent Amount of throughput, the channel size is a nightmare and brings to mind Scaleablity issues.
With airspan in 700, a single base station can support around 400 customers @ 1mb/s, because the channel size is only 1.33mhz. Still its a hopper so Frequency reuse is limited. - Jeff On 5/24/06 7:02 PM, "Butch Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 23 May 2006, jeffrey thomas wrote: > >> Actually, on the Ap Side Airspan is around 5000.00 and 400 or so >> for the CPE. > > It was about a year ago that I got pricing on these. This is a much > more competitive price model than what I was quoted back then. At > that price, they would be a viable option for certain business > models. The only drawback to them is the bandwidth (4.5 Mbps air > rate). Their MAC allows for several users to share this bandwidth > fairly, however. Airspan is a pretty good choice in this market. > > To be fair, I think the WaveIP product performed reasonably well in > our testing, too. There's a little more bandwidth available over > the air (I think it is 9Mbps) and there is an option for a full > duplex link with this gear. In our testing, we had significant > issues with WaveIP early on, but once the problem was found (that's > a story for another time), the gear performed very well. At least > that's what I am told. The problem was found and resolved after I > left BPS, so I never got 100% of the details of the final analysis. > I'd not hesitate to recommend this gear either. > > The only real drawback to either of these (and very likely others in > this market) is that the NMS for both of them (this includes the > configuration utilities) requires Windows. For a network that does > not use any Windows servers (I would assume all the GOOD networks > are in this boat :-), this would require a dedicated server just to > configure your gear. My requests for a telnet or http interface > fell on deaf ears (for both of them). SIGH. -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
