LOL,
Yeah, I read that Patrick. Guess I'll have to see it to actually understand
it fully.
I think of it more like talking in a crowded room. The background noise
makes it hard to talk. We can make up for that in several ways.
One, what we usually do today, everyone keeps their voices down (max of 4
watts :-), we cup our hands over our ears (directionalizing our antennas),
and when someone beside us is talking, we wait for them to stop before we
start.
Well, all it takes is one jerk in the room to start talking a little louder,
then everyone around him has to crank up the volume. It keeps going till
everyone is talking as loudly as they can. Then we've moved from the dining
room to the bar room :-).
Once in the bar room the old tricks just don't work as well as they used to.
We can adjust to our little heart's content, but in the end, we just move to
the talk when we want to talk model.
I actually watched that with some amusement last week. Had a group of 7 or
8 people around a table in a back room. All drinking beer and eating pizza.
The guys were talking about elk hunting and the gals were talking about some
inane topic that I didn't pay attention to. grin It was funny. each group
was talking clear across the table, each with it's own topics and each just
talking over the other. Me, I was stuck in the middle of it and I couldn't
track either conversation worth a hoot! I caught a little here and a little
there, from both sides.
I'd have happily downgraded to the ability to track at least one
conversation correctly :-).
Not picking on the product or the methodology. I'm just tossing some ideas
against the wall to see what'll stick. If some of my ideas prove valuable,
use them. If not, forget them! grin
Marlon
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Leary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 10:00 AM
Subject: RE: [WISPA] Alvarion Comnet Radios have arrived
This is my point Marlon, your "beef" is based on erroneous assumptions
because you are still are talking like it is a basic "wifi" radio. It is
not. Have you not read any of the posts about how the CSAM is able to be
modified or adjustable? As I have said and I'll try to say it again, you
can adjust many ways. The mechanism you are used with all your low end
stuff to leaves you entirely at the mercy of others...you have no
ability to make adjustments. With VL you do. Polling in VL would BE A
DOWNGRADE.
Patrick Leary
AVP WISP Markets
Alvarion, Inc.
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Behalf Of Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181
Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 9:46 AM
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Subject: Re: [WISPA] Alvarion Comnet Radios have arrived
Got it. Thanks.
I guess my "beef" comes from being a wifi based wisp. I find it too
difficult to reject interference with a csma based product. Anything
with a
"wait for clear air, then transmit" MAC is GREAT for collocation. But
sucks
when there are products around that don't follow that mechanism. That's
(my
personal belief) why Canopy went with it's GPS sync. It doesn't care
who's
already out there, when it's time to transmit it does. Trango does that
to,
just without sync'ing the AP's.
My REAL world experience so far is that csmak (or csma/ca, or whatever
collision avoidance scheme you want to use) is GREAT where there aren't
many
other systems within ear shot of the radios. However, when there are
other
devices in the area, especially those that don't have a collision
avoidance
mechanism, the csma radio will pay a heavy price in performance.
Having used both csma and polling products, I'm not putting in any wifi
type
products at 5 gig. All of our next gen products will be polling as long
as
we can keep things that way.
These days, I'm learning to sacrifice raw performance for reliability
and
uptime. There's a balance, sure, but getting that last 10 to 20% out of
a
product is less important to me than having a product that can survive
some
of the games that my less scrupulous competitors play.
However, with EITHER technology choice, it's critical to design a
network
that can, and does, physically (antenna choice and ap locations)
isolates
your system as well as you possibly can. That seems to be the type of
trick
that just can't be taught. Your network designer either gets it or he
doesn't. Heck, I've even done consulting gigs where I looked a guy
right in
the eye and gave them several choices for site locations. Only to have
them
pick something completely different, and sometimes unworkable.
80 to 90% of people's problems with wireless are self inflicted.
Either
outright or in a lack of forethought manner.
Here's an idea for you Patrick. Make this product work both ways. Give
it
the option to be either csma or some fancy new version of token ring.
Then
we could optimize performance for any environment that we find ourselves
in.
Oh yeah, I remember the big hubbub about GPS in the BreezeACCESS II
line.
Why was it important for collocation then but not now?
Hope you guys all had a great Christmas!
Marlon
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Leary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 9:26 AM
Subject: RE: [WISPA] Alvarion Comnet Radios have arrived
I'd never call you a neophyte, Marlon. A jolly elf maybe, neophyte
never...
CSMA/CA. But the MAC has been substantially altered, especially with 4.0
and the WLP (wireless link prioritization) feature where all stations
can be made to wait while those stations with spooled up voice can
release their packets regardless of where they are in the cell. Also, in
VL an operator can adjust numerous values of the CSMA/CA, such as
contention window duration, contention levels, etc. It is more
sophisticated than your basic polling and more efficient.
Patrick Leary
AVP WISP Markets
Alvarion, Inc.
o: 650.314.2628
c: 760.580.0080
Vonage: 650.641.1243
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181
Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 9:13 AM
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Subject: Re: [WISPA] Alvarion Comnet Radios have arrived
Got that part. I still didn't see in there anywhere, in plain English
that
a neophyte like me can understand, is this a polling or csmak product?
Marlon
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www.odessaoffice.com/marlon/cam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Leary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 1:54 PM
Subject: RE: [WISPA] Alvarion Comnet Radios have arrived
Marlon, I'll answer this with a re-post of a September post that
explains, in part, why VL is not just regular CSMA:
<<trim>>
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