There's no unlicensed product which guarantees business class services in interference. To suggest product A does and product B doesn't is nonsense. I think you've done a good job of describing why you think some products do a better job of than others. That's fair. Sharing experiences where one product did better than another is fair. I love reading your posts and others comparing the attributes which impact on this. It's educational and I get insights into equipment that I haven't personally had direct experience. But the constant bashing that some product will guarantee business class services in interference and another won't is tiresome, and just turns people off from the good content that people appreciate.
Rich ----- Original Message ----- From: Brad Belton To: 'WISPA General List' Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 7:26 PM Subject: RE: [WISPA] Alvarion Comnet Radios have arrived Certainly you can do committed rate business class services with unlicensed products. WMUX, Terabridge, Trango just to name a few. Are they interchangeable in application? Nope, they require you use the right product for the job at hand. What may work well on one project may not on the next. Interference typically isn't temporary...at least not around these parts! No, you need to engineer the link with enough forethought and available tools on hand to give yourself options in the event a link does begin to incur interference. In our experience the VL was erratic in its ability to consistently produce the same end result day in and day out. Alvarion, me and the third party client all knew before hand the site was very RF unfriendly. I visited the site personally to run surveys before any gear was deployed. We spent the better part of a month with Alvarion trying to get the VL to produce a consistent level of throughput at any level without success. Just as I began to believe we had it licked we would get another call from the client. The really frustrating part of all this is the throughput would vary depending on just how busy the other gear in the area was. The busiest times of day is when we realized the link really suffered. I felt obligated to share our VL results here because Marlon indicated he was looking for a business class product. VL is not that...at least not in our book. Best, Brad -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Comroe Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 5:35 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Alvarion Comnet Radios have arrived >Products that are best effort [snip product name] >end up making guys like us look bad. I'm confused how can anyone do better than "best effort" in unlicensed spectrum, regardless of manufacturer? >There is nothing worse than installing one day at 6Mbps and the next day >getting a call saying they are getting something less than that. If you have no allowance for even temporary interference, what short of a licensed channel can accomplish that? Rich ----- Original Message ----- From: Brad Belton To: 'WISPA General List' Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 5:17 PM Subject: RE: [WISPA] Alvarion Comnet Radios have arrived If we are in an environment where ANY particular solution will not produce the results we are after then we look at other products. We will not tie our hands to one brand. No reason to. Our business model is different than the next and so on and so on. Yes, CIR is what we sell not MIR. That may be a good thing for us or it may turn out to be a bad thing for us, but that is the level of service we strive to deliver. Products that are best effort like VL end up making guys like us look bad. There is nothing worse than installing one day at 6Mbps and the next day getting a call saying they are getting something less than that. Expectations and end results are everything to us. We meet expectations or we'd rather not do it, part ways amiability and maintain our reputation. It's a small town! Best, Brad -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom DeReggi Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 2:57 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Alvarion Comnet Radios have arrived >The Alvarion VL is great for bursty, best effort requirements where 90% of >the user applications can wait for that clear air within the noise floor, >but not for committed rate business class service. Agreed. But what about when you are in an environment that TDD won't work well? Sometimes the answer is to modify your offering to what the beset thing is that can be delivered. CIR service may need to be changed to MIR. In what cases is CIR really needed? And what areas of your business or network also prevent the CIR Full QOS guarantee from being realized? Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad Belton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'WISPA General List'" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 1:03 PM Subject: RE: [WISPA] Alvarion Comnet Radios have arrived My thoughts exactly. If the VL had a mechanism to "tune out" noise and a few other tools (dual pol - dual band) that would enable the user avoid noise then it is possible there simply would not be a better PtMP LE product available today. Without those critical elements the VL is just not able to perform consistently in RF hostile environments. The Alvarion VL is great for bursty, best effort requirements where 90% of the user applications can wait for that clear air within the noise floor, but not for committed rate business class service. Best, Brad -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 11:46 AM To: WISPA General List 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 (509) 982-2181 Equipment sales (408) 907-6910 (Vonage) Consulting services 42846865 (icq) And I run my own wisp! [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.odessaoffice.com/wireless www.odessaoffice.com/marlon/cam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Leary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----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 To: WISPA General List 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 (509) 982-2181 Equipment sales (408) 907-6910 (Vonage) Consulting services 42846865 (icq) And I run my own wisp! [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.odessaoffice.com/wireless www.odessaoffice.com/marlon/cam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Leary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> 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>> -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ ************************************************************************ ************ This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses(190). ************************************************************************ ************ ************************************************************************ ************ This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses(42). ************************************************************************ ************ **************************************************************************** ******** This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses. **************************************************************************** ******** -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
