Looks good! The more I read of their info, the more intrigued I am. I have a lot of experience with big networks using Tropos mesh and this seems like some interesting competition. Isn't a Pronghorn a kind of sheep?
Their "Computing Device" statement: http://www.adiengineering.com/products/data/Pronghorn_Metro_FCC_DoC_Report.p df If anyone is curious about the testing for computing devices, the procedure, including photos, that was used to test this piece of equipment is at the following URL: http://www.adiengineering.com/products/data/Pronghorn_Metro_FCC_DoC_Report.p df In this document http://www.adiengineering.com/products/data/Pronghorn_Metro_Product_Brief.pd f They say "FCC certified - Even customers choosing to build their own Pronghorn Metro INNs using RoamAD's Hardware Assembly Guide are covered by ADI's certification." There you go... for all the build it yourselfers. Down on about page 6 of this document: http://www.roamad.com/roamad/files/RoamAD_Converged_Wireless_Solution_WNP1.5 v2006.pdf is a nice picture of the board with 4 PCI radios plugged in. There is another good picture further down showing the board and radios in a case. And not to get caught like Linksys did by not posting their Linux sources, they put them here: ftp://ftp.adiengineering.com/Archive/ I delved into this and it is amazing how much data is there. There is even a howto on compiling it yourself. Ralph -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of George Rogato Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 9:07 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] hotspot Ralph wrote: > Hi Clint- > > There's another certification involved. Not just Part 15 for intentional > radiators, which is what the radio cards have to follow. The one I am > talking about is a different part of Part 15: Computing Devices. The one > where things are classified as Class A or B computing devices. Mikrotik > hasn't even had their boards tested or certified under this part. Maybe > they have a loophole in that they don't actually sell it in a case. But > whoever puts it in that case needs to have it tested if they are selling it. Your on the money Ralph. Fact is the software people have not been taking certification into consideration. Nobody has been doing anything about this. So they don't have any reason to. I think that times are changing and I'm pretty certain we will start to see certification happening more often. Some of the newer boards hitting the streets, ie: http://www.adiengineering.com/php-bin/ecomm4/productDisplay.php?category_id= 31&product_id=81 have been noise certified and the other good news is, some of the cards are being certified. Soon enough we'll see products coming from various resellers that are certified. We are slowly moving forward. -- George Rogato Welcome to WISPA www.wispa.org http://signup.wispa.org/ -- 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/
