A low-cost, fast-install, indoor wireless mesh network used to provide
commercial-grade service to businesses in the building? Now that's a
scary, scary concept. The Mikrotik MUM presenter better plan on banning
all in-building microwave oven use and cordless telephone use and
unauthorized wireless access point use, and bluetooth use and God-knows
what-else-use.
On the other hand, if WISPs do start deploying lots of in-building
wireless mesh (wireless mess) networks, it could generate a lot of
interference-troubleshooting business for me when those networks fail
and need to be redesigned.
I'm not saying don't deploy wireless mesh networks; I'm just saying
choose the right tool for the job. Sure I can use a ballpoint pen to
open a can of beans but I'm going to break the pen plus get ink in the
beans. Cat5, fiber, or even BPL seem far more appropriate
building-wiring technologies than wireless mesh for any commercial-grade
Internet service.
jack
Doug Ratcliffe wrote:
This is not my original experience, but a presenter at the Mikrotik User
Meeting mentioned that a whole-building Motorola's powerline solution is
more expensive per unit than wiring Cat5. And both are more expensive than
say using a wireless mesh network. Both takes much less time to install
than cat5, and is easier to hook up one unit at a time.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Matt Liotta
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 9:51 AM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: [WISPA] Motorola BPL
Anyone have experience with Motorola BPL deployed with Canopy? The
information from Motorola would have us believe that the technology is
relatively cheap and easy to deploy. Is it?
In our case, we are increasingly finding projects where we backhaul a
building and then need to put in an Ethernet network to service multiple
tenants. If we would replace the Ethernet network with BPL it may prove
easier to deploy, cheaper, and most importantly better to manage since
each tenant would have an integrated CPE as opposed to just a port on a
switch.
-Matt
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