I find that hard to believe. Deploying a managed Ethernet network in any
kind of high rise is not cheap. You are either required to put in
several switches every few floors because of CAT5 distance limitations
or you are required to run fiber everywhere and put in media converters
at the tenant's space. Oh, and you better install a managed Ethernet
switch that is decent or plan a nightmare down the road troubleshooting.
-Matt
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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