I'd say you bandwidth throttle each individual connection ala PPPoE. Your router\bandwidth management device on the tower has many ports for the different radios on that tower.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom DeReggi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 10:47 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Net Equalizer Anyone? > Personally, all I have seen are last generation. What I'd like to know is > which have evolved to tackle the trends of newer network designs. > How many support multiple outbound paths correctly? Are any multi-layer > yet, from the perspective of doing bandwdith management per sector > attached > to it, and in aggregate out the backbone. When networks are build > redundantly or with parallel paths to allow greater scale with links > limited > in capacity individually ("Mesh") it gets complicated for a bandwdith > manager to consider all the factors. Bandwdith manager doesn;t work > without > a bottle neck, and it generally cant be configured accurately if one can;t > define what the outbound speed is, as many designs today ahve variable > available capacity upstream. For example a backbone link used to be a > backbone from other cell sites as well as a shared backbone for the > existing > sectors at the cell. How do you tell how much capcity is being used for > the > other cells versus the local cell? Can it dynamically learn so any > available > bandwdith can be used to its fullest when available? > > First genration bandwdith managers and shappers had a static design where > the bottle neck was the single connection to the Internet backbone which > was > the oversubscription point. And then the front end (last mile) was > intended > to not be over subscribed. This doesn't work for WISPs, where the > oversubscribption point is often the front end connection. > > Any of them smart enough yet? > > Tom DeReggi > RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc > IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sam Tetherow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 9:28 PM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Net Equalizer Anyone? > > >> I'm sure you don't want to turn this into a why you should use X thread, >> but I am curious what you are having problems limiting with the other >> devices you have tried? >> >> Sam Tetherow >> Sandhills Wireless >> >> John Scrivner wrote: >>> I have been considering the Net Equalizer as a possible platform for >>> bandwidth management. I know that topics like this often lead to a >>> myriad of posts about bandwidth management normally. If possible I would >>> like to hear feedback from people who have actually used this one >>> appliance to hear about any advantages or disadvantages to use of this >>> device for managing bandwidth in WISP networks. I appreciate hearing >>> from any past or present users of the Net Equalizer platform. >>> All the best, >>> John Scrivner >>> >>> >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >>> 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 Wants You! Join today! >> 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 Wants You! Join today! > 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 Wants You! Join today! 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/
