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.


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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
>>>
>>>
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