Depends what you mean by Vendor. Manufacturer or Reseller? As a reseller/distributor we built from the ground up a 7,500 subscriber WISP with over 130 tower sites (Mesa Networks located out of Frederick, CO). We only sell gear we have personally used and deployed, and know how it actually performs in the real world.
It has been a year and a half since we sold our WISP, but we are still very active in the field deploying gear for our customers Daniel White 3-dB Networks http://www.3dbnetworks.com >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >Behalf Of John Valenti >Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 9:32 AM >To: WISPA General List >Subject: [WISPA] Vendors eating their dogfood (was Re: Which WiMAX Are >You?) > >This is one of the reasons I like StarOS so much. The developers also >run a WISP in their ski town (about 300 customers a few years ago, I >think) >Much more believable when they said "do it this way and it works", I >could trust them. > >Are there other wireless companies that do this? > > >On Sep 10, 2009, at 11:42 AM, jp wrote: > >> Sidepoint.... Some of the wireless equipment vendors would likely >> create >> a superior product faster if they ran a modest sustainable WISP just >> big >> enough for real world product testing. Too often we see marketing >> photos >> of gear installed outdoors with shiny bare N connectors, indoor >> unshielded cat5 on the pole, etc... > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >-------- >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/
