I have not had a chance to get field experience with the Canopy 430. I have a few areas I would like to use it, but am afraid to destroy the frequency of some of my other 5Ghz backhauls.
Regards, Chuck Hogg Shelby Broadband 502-722-9292 ch...@shelbybb.com http://www.shelbybb.com -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Faisal Imtiaz Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:17 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubnt vs Moto vs ... your brand Hi Chuck, Do you have any field review/ deployment info comparison of the new Canopy 430 ? I would love to hear some comparison info.. Thanks Faisal. On 4/13/2010 10:06 PM, Chuck Hogg wrote: > This is what I am in the process of doing now. We have another 200 > subs to be converted next month. Then another 100 subs after that. > Not only is it a multiple truck roll incident, but I already paid for > the MikroTik gear...and now am replacing customer equipment with Canopy. > ROI just got extended an additional 6 months. We just replaced a > complete Trango 900 AP with Canopy 900. Performance is just better > and it scales. > > Regards, > Chuck Hogg > Shelby Broadband > 502-722-9292 > ch...@shelbybb.com > http://www.shelbybb.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] > On Behalf Of Travis Johnson > Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 9:24 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubnt vs Moto vs ... your brand > > Hi, > > Let's keep it simple and easy. With Canopy your system can scale > infinitely (due to GPS sync) and latency is always very low and > consistent (less than 10ms). With UBNT, you can build a system much > cheaper, and one that will probably work in a small, rural area. > However, it does not scale. > > So, the question you have to ask is: Will your network ever grow to > the size that you run out of channels? On a single tower, there are > roughly six legal channels in the 5.8ghz band (using 20mhz channel > size). None of the other channels are legal with UBNT gear. So you > have 6 channels to use for your entire network, and you can't > co-locate near adjacent channels, and you can't have two AP's on > different towers facing each other on the same channel. > > The problem we made on our network was trying to use Mikrotik for PtMP > deployments and discovering that it doesn't scale. We ended up having > to go to every customer we had installed on two big towers and change > them out to Canopy. So we had to roll a truck twice. :( > > Travis > Microserv > > > Glenn Kelley wrote: > >> In trying to make the right buying decision - some simple answers may >> help. >> >> >> >> 1. What is the meantime failure rate for your ubiquity equipment >> >> 2. What is the avg amount of truck rolls per week you run to fix an >> issue vs the # of customers you have? >> ie- if you have say 1500 clients and do 8 troubleshooting calls a >> week >> > >> then it would be 1500/8 = .0053% ) >> >> 3. how often does a tech call come in (w/o a truck roll) that is >> equipment related... For some reason I think some of the ubiquity >> radios just need a power cycle and voila - they behave much better... >> so - what is the average # of calls per total clients that come in >> that are fixed w/ simple methods vs a truck roll for the ubiquity >> users ... >> >> >> >> Moto Users - do you have this info as well: >> >> Reason I ask is because I am wondering - if the cost of Moto is >> actually worth it... as a smaller operator - this information would >> be most beneficial for sure. >> >> Buying a Moto radio - even if 2 or 3 times the $$ if - the service >> calls on the back side are much less - might be worth it. >> >> Perhaps the cost of Radio vs People (both in manpower as well as >> client satisfaction for uptime) make the buying decision much >> easier... but having some numbers to go along with this would be >> > great. > >> >> Thanks >> >> >> >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > -------- > >> WISPA Wants You! 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