Good Morning Everyone and Happy Wednesday! Have any of you had the opportunity to use Xirrus wifi equipment? Specifically I'm trying to determine if it would be a good fit for some of the areas we're looking at covering.
The areas are defined mostly like this: Town A ---- Town B ---- Town C ---- Town D ---- Town E ---- Town F Either Town A or Town F will have 100 Mbps circuit to the carrier (Pop) There is anywhere from seven to fifteen miles between each of the towns. All towns have less than 100 families; some less than 50. I will have wireless PtP back hauls between all the towns. Each structure holding my PtP radios (as well as the AP(s)) for the towns is 80 to 200 feet tall, averaging about 100 feet. Where I don't have LOS between two towns, I have intermediate structures at my disposal to backhaul around or over obstructions. To me this is a perfect scenario for Nanobeams for the PtP links and CPEs, and Rockets with either a couple sectors or even an omni in the smallest of these towns. A vendor who was demo'ing PureWave solutions before I moved into this position is now wanting to demo Xirrus wifi solutions for us. Based on my understanding of how this product works, in my example above we'd require (at least) one AP (or base station as I think they are called in Xirrus Land) in each of the six towns (along with separate PtP back hauls between the six towns...unless the Xirrus APs/Base stations negate the use of PtP back hauls for this layout...? <Sam's Assumption> Having never seen Xirrus products, nor knowing what these units cost, it's my guess that the initial investment in equipment (just for the infrastructure - not to mention the client CPE) would be many times that of a Ubiquiti solution without much (if anything) to gain by using the more-expensive equipment. From the little bit of pricing information I was able to find online, while less-expensive than Purewave, the Xirrus stuff still seems pretty high - especially for rolling out into a town of 35 families. (And yes I'm all-too-familiar with what frequently happens when one assumes....) :) </Sam's Assumption> Have any of you used Xirrus wifi? If you had areas like described above, is Xirrus wifi something you would consider? Thank you all so much, Sam _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
