[156279] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Big Temporary Networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Josh Baird)
Thu Sep 13 17:29:23 2012
In-Reply-To: <1102047.24578.1347570836477.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:28:30 -0400
From: Josh Baird <joshbaird@gmail.com>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Yes, we backhaul our own bandwidth to it; either using Cambium or Ubiquiti
unlicensed 5Ghz backhauls. Depending on the distance and type of backhaul,
we can get 50-150mbps to the event.
Josh
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Josh Baird" <joshbaird@gmail.com>
>
> > We have been using Unifi (a Ubiquiti WIFI product) for local conventions
> > and festivals. The product is fairly cheap, robust, and their access
> > points have very good range. We have deployed it at several commercial
> > businesses as well with great success. The deployment is very easy. We
> > run the controller on a VM at our NOC, but you can also run it locally
> > at the event as well.
> >
> > Besides this, we have a fairly beefy box that handles DNS and DHCP and
> > basic firewalling.
>
> Have you had to/been able to haul in your own bandwidth to feed it? What
> class? (Real DS3/OC1/OC3, FiOS/HFC, something else?)
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
> --
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