[179070] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: 802.11 based WISP hardware
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kenneth M. Chipps Ph.D.)
Fri Mar 27 07:40:37 2015
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From: "Kenneth M. Chipps Ph.D." <chipps@chipps.com>
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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 06:40:35 -0500
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In my experience in the rural areas around DFW most of the smaller =
operations, such as I had until recently, used Mikrotik equipment. =
Around here SkyBeam has bought out all of the small and most of the =
large WISPs. They retired the Mikrotik equipment in favor of Motorola =
Canopy originally. I was told the Canopy line may have been sold to =
someone else. I think Cambium.
The Mikrotik equipment I had at the top of my 96 foot tall tower was =
rock solid. Never a hiccup in years of service in all kinds of weather. =
Of course I did a proper standards based installation including bonding =
and grounding. Proper installation makes a big difference no matter what =
you use.
Kenneth M. Chipps Ph.D.
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From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Jason Lixfeld
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 6:00 AM
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Subject: 802.11 based WISP hardware
Hi all,
I=E2=80=99m looking to gather some public opinion, links and pointers =
around the current landscape of WISP hardware vendors. I=E2=80=99m =
familiar with Cisco, Ruckus, AdTran, Motorola and Aruba (HP) but =
I=E2=80=99m wondering who else is out there that folks have used with =
success. My main areas of interest are around controller based =
(hardware or virtual (in-house, not off-net cloud based)) systems that =
have a range of indoor & outdoor 802.11AC PoE capable APs. The =
controller(s) would be capable of tunnelling traffic from the APs for =
one or more SSIDs, support per-SSID captive portals and unique, =
intra-SSID captive portals. In a perfect world, an on-board DHCP server =
would be super handy too. The system should support CAPWAP, but some =
proprietary alternative is also fine, the usual suite of security =
protocols per SSID, reliable intra-SSID AP roaming algorithms and =
multi-SSID capable.
Thanks in advance.
