[179074] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 802.11 based WISP hardware
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Fri Mar 27 08:39:34 2015
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From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 07:39:28 -0500
To: Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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I would also caution those considering ubiquiti for anything fixed right now=
. They have a number of unaddressed issues with UNII frequencies and DFS.=20=
Jared Mauch
> On Mar 27, 2015, at 7:33 AM, Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net> wrote:
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> Ken Chipps, there's a name I haven't seen in a while.=20
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> Motorola did sell the Canopy line off to private equity and is now Cambiun=
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> I started with Mikrotik in my WISP and still use them for routers and swit=
ches, but I cannot recommend them for the fixed wireless portion. They haven=
't pursued FCC certification for 5150 - 5350 or 5470 - 5725.=20
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> Mike Hammett=20
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> From: "Kenneth M. Chipps Ph.D." <chipps@chipps.com>=20
> To: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org>=20
> Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 6:40:35 AM=20
> Subject: RE: 802.11 based WISP hardware=20
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> In my experience in the rural areas around DFW most of the smaller operati=
ons, such as I had until recently, used Mikrotik equipment. Around here SkyB=
eam has bought out all of the small and most of the large WISPs. They retire=
d the Mikrotik equipment in favor of Motorola Canopy originally. I was told t=
he Canopy line may have been sold to someone else. I think Cambium.=20
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> The Mikrotik equipment I had at the top of my 96 foot tall tower was rock s=
olid. 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. P=
roper installation makes a big difference no matter what you use.=20
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> Kenneth M. Chipps Ph.D.=20
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> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Jason Lixfeld=20=
> Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 6:00 AM=20
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> Subject: 802.11 based WISP hardware=20
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> Hi all,=20
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> I=E2=80=99m looking to gather some public opinion, links and pointers arou=
nd 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 wh=
o else is out there that folks have used with success. My main areas of inte=
rest 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 ca=
pable 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, int=
ra-SSID captive portals. In a perfect world, an on-board DHCP server would b=
e super handy too. The system should support CAPWAP, but some proprietary al=
ternative is also fine, the usual suite of security protocols per SSID, reli=
able intra-SSID AP roaming algorithms and multi-SSID capable.=20
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> Thanks in advance.=20
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