[72639] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Campus size Wireless LAN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curtis Maurand)
Wed Jul 21 17:56:04 2004
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:50:05 -0400
From: Curtis Maurand <curtis@maurand.com>
To: Brandon Pinsky <bjp@columbia.edu>
Cc: Eric Brown <ebrown@simstar.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <024A163A-DB51-11D8-B973-000A95D15116@columbia.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Brandon Pinsky wrote:
>
>
> I just installed a Quickbridge 60 recently. It's pretty nice. The
> throughput is good over a .75 mile link. I was able to successfully
> push ~20Mbps with an iperf test. Installation was easy relative to
> some of the other equipment we have installed. The feed line is UTP
> and the radio gets power over the UTP cable. The uplink interface is
> 100BaseT which is easy. My only complaint is that it is not remotely
> manageable. You have to have direct console to make any config
> changes which means taking the link down. We have another .11a system
> in production made by RadioLan and it is plagued by the same design
> flaw. Stupid... I'd like to compare it to the Cisco one. I bet it is
> more manageable.
>
> BJ
>
> On Jul 21, 2004, at 2:01 PM, Eric Brown wrote:
>
>>
>> Anyone have experience with Proxim's tsunami quickbridge for wireless
>> connectivity between buildings at line of site distances under 1 mile?
>> It's cheaper than Cisco and looks good on paper. Looking for the good
>> bad and ugly. Thanks in advance!
>>
>> -Eric
>
>
check http://www.alvarion.com
Curtis
