Once again, your deployment is non standard Adam. The way your sectors
are configured the NLOS won't rock your world. We've all known that
for a long time; that was the choice you guys made.
*Patrick Leary*
***M*727.501.3735
<http://mkt2.us/TelrdNet>
*From:*Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Adam Moffett
*Sent:* Wednesday, March 04, 2015 3:55 AM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] New feedback
There are also various ways to measure "working". The way WiMax
"works" NLOS does not rock my world. I hope LTE does.
Population density is very low in some rural areas. New
construction has been pretty much nada, with the housing bust and
wind farms, no new subdivisions, no farmettes. The only houses
are where farmhouses or 1 room schoolhouses used to stand.
Then factor in you just can’t achieve 100% market share. No
matter how good your service and price, some of the available
subscribers will instead go with WISP competitors, DSL, satellite,
mobile hotspot, or “I don’t need one of those newfangled computer
thingies”.
So sometimes you’re doing good to get 15 subs.
Of course if you can double your range, you may quadruple the
available market.
Someone on the list posted a few days back about not going through
granite. I assume even LTE can’t do that however.
*From:*Patrick Leary <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:*Tuesday, March 03, 2015 7:41 PM
*To:*[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:*Re: [AFMUG] New feedback
Alvarion did that. I admit, I'm not a fan of capping Glen. It is a
gimmick. The hardware is what it is, and this hardware is
expensive. 30dBm per port. 4 tx/4rx. Power is expensive. The
highest quality DSPs on the market. not consumer grade stuff with
the sensitivity of your in home Wi-Fi router. We build our own phy
from the ground up too, our own ATPC algorithms too.
On the software, we do that though -- enabling modularity and
scale as you need to. I think I need to do a dedicated webinar to
this community to walk you guys (or those inclined) through it
(any takers?). I do not think we can be a solution that makes
sense where you only have 15 clients. That's the blunt truth.
Unless you are doing 50 Mbps customers, I am not your micropop
(but I can do that in some modest scale). That said, I wonder
where that 15 number comes from? Can you please explain on what
architecture that is based? Range? Height? Etc. If it is based on
a micropop and even then on what just that pop can see, I'd say
that's likely a model invented out of necessity due to the poor
performance of the system you are using.
I had a guy on a call today. He zoomed me in on Google Earth to
his "NLOS" area. Farmland with wind breaks and shade trees for the
homes. He is at 400' and can't connect squat behind those breaks.
In my world, that's LOS all the way, even at 150 ft. It is total
garbage that so many systems to can't deal with that and you've
all been fed that that is "normal." It is not. It is just gear
with terrible specs where the only R&D is at the software level,
and even that is scant. ....You do not have NLOS problems. You
have equipment problems. How such a product ever was allowed to go
to market as a "solution" for rural broadband is, to me, cynical
and reflective of playing a market to skim opportunistic dollars
from a market segment that sometimes seems to embrace abuse. Sort
of like the poor 700 MHz owners who got sucked in to buying 20
year old Marconi WipLL repackaged as a 700 MHz "solution" because
all there was to buy. Then vendors do that crap and THEN, THEN
tell you there's no backward compatibility when they come out with
something new?
WISPs. Sometimes you guys drive me nuts. You are like cheerleaders
that love to date the quarterbacks who abuse you. That is like
selling a car that falls apart once you leave residential streets.
None of you should ever have accepted these golf carts to run your
fleets. Sometimes, cheap is just cheap.
Boy, I'm gonna hear it from my vendor peers, but this ain't a game
or just a job for me. I damn sure hope it ain't that for you either.
*Patrick Leary*
*M*727.501.3735
<http://mkt2.us/TelrdNet>
*From:*Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Glen Waldrop
*Sent:* Tuesday, March 03, 2015 8:08 PM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] New feedback
Sort of off topic, but what would be the smallest AP we could get?
I'm thinking about using this system on a few of my towers to make
sure we never leave without a new customer, but I serve a very
rural area.
I have some towers with 15 clients.
Is an omni + GPS sync or narrow channel out of the question?
----- Original Message -----
*From:*Patrick Leary <mailto:[email protected]>
*To:*[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ; [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:*Tuesday, March 03, 2015 4:42 PM
*Subject:*[AFMUG] New feedback
This is an interesting bit of commentary from one of our new
customers. If he wishes to identify himself, he will....
*Patrick Leary*
*M*727.501.3735
<http://mkt2.us/TelrdNet>
*From:*
*Sent:*Tuesday, March 03, 2015 2:31 AM
*To:* Patrick Leary; Nick Dewar
*Subject:* Interesting Statistic
"Patrick / Nick –
Our Director of Operations, which you both met in St Louis,
sent out an interesting email to our staff this evening. In
February with only 20 working days we completed 40 installs
with one technician... This is only icing on the cake,
especially since we are onboarding two more techs... I ran
some additional numbers and found that out of the “Telrad”
installations that we scheduled, 100 % were successful both of
these months. This is a game changer, and it proves that we
can eliminate the need to waste further time with the dreaded
site surveys. Our success is not without the help of Telrad’s
Compact solution. Truly amazing and inspiring, excited for
our aggressive expansion this spring/summer/fall. I cannot
wait to have hundreds of these damn things in the air.
Excited and thankful to be a part of the LTE Beta, and am
thankful for the “Holy Grail” email that introduced us to the
product...."
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