Er, apologies for the short burst of gibberish in there re:
multihop....heck, if it's good enough for Pres. Bush... :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Norm Young" <lists@applegatebroadband.net>
To: "Karlnet Mailing List" <karlnet@WISPNotes.com>
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 2:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Karlnet] Terabeam-Hope and input
Here's a letter I sent today to Mr. Fitzgerald:
Hi Robert,
Appreciate your efforts to communicate with us Karlnet WISPs about the
future of Turbocell. I like your approach, but would like to share some
thoughts with you.
I've found the KN-50/Wincomm 19dB panel assembly to be a real competitive
advantage. If I could deploy a/g Karlnet CPE solutions in that price
range ($250-400), it would be an absolute home run. I'm hoping that your
new generation of boards (utilizing I'm assuming the Atheros a/b/g radios)
can fulfill this role. It would also be nice if these boards supported
NAT. It's a pain to have to keep watch on all these customer routers, in
that the KN-50 is only a bridge. The other big thing is bandwidth
control. Currently, it's symmetrical. Most of my network is residential,
who get asymmetrical service, so that means I must have a Mikrotik or
StarOS router involved somewhere in the network, preferably as close as
possible to the point of use (usually one hop away) to do, if nothing
else, bandwidth control. (However the flexibility of that software allows
for so much more...)
I have been rolling out some experimental microPOPs using StarOS/WRAP
boards using the Atheros a/b/g radios to service small residential
markets. The future in my network, now that the superWIPOP's have
covered the large markets is smaller markets (often residential), and an
approach towards smaller cell sizes in areas already covered to scale up
bandwidth to the customer. Because our terrain is complex, these
repeaters may be several repeaters in from the superWIPOP, fed at the
head-end (currently) by Trango 5.8 PtMP radios, and because of the
multihop configuration need to support the routing flexibility offered by
StarOS and Mikrotik. If I could do this with Karlnet, I'd be happier in
that I don't have to support so many different hardware/software
configurations, I don't have to worry about having too many clients per AP
for 802.11x, AND most importantly I've got a stable, cost effective,
standard CPE.
I would also like to see some more flexibility/innovation in the router
side of things, as this is what is attracting me to Mikrotik/StarOS (we
have a MT router collocated on our mountain-top SuperWIPOP with Karlnet
and Trango PtMP radios, MT 5.8 backhaul, and scattered throughout our
network as routers). Perhaps a licensing deal where Karlnet Turbocell
protocol could be used with Mikrotik or StarOS? (It would sell one heck
of a lot of Karlnet CPEs!) Right now, this is the weakness of the
Mikrotik and StarOS approach, not to mention scalability. Their router
software, however, with all due respect, absolutely blows Karlnet away.
Combine the two, and wow.
Norm
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dzevad Hadzic" <zex@zex.biz>
To: "'Karlnet Mailing List'" <karlnet@WISPNotes.com>
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 1:56 PM
Subject: RE: [Karlnet] Terabeam-WISP list response
Well seems to me that last letter from Robert Fitzgerald CEO terabeam
give
us all some hope about future of our favorite products and now some of us
are instead being grateful and patient asking for new features in our
favorit equipment :)
-----Original Message-----
From: cj [mailto:cj@cpvegas.com]
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 9:59 PM
To: karlnet@WISPNotes.com
Subject: [Karlnet] Terabeam-WISP list response
When is 4.46 gonna be released? i've heard it promised to be released
for
months now.
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