Im pretty excited about this. Cambium has been outstanding to work with. Between linkplanner, CnMaestro, CnHeat, EPMP, and CnPilot, projects like this are something that a moron like me can fumble through to a clean end product. the only thing non cambium here is some backhauls and mikrotiks.
Theres a guy named Josh Powell out of Peoria, guys amazing to find solutions on networking who has a great ability to dumb things down so a window licker like me can understand it. Josh Luthmans probably tired of answering my facebook questions too But, even though when this project is broken down to its components, its all simple WISPs stuff, Im still pretty proud to have gotten it done. I learned a whole lot https://cdn.cambiumnetworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/COVID-19-Education-Response-04222020.pdf Cambium is amazing, a tiny no account WISP in central Illinois reached out to the degenerates at afmug one night, and Scott Imhoff reaches back the next day. Next thing you know we are keeping continuity for under-served student families. I got to deal with all kinds of cambium folks. they showed me how to use the products more efficiently, Theyre really a solid company, and im no vendor fanboy. The cool thing is we opened this up across our territory to all the school districts. other than PMP load, it will not have a huge amount of impact, since it egresses the school network and flows opposite our normal back-haul traffic in most cases. We are looking to expand this to a permanent program. We did find out the rural homework gap, in our area at least is not huge, one of the districts had already achieved 100 percent access, I cant stop talking them up in our community for that. We got 6 names today, 2 were good for sure, one shows good, but is in a pot i normally wouldnt have considered, 2 are unservicable, but we will drive by and verify and one is in range of one of the school Wifi hotspots. I could go on and on
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