The W/ISP who inherited our company got a big grant to deploy a hybrid
system involving Tarana. I know nothing of the details, except that the
area is public knowledge.
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On Fri, Oct 4, 2024 at 7:20 AM Jeff Broadwick - Lists <jeffl...@att.net>
wrote:
> It won’t hit everything, but within 10 miles or so, 3GHz goes through a
> ton of foliage and 5 and 6 will generally go through a line of trees.
> Nothing goes through dirt, but Tarana embraces multipath so it’s quite
> possible that you can get a solid connection off of a carom shot (mainly
> off of buildings)…people are doing that all over the place.
>
> The interference mitigation isn’t magic, but it’s freaking close.
>
> We’ve been selling it for 3 years, so I’ve seen quite a few scenarios.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeff
>
> Jeff Broadwick
> CTIconnect
> 312-205-2519 Office
> 574-220-7826 Cell
> jbroadw...@cticonnect.com
>
> On Oct 4, 2024, at 9:43 AM, dmmoff...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>
>
> Jeff,
>
>
>
> I know someone who tested Tarana and he seems convinced that it’s the NLOS
> holy grail that we always wanted. Like what every Wimax and LTE vendor
> promised us and couldn’t deliver. We have a long history in the industry
> which should make us all skeptical of NLOS claims so I’m curious if it’s
> really as great as all that. Any comment, Jeff?
>
>
>
> When we were doing 5ghz canopy, we bracketed our city with a dozen towers
> to give ourselves lots of options and we still had to end up saying “no” to
> half our installs. This is urban/suburban so we’re usually talking about
> one rooftop or one row of trees in the way. At most 100ft of foliage to
> penetrate before you’re in clear skies. 5ghz Canopy would work, but it
> tended to be unreliable in those conditions and we just found it wasn’t
> worth the trouble and the damage to our credibility if we installed it.
> Our Alvarion VL using neighbors always talked up how well their thing
> worked NLOS, but their actual outcomes and my own testing of the product
> told me that it only “works” NLOS within certain definitions of “works”,
> i.e.: you’d have to willing to accept high error rates and low MCS as
> “working”. Anything else built around a WiFi chipset I’d lump in with
> Alvarion.
>
>
>
> 900mhz of course worked within the limits of its bandwidth and high
> interference, and I’d say more or less the same about 2.4ghz.
>
>
>
> Wimax was an incremental improvement because you could get some
> predictable and reliable outcomes NLOS, but your NLOS customers are still
> lowering efficiency of the system due to retransmits and lower MCS, and I
> never saw a Wimax product that wasn’t a total PITA on the management side.
> I bitched endlessly about the Motorola CAP320, but after seeing what some
> other vendors had I think CAP320 might have been the cream of the crop as
> far as operability. LTE was another incremental step up, but at best maybe
> half as good as it was hyped up to be.
>
>
>
> If Tarana makes every install a success then we should give them all of
> our money and be happy to do it, but it absolutely better work.
>
>
>
> -Adam
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Jeff Broadwick - Lists
> *Sent:* Friday, October 04, 2024 8:40 AM
> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Tarana G2
>
>
>
> I can get you any pricing you need.
>
>
>
> My understanding is that the G2 will be dual band, 3 and 6GHz. It will be
> able to use 4x 40MHz channels and still provide all the interference
> mitigation of the G1 with 2x 40MHz channels.
>
>
>
> I’m sure there is more, but that is what I know now.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
> Jeff Broadwick
>
> CTIconnect
>
> 312-205-2519 Office
>
> 574-220-7826 Cell
>
> jbroadw...@cticonnect.com
>
>
>
> On Oct 3, 2024, at 6:43 PM, Dev <d...@logicalwebhost.com> wrote:
>
> I wish Tarana’s price was the actual price, instead of sometimes a ton,
> sometimes a half a ton, sometimes don’t know. That way, I could calculate
> how many decades it would be until each customer would be profitable
> (outside of subsidized builds).
>
>
>
> On Oct 3, 2024, at 3:04 PM, Jason McKemie <
> j.mcke...@veloxinetbroadband.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> The G1 is expensive enough, are people actually deploying these on a large
> scale? The AP is pricey, but not necessarily a deal-breaker - those
> subscriber units though...
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 3, 2024 at 1:21 PM Ken Hohhof <khoh...@kwom.com> wrote:
>
> Osborne Effect refers to one of the most infamous marketing fails of all
> time.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
>
>
>
> Has Tarana done this by announcing the G2 while all they have shipping is
> the G1?
>
>
>
> Or is the G2 so much more expensive that it’s just for window shopping
> anyway? I figure if these are being bought with BEAD money, frugality may
> be out the window.
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