Hmm.. your first suggestion sounds oddly familar. Some of the next two are in the works. Nothing ready to announce in this public of forum. But think tower-side control. And more i/o types.
The last four... well, now those would be popular, wouldn't they? On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Chuck McCown via Af <af@afmug.com> wrote: > How about an all-in-one tower device which includes some mixture of ac > power supply, dc-dc conversion, battery charging/management, Ethernet > switch, router, power injection with fiber conversion. > > Seriously, I would think that if you adopted some of features RMS has > that you do not have it could help. > > Perhaps a watchdog feature the cycles the power to the AP if it cannot > ping google for 15 minutes. I dunno, just brainstorming a bit. I > personally always want more telemetry, more voltage inputs. More > isolation on the voltage inputs. > > Solar charge controller built into some of your other stuff? > > Competitor jammer. > Pan tilt rifle remote. > Active denial transmitter. > AP seeking missile launcher. > > *From:* Forrest Christian (List Account) via Af <af@afmug.com> > *Sent:* Sunday, October 05, 2014 2:19 PM > *To:* af <af@afmug.com> > *Subject:* [AFMUG] PacketFlux Product Ideas > > It's been (quite) a while since I sent one of these messages out to the > list. > > With the release of all of our new gigabit injectors, it is time for me to > decide which products will be next out the door at PacketFlux. > > We've got several products at various stages of completion, but almost all > of them I expect to be very low volume projects - the type of products we > complete just because they help fill out our product offering instead of > expecting a lot of revenue from them. A couple of these have appeared on > the website recently - I.E. a 2 Relay, 3 Switch module, and the > voltmeter/shunt input modules. > > So, what I'd love to hear is some suggestions for products PacketFlux > could build which would help you in your WISP. I'm particularly looking > for products which if they existed would go at every one of your tower > sites, or even better at every customer location. I know these product > ideas exist out there, and I'd love to hear them. Feel free to throw > ideas out which are outside of the narrow niche that you think of > PacketFlux fitting into. > > One final note - there is always a query for an all-in-one tower device > which includes some mixture of ac power supply, dc-dc conversion, battery > charging/management, Ethernet switch, router, power injection, fiber > conversion, etc.. I've heard those loud and clear and am aware of that > desire. There's work being done in-house toward something like that, but > there are many hurdles left to make it a reality. If there's a simplified > version of this which would fit a specific, widespread, need I'd love to > hear about it, but the idea of a device you put into your rack and it > handles everything needed at a tower site is still quite a ways off for us. > > So, throw your best ideas out there... I'd love to take a couple and run > with them. > > -forrest > > > > >
