Hungry ones? :)
Josh Reynolds, Chief Information Officer
SPITwSPOTS, www.spitwspots.com <http://www.spitwspots.com>
On 10/05/2014 03:55 PM, Gino Villarini via Af wrote:
What radio needs 150w?
Gino A. Villarini
President
Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp.
www.aeronetpr.com
@aeronetpr
From: "af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com>" <af@afmug.com
<mailto:af@afmug.com>>
Reply-To: "af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com>" <af@afmug.com
<mailto:af@afmug.com>>
Date: Sunday, October 5, 2014 at 7:14 PM
To: "af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com>" <af@afmug.com
<mailto:af@afmug.com>>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] PacketFlux Product Ideas
This is actually in the category of what I'm expending a fair bit of
R&D on right now.
The challenge comes cost. 150watt per port is very expensive to do
when factoring in the DC-DC conversion. 20W is easy. 50W is a bit
harder. 150W gets very expensive quickly.
As a result, I'm thinking somewhat modular, i.e. pick/choose.
I also have to be mindful of the competitors in the space, in that I
want to be different in the right ways. The power
injection/switching space is quite crowded.
-forrest
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Matt Jenkins via Af <af@afmug.com
<mailto:af@afmug.com>> wrote:
Our infrastructure sites look like this:
Shielded Cables -> 8 or 24port shielded patch panel
-> APC PRM24 with WB Surge Modules
-> PoE Injectors
-> Switch / Router
PoE Injectors are attached to a Masterswitch.
<pipe dream>
I know this probably is not feasible but....
What I would REALLY like is an active PoE midspan injector (8/24
gigabit port). Something that does not require a site monitor (has
web/snmp function built in). It takes AC power and can output DC
to each type of device. This device would be software configurable
for power type and has apc masterswitch functionality. It would
need to support up to 150watt per port for WiMAX and Licensed Link
Radios. It would need to support from 12vdc to 56vdc output. If
there was a model that also supported power out to a few (4) AC
outlets I wouldn't even need an APC Masterswitch. The goal is to
replace all those PoE injectors which don't mount in a rack or on
a din rail in a box.
</pipe dream>
Matthew Jenkins
SmarterBroadband
m...@sbbinc.net <mailto:m...@sbbinc.net>
530.272.4000 <tel:530.272.4000>
On 10/05/2014 01:19 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) via Af wrote:
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
