BelAir did the same thing, but they did it the right way technically, separate radios in every direction. Motorola did it the wrong way at ½ the price and introduced the 1/n problem with a single radio. Tropos had the best mesh mobile solution and it worked great. Aruba has a great mobile solution also up to about 40mph though, just not the cheapest. None of them had any reasonable throughput though over multiple hops, especially with the 1/N issue. When we tested the BelAir, the best we could get through it was about 17Mbps TCP/IP versus SkyPilot at 12Mbps but the BelAir could hop. The biggest problem for all of them is they priced themselves out of the market.
The most cost effective solution today is any vendor with a Peplink mobile router in the car with dual radios talking to the cheapest APs you can get up on the poles. It can look ahead and connect before dropping the previous connection. Rocket M2’s with omni’s work pretty well. rory From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Chuck McCown Sent: Monday, March 2, 2015 10:09 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Aruba Networks? Remember that R2D2 barrel looking thing that Motorola was trying to launch for mobile mesh? What a bunch of hype. Did anyone ever succeed in good mobile mesh? From: Rory Conaway<mailto:r...@triadwireless.net> Sent: Monday, March 02, 2015 10:07 AM To: af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Aruba Networks? Aruba had the best routing protocols for mesh deployments that I’d seen. There was definitely value in that. They were the only ones that seemed to have done that versus the different limited mesh protocols others had in place. rory From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: Monday, March 2, 2015 9:57 AM To: af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Aruba Networks? Their fans get hard ons over them. Xirrus, Ruckus, UniFi. That's all you really need. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com [http://www.ics-il.com/images/fbicon.png]<https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/googleicon.png]<https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/linkedinicon.png]<https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/twittericon.png]<https://twitter.com/ICSIL> ________________________________ From: "Chuck McCown" <ch...@wbmfg.com<mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com>> To: af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com> Sent: Monday, March 2, 2015 10:55:56 AM Subject: [AFMUG] Aruba Networks? I see HP bought them. Never heard of them. I would have thought that if they were any good this crowd would have been talking about this at some time or other.
