I occasionally consult for network deployments in some really weird rural locations, like Afghanistan or Sierra Leone...
Forget FCC certification on gear. There are some places in the world that could really use tvws for extended reach into rural areas off major hilltops, but I will recommend 900MHz 450 radios for. Tvws or 900 and one fat pipe for uplink is far more economical than two dozen individual 1.2meter Tx/Rx vsat terminals. Only one or two OTA TV stations within a 200 km radius, in these places if people have TVs, they get content via free-to-air Ku band cheap TVRO satellite dishes. On Feb 2, 2016 12:57 PM, "Adam Moffett" <[email protected]> wrote: > I remember a few years ago somebody on this list was posting about trying > TVWS and switching it all back to 900mhz because they kept having incidents > where their noise floor would shoot through the roof for hours at a time. > They believed it was a signal from a distant TV station being brought to > them by thermal ducting. I wish I could remember the name. It's the > *only* TV white space deployment I ever heard about. > > On 2/2/2016 3:52 PM, Eric Kuhnke wrote: > > So I've received no emails, guess nobody has any recent real world > deployments or you guys are all in secret squirrel mode. :-) > On Feb 1, 2016 3:20 PM, "Jason McKemie" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> It seems like the regulatory environment around these bands is a little >> shaky. I always figured that was why. >> >> On Monday, February 1, 2016, Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I've wondered why the major fixed wireless players never touched this. >>> >>> Wasn't there supposed to be a SAS that would tell your AP what channels >>> it could use? Did that ever get off the ground? >>> >>> >>> On 2/1/2016 4:54 PM, Eric Kuhnke wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> If you've recently purchased any tvws equipment or received price >>>> quotes from a vendor, please contact me off list... >>>> >>>> It is looking increasingly like I could describe the current state of >>>> equipment available as "half baked prototypes". There has been a lot of >>>> noise and hot air but very little real products that are as mature and >>>> tangible as the cambium 900MHz new 450-serirs gear. >>>> >>>> >>> >
