I will be deploying a few of these this year, I have a few 450aps that need to be upgraded. I don’t think you can ask for anything better, canopy reliability and features, plus as far as I know, no one can do this in a 20mhz channel, not even close.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmc9TR_Shqo From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of George Skorup Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2017 9:22 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 450i medusa The 450m does uplink and downlink beam-steering and MU-MIMO. So it can talk to multiple SMs simultaneously. It's capable of sending different data to 7 SMs in the same frame. I wouldn't bet the farm on 7, but real-world results have shown 3-4 which is a huge improvement over a standard 450/450i sector, especially considering it's the same occupied slice of spectrum. The uplink beam steering will also give a boost to your SM uplink modulations. That price tag though. It's cheaper than some LTE stuff and more expensive than others. But consider that it's roughly the cost of two 450/450i sectors. If you have an installed base of 450/450i SMs (430 SMs not supported), and they're dispersed enough across the 90 degrees (not all within 10-15 degrees in a valley for example) for you to realize the 3x or potentially more performance increase, then it's probably a good solution. Don't overlook ePMP if you're rolling out green and want to keep costs down. It sure ain't no Medusa, but it gives decent performance for the price. An ePMP 2000 AP is roughly 1/10th the cost of a 450m. And you can add the uplink beam-steering "Smart Antenna" to the 2k. We have a few deployed on top of some FSK micro-POPs and we're seeing about 85Mbps aggregate. We have about 10% of the customers moved off of the FSK so far and it's doing great. On 3/12/2017 5:39 PM, Chuck McCown wrote: I have always been a Canopy guy. But I realize there are plenty of other companies out there that also have good engineering talent. I don’t want to ignore any system but I do trust Canopy/Cambium. From: Mathew Howard Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2017 4:37 PM To: af Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 450i medusa There are other systems that should be able to get more bandwidth to a single customer, or even a few customers, but in terms of the overall bandwidth to as many customers as possible, I don't think anything comes close to the Medusa. That's not to say that it's necessarily the best system for any given situation, but if the goal is lots of 15ish meg customers, and quality is more important than cost, it's probably the way to go... but I haven't ever operated one either. On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 1:43 PM, <ch...@wbmfg.com<mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com>> wrote: I will know more after my meeting in a couple weeks in Miami. I am currently under the impression that it is giving the largest number of people a decent level of service. I don’t know what they consider decent. To me anything over 15 Mbps is gravy. From: Gino Villarini Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2017 12:41 PM To: af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 450i medusa Whats the end game? Top throughput on 1 customer or top throughput on max clients? From: Af <af-boun...@afmug.com<mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com>> on behalf of Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com<mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com>> Reply-To: "af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com>" <af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com>> Date: Sunday, March 12, 2017 at 2:22 PM To: "af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com>" <af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com>> Subject: [AFMUG] 450i medusa I am still working on a system for Haiti. Will be visiting with them later in the month. I believe the 450 medusa system is the best recommendation as to number of higher bandwidth customers per AP. But I have never operated one. And I know there are other vendors attempting to take prize for highest speeds and throughput on a PMP system. Is there a better system? How heavy can you load this system? Gino Villarini President Metro Office Park #18 Suite 304 Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968 [cid:image001.png@01D29C05.20AEC5A0]
