Speaking for myself here, I don’t really make money by building commodity
items.
Switches are so low cost, integrating it into the system would be preferable
than spinning one from the ground up. Not only do you have a chip set that is
arguably somewhat obsolete as soon as it is released but then you have a whole
layer of software to support.
A switch would certainly be easier in both respects since it is pretty much a
canned solution from the ap note on up, but unless it makes me a bunch of
money, I know my time is better spent trying to come up with novel solutions
that do not currently exist.
From: Forrest Christian (List Account)
Sent: Friday, February 2, 2018 4:54 AM
To: af
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] [WISPA Members] 450m power
I have a preference for a switch that works.
My challenge has always been to find a chipset I trust which is fairly easy to
integrate, is obtainable, and is available in industrial temperature range.
Over the years I've looked at numerous chipsets and have never found any that I
would feel comfortable to provide to my customers.
The industrial temperature range issue was probably the biggest one since the
vast majority of chipsets are only available in commercial range and I refuse
to ship a product which contains chipset only rated down to freezing (there's a
reason why we've never had any temperature related failures that we can
recall). Of the remaining chipsets, many of the manufacturers only sell to
large-volume consumers. They have no interest in doing business with an
organization which doesn't do a million units of a product.
Well the never part was true until recently. A trusted vendor of mine
recently released a switch chipset with 5 Gigabit copper ports, 1 GBIC port,
and 1 management port, and which seems to be able to be integrated well. I
need to spend some time with the eval board which is sitting here, but other
things have taken priority.
Over the last couple of months, we've pretty much finished all of the pending
projects, and so I'm working on figuring out which of the partially started
projects around here I need to pick up and run with. There are some which are
minimal work which will likely get done soon (i.e. producing medusa-compatible
cambium sync products in various other form factors, and finishing a couple of
i/o board which are basically done).
Of the rest, part of what I'm going to be listening to at WISPAMERICA is what
people are needing. I really don't want to build things people don't want, so
I'm going to be listening as to what people are looking for. I've got lots of
ideas, just not sure how many of them are really of interest.
On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 12:52 AM, TJ Trout <t...@voltbb.com> wrote:
Forrest,
It would be awesome if you could ever develop products with switches inside,
I know you have a (Cisco?) preference but other's dont.
I would have purchased lots. I hate that I have to use a separate switch so
we moved away from packetflux for new deployments.
TJ
On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 11:48 AM, Forrest Christian (List Account)
<li...@packetflux.com> wrote:
I'm assuming you mean includes switch+poe.
I'm in the process of working on something specificaly for the 450i/450m
with 5 ports and sync hardware all in one box (+1 SFP port), mainly designed
for tower top mounting. Not far enough along to say when it will ship, or
even if it's ever going to see the light of day.
Any other solution you look at, you should make sure that whatever solution
you find will support at least 70W per port, and all 4 pairs. Neither the 450i
or 450m really care about polarity, unless you're doing sync, and then only on
the 450i since the 450m does the new cambium sync only.
If you can live with separate poe box, of course the packetflux
powerinjector+sync powers 450m's really well. There will be a version which
does medusa sync out sometime soon, it's a sure thing, just we don't know
timing yet.
On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 5:07 AM, Tyson Burris <t...@franklinisp.net> wrote:
Good morning,
Looking for an all in one, but reliable, power source for 4 - 450m aps
per tower.
I have heard netonix a few times but I have also heard about some issues
with these devices and their support not being that great.
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