If he's wanting to make a "metro/muni/variousterm" "wireless" network
though, he's very likely not going to be using "Wi-Fi" at all. Sure,
many of the products may have a WiFi PHY layer, but for outdoor PtMP
environments you're talking TDMA, not CSMA.
He would be better served by some RF Engineering and vendor specific
courses, IMO.
(Just my $0.02 as having spent quite a bit of time in the WISP industry,
who has watched these "metro/muni/variousterm" networks die over and
over and over again.)
Josh Reynolds
CIO, SPITwSPOTS
www.spitwspots.com
On 06/02/2015 05:06 PM, lab...@gmail.com wrote:
With respect to vendor neutral training I would suggest starting with CWNP
@ www.cwnp.com.
They specialize in providing vendor-neutral Wi-Fi training and
certification. Instructor led training is available via certified training
partners. In addition, there are study guides available for purchase.
CWTS (lvl 0) - Intro - terms & lingo
CWNA (lvl 1) - Wi-Fi 101
CWSP (lvl 2) - Wi-Fi Security
CWDP (lvl 2) - Wi-Fi Design
CWAP (lvl2) - Wi-Fi Protocol Analysis
CWNE (lvl3)....
I recommend completing some or all the CWNP training to understand how
Wi-Fi works. Once you understand how Wi-Fi works, you'll know how to
design and configure a network to meet your design goals. Next, complement
your vendor neutral training with applicable vendor specific training to
understand their interface and specific nuances. Moving to another vendor
is just a matter of learning where the nerd knobs are for configuring their
product as you'll already know the fundamentals of Wi-Fi.
Kindest regards,
Troy
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*Troy Martin* | M 403.966.4370
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 2:18 AM, George Tasioulis <george.tasiou...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 8:23 PM, Hugo Slabbert <h...@slabnet.com> wrote:
Doubt how much PoE you'd use for the MetroWifi stuff, but for the
"small/medium events Wifi coverage":
Ubiquiti Networks.
Its cheap and it works great. Support sucks though.
Just watch it here if you're expecting to plug UniFi APs into standard
802.3af/at ports and get power. When I last interacted with them
(customer
equipment; year or two old, I believe) a lot of their WAPs are 24V, not
802.3af/at.
Only their UniFi AP & AP-LR are 24V, all the rest of their product line
(AP-PRO, AP-AC as well as the outdoor units) are 802.3af or 802.3at
compliant.
You can easily overcome this limitation by using their 8-port ToughSwitch
were each POE port can be configured to either 24V or 48V.
IMHO Ubiquity's UniFi is a very decent solution when you want to keep
budget low.
- G.