Re: [WISPA] Powercode 477 Data Grossly Inaccurate

[Duncan Scott]

Yeah, making the full code is kind of hard given there are many 
county/tract/block codes in our coverage areal.

Looking into it further, if you open chrome developer tools and then run 
a query, there will be a json response starting with 
https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/rest/services/TIGERweb/Tracts_Blocks/MapServer/2/query?f=json
 
  that includes all of the details including the GeoID.

Kind of convoluted, but still the easiest way I've seen to get the Geo 
ID from an arbitrary polygon.

~Duncan

On 8/31/2016 11:32 AM, Jeremy Austin wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Duncan Scott  <mailto:dsc...@onlinenw.com>> wrote:
>
> How do you export the data from TigerWeb?
>
>
> Copy and paste the resulting list of block codes. (If you click on one,
> you'll see the full Geographic Identifier, which is what the FCC wants.)
>
> You'll still need to prepend (I use Excel for this) the State FIPS code,
> county, tract, and block group codes, which, depending on your
> geography, might be complex — in my area it wasn't, as Alaskan block
> groups are huge.
>
> The resulting block identifiers will look like the codes exported from
> Powercode/Towercoverage/Sonar etc. Then you'll need the remaining
> columns, which are delivery technology code (2 digits), residential
> boolean, residential down, residential up, business boolean, business
> down, business up. I believe down/up is max offered speeds, in megabits.
> Format info is in the reference material at the 477 web interface.
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Re: [WISPA] Powercode 477 Data Grossly Inaccurate

[Duncan Scott]

How do you export the data from TigerWeb?


On 8/30/2016 5:15 PM, Jeremy Austin wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Chris Fabien  > wrote:
>
> We were getting like 20 blocks from powercode when we should have
> several hundred...
>
>
> I found it fairly simple to use TIGERweb (a census GIS) which has a
> query tool, to draw some shapes and spit out the list of census blocks.
> A little munging in Excel… and voila.
>
> https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/tigerweb/
>
> Then again, I don't have widely varying service offerings or odd-shaped
> territories… YMMV
>
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Re: [WISPA] UBB tracking

[Duncan Scott]

What wireless hardware are you using?

I have some custom stuff that tracks UBB on canopy 450 and ubnt hardware 
on a per SM level that I've been meaning to get around to open sourcing.

~Duncan

On 7/28/2016 12:52 PM, Scott Reed wrote:
> I am working with a client that does usage based billing, but their
> billing platform is not counting the bytes.  So for this discussion,
> please leave billing systems out.
>
> Right now they use an old set of perl scripts that receive NetFlow data
> from the Mikrotik routers.  For various reasons, not the least of which
> right now is a major anomaly in what it being reporting vs what it used
> to be that we are looking for something else to replace the old system.
> We are still OK to use NetFlow, just need to capture and display it better.
>
> Looking for recommendations for NetFlow capture and display software.
> What do you know of that works?
>
> Also, we have looked at NTOP, but the user interface is way too much for
> what they need.  Is there an NTOP lite or NTOP for dummies that only
> displays basic usage data so they can bill from it and the customer can
> see their own usage?
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[WISPA] DC UPS (and Solar?) Setup.

[Duncan Scott]

Hi,

So historically we've been a mostly AC setup, but I'm trying to figure 
out a DC setup for some of our smaller sites, and hopefully a solar 
setup as well. I'm new to all of this though so I'm trying to see if 
anyone has any written guides or part lists. Basic goal is to power an 
airfiber or equivalent and A few Canopy or Ubnt APs.

Here's what I've been looking at so far:

48v DC power supply
Traco TSP-BCMU360
Packetflux Site monitor 2 base
Packetflux SiteMonitor 6 Channel Switch Closure Input
Neotonix DC switch

This seems to work okay, the TSP-BCMU360 charges and monitors the 
battery and the Packetflux Sitemonitor provides a network connection to 
monitor the status.

Issues so far:

I'm running the site monitor off the BCMU, but this means that it's 
input power is 48v, I want to monitor the voltage of the battery, but 
that's just 12v and I don't think I can have different voltages plugged 
into the two inputs to the site monitor. Another option would be to have 
the site monitor powered off the batteries directly, but that seems bad...

Is the packetflux stuff the best solution for this, or is there another 
web enabling option? Seem pretty good so far, but I'm not even sure what 
the other options are.

The other issue is I have no idea what I should be using for 
breaker/fuses for the equipment. A suggested list of DIN mountable stuff 
I should have would be super useful if someone has it on hand. Also who 
to order this stuff from.

The other thing I would like to try is some kind of solar setup. Again 
it need to be monitored remotely. Power draw would be as low as I could 
manage. This is Oregon, so not lots of snow, but there are a lot of 
cloudy days. Packetflux makes several items that integrate with Morning 
Star controllers. It that a good way to go? Something like a TS-MPPT-30?

Batteries are another thing. I'm also very curious if Lithium ion 
batteries are feasible yet. This would need a different charger but it 
would save a TON of space and maybe even be cost effective given the 
smaller enclosure size that would be possible.

Then there is the issue of what solar panels to buy.

If anyone has any thoughts, comments, links, documents, etc. I'd really 
appreciate it.

Thanks,
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Re: [WISPA] Fiber MUX

[Duncan Scott]

I believe some RAD products will do this. We use some of their T1 fiber 
multiplexers and are pretty happy with them, don't run Ethernet on them 
though.

http://www.rad.com/12/Fiber-Multiplexers/13298/

~Duncan
On 5/20/2013 8:12 AM, Matt Hoppes wrote:
> Hi All,
> Is anyone aware of a MUX that will let me MUX together T1s (needs to be
> transparent) and Ethernet?  I need to MUX them together on one end, and
> then unMUX on the other end.  Again... it all needs to be transparent.

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Re: [WISPA] Industry Accronym

[Duncan Scott]

For a while we were using WiBand, which I though was catchy.

~Duncan
On 4/16/2013 4:56 PM, Gino Villarini wrote:
>
> So I was thinking that us as Wisp need a service acronym to market… 
> like WiFi, 4G, LTE and DSL…. And it hit me…
>
> Fixed Wireless Broadband…
>
> FiWi-B
>
> Promunced feewee bee?
>
> No?
>
> Gino A. Villarini
>
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> Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp.
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> 787.273.4143
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[WISPA] CIPA filtering

[Duncan Scott]

Hi,

We currently use a Sonicwall firewall for some CIPA filtering for a 
school district.

Recently there was an issue and we are reevaluating this. Specifically 
they had an issue with Google image search.  I'm not sure how this is 
usually handled as even with SafeSearch forced to on inappropriate 
images can be found fairly easily.

Do people just end up blocking image searches, or Google entirely? 
Anyone have any advice on this?

Thanks,
Duncan
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Re: [WISPA] "Virtual" T-1 PRI

[Duncan Scott]

Didn't finish my sentence.  A 904 has 4 analog ports but it I believe it 
can support a full T1 PRI in addition to that.

~Duncan

On 8/5/2011 3:51 PM, Duncan Scott wrote:
> We've also made use of the TA 900 series stuff for T1 PRI to SIP trunk.
> Works very well.
>
> A 904 has 4 analog ports,
>
> ~Duncan
>
> On 8/5/2011 12:37 PM, Patrick Shoemaker wrote:
>> The folks on the Voiceops list seem to be fans of using Adtran for this:
>>
>> http://www.adtran.com/web/page/portal/Adtran/product/4212904L1/39
>>
>> Let me know if you try one of those out. I'd like to start doing this too. 
>> I'd want the CPE to be as dumb as possible. An asterisk box at the customer 
>> seems like a lot of complexity and room for failure modes to me.
>>
>> -- 
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>> Behalf Of can...@believewireless.net
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>> Asterisk box in with a T-1 PRI interface and connecting it to the customer's 
>> equipment.
>> Would this work?
>>
>> Any pitfalls?  Any affordable turnkey solutions for this?
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Re: [WISPA] "Virtual" T-1 PRI

[Duncan Scott]

We've also made use of the TA 900 series stuff for T1 PRI to SIP trunk.  
Works very well.

A 904 has 4 analog ports,

~Duncan

On 8/5/2011 12:37 PM, Patrick Shoemaker wrote:
> The folks on the Voiceops list seem to be fans of using Adtran for this:
>
> http://www.adtran.com/web/page/portal/Adtran/product/4212904L1/39
>
> Let me know if you try one of those out. I'd like to start doing this too. 
> I'd want the CPE to be as dumb as possible. An asterisk box at the customer 
> seems like a lot of complexity and room for failure modes to me.
>
> -- 
> Patrick Shoemaker
>
>
> -Original Message-
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> Behalf Of can...@believewireless.net
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> Subject: [WISPA] "Virtual" T-1 PRI
>
> Has anyone set these up for customers?  We were thinking about putting an 
> Asterisk box in with a T-1 PRI interface and connecting it to the customer's 
> equipment.
> Would this work?
>
> Any pitfalls?  Any affordable turnkey solutions for this?
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Re: [WISPA] [WISPA Approved Ad] IPiFony

[Duncan Scott]

Hello,

I just wanted to say that we've been using an IPifony system since June
of last year.  We use their virtual PBX system internally and provide
service to business customers as well.  The virtual PBX is very nice and
the system can create very complex/flexible phone trees and call
routes.  They use Cisco VOIP phones and we have found the hardware to be
excellent and the software interface to be fairly intuitive.  In my
opinion it a really great system that scales well from a 2 phone company
to an 80 phone company.

We also provide residential service with an ATA device.  We've been
making use of this on Canopy 900, 2.4 and 5.8 equipment with good
results.  Care must be taken to make sure that QoS is set up properly
throughout the network and that DSCP is set up correctly but with that
configured call quality is very good.  Faxing, as with all VOIP, can be
a little difficult sometimes, but the IPifony product also include a fax
interface on their web portal that we have several customers using very
happily.

Support has been very good.  Due to a somewhat unique setup we've made
several demands beyond what is typically required of their system and
they have accommodated us.

Phone service seems to fairly high margin compared to our wireless
business.  The bundling provides a way for us to get more profit from
each customer while at the same time reducing the chance of them leaving
our service.

We are happy with the product and are finding voice service to be an
area with real growth potential that is definitely worth the investment.


Duncan Scott
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