a note from Dwayne Hendricks regarding the Canopy product as well. -d
> Howdy! Long time since we've chatted. I just wanted to let you know > that we've been using Canopy on the EDUCAUSE AN-MSI Tribal Wireless > project since Sept. '01. We just finished a major deployment of Canopy > on three reservations in North Dakota and Montana. We used new 20 Mbps > units that came straight from the lab. We set the current distance > record with Canopy with a link at the Ft. Berthold Reservation of 27 miles. > I think that its a great product and you're going to continue to see > improvements in both the price and performance over the next year. > > Best, > -- Dewayne > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dewayne Hendricks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dewitt Latimer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 10:40 AM Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Network Hubs Article Washington Post. > >Not to steal John's corporate thunder, but... > > > >I'm have a test environment of Motorola's new Canopy technology stood up > >here in South Bend. See http://www.motorola.com/canopy/ > > > >The base station is mounted about 220 ft' up a local tower. We're covering > >about a 4 mile radius with line of site to the tower at speeds up to 6 meg > >(lower speeds at up to 10 miles but we haven't tested it). We have a 74 meg > >point-2-point link back to the campus to provide ND employees campus > >connectivity and act as their ISP. > > > >Canopy uses TDMA technology (you know...the battle that Motorola lost with > >Qualcom) and uses the unlicensed U-NII mid and upper bands. Cost model > >projects delivering package at less than DSL and/or cable. > > > >pretty slick in an area sparse with DSL and cable modems. > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/memdir/cg/.
