It's the same stuff as nextnet well not exact same they came
to show us a presentation *600$ per cpe and 50g's per sectorial ap* to cover
our 27square mile island they told us to give full coverage we needed 10
repeaters and we would have bulletproof wireless NLOS access, there units
just sit in the house plugged into Ethernet and your on no more mounting of
antennas or anything just give the client the cpe and its off plus it had
options for virtual isp's and shit like that but I didn't really need all
that cause our islands too small as it is. It's a wonderful idea and then we
figured out WHY it was so great at NLOS, they had some interesting
technology to get beyond multipath problems on 5.8 (they were doing it for
2.4 also if we wanted I but we had to secure 3 PRIVATE 2.4 channels that we
could lock down for our own use.. HAHA ye sure) but as I was saying it's a 2
WATT amp in the CPE and a 2 WATT amp on each AP... umm guys if we put 2 watt
amps on our smartbridges with a 5db omni and a 20db sectorial with 2 watts
of power.. wouldn't that basically cover the NLOS concept LOL. Just my 2
cents, but the beam stearing does seem interesting no where near as
expensive as the nextnet stuff as for vivato there awesome units in theory I
guess would love to have a few to test out, where are they selling them
haven't seem any distro's with them, and the beamsteer company I wonder how
there gonna license there circuitry.
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe
Laura [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 7:54 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can they really claim this is NLOS? Under what
circumstances? I tried it in
new orleans and had
problems 1 block away. They said it might have been the
construction of the buildings. I have seen smartbridges penetrate a
wall or
two under ideal conditions. I still wouldnt
consider that NLOS though.
Superior Wireless
New Orleans,La.
www.superior1.com
----- Original Message
-----
From: "Oliver Shaw"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, May
31, 2003 1:55 AM
Subject: Re: [smartBridges]
bandstearing?
>
> Yes, vivato does steer the
beam as well. They call it packet steer because
>
they steer every packet toward the target CPE. In other words, the
switch
> follow the exact location of each client
and beam the signal only toward
> that client in
a narrow 7% beamwidth. This makes the signal strong and cut
> down wasted rf energy. There is a second antenna just "listen"
to the CPE
> and receive packets from that
direction. There is one more antenna
> programmed
to keep track of the locations of each client, the coordinates
> of each client is then send to the "transmit" and
"receive" antennas to
> maximize range.
>
> The switch can be mounted
outdoor and beam all the signals to customers
>
inside buildings. All the customers need is a standard wireless card
in
> their PCs. The list price I last heard is
$9,000.00 for the indoor version
> and about
$14,000.00 for the outdoor verson.
>
> The only way WISPs can bring wireless access to the
masses is eliminate
> the need for externally
mounted outdoor antenna on the customer side and
> the customer can use off the shelf wireless cards (about
$50.00). Lets be
> honest, do you really expect
the most customers pay hundreds os dollars to
>
buy special CPEs and outdoor antennas? These stuff will work in small
> scale in rural regions where adsl and cable internet
service is not
> available.
>
> I love SB equipment and I wish SB
can focus on research and manufacture
> NLOS
wireless products. There is a huge market waiting for these. A good
> place for SB to start is WIMAX compliance
products.
>
>
> Oliver
>
>
> On Fri, 30 May 2003, Marlon Schafer
(509-982-2181) wrote:
>
> > Vivato does NOT beam steer!!!!!
> >
> > They packet steer.
Big huge difference.
> >
> > marlon
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "Oliver Shaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 6:21 PM
> > Subject: Re: [smartBridges] bandstearing?
> >
> >
> > > Hi Chris,
> >
>
> > > Beam steering is just one of
technique used by some to focus the
signal in
> > > certain specific way to improve range. These
wifi switch act as the
normal
> > > base station or access point as we know of. On the
customer end they
still
>
> > use the standard wifi (802.11b) cards.
> > >
> > > The other
company using similar antenna technique is vivato.net. The
> > > advantage these switches is the extended range of
coverage. They can
cover
> > > 2 to 3 miles NLOS.
> >
>
> > > Oliver
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On
Fri, 30 May 2003, phantam wrote:
> >
>
> > > > :: Posted in wrong msg
reply ::
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
>
> > > > Is beam stearing still
802.11? It is right? Just heard that
bandspeed
is
> > > > gonna be licensing there
bandstearing chips out sounds intriguing.
While
> > im
> > > > on the subject are there any wifi switches that
aren't bound to 1
access
> > > > point? Too bad I haven't found one that works for
SB's LOL
> > > >
> > > > Chris
> > >
>
> >
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