Matt, Don't forget the laws of statistics. You also have been in business
for less than 2 years. We didn't have interference problems our first 4
years either. It wasn't until year 5 and 6, that it started to become tough.
I may have complained a little about trango today, but List please don't
take it out of context. Every Telecom and their brother, is trying to
install in our town, they abandon their effort in defeat, and I'm still here
6 years later. My market also has Fiber in 80% of the building, there is
tough competition for the high ARPU business, and its a hard market to
consistently deliver on. And its not just the radio, it every aspect of a
company. We are evolving through the years of experience we have had, and
when we select which links we install and don't install, we do it with
responsible choices to protect our reputation as a company that can deliver
high ARPU quality. I'd argue that our network is a last man standing
network in our market today. A lot of my comments are based on that the
market will be changing, and manufacturers need to change with the market to
give us options to better offer quality broadband that can compete with
Fiber.
I'm not going to point to any specific manufacturer to say its not an
adeqaute product for the WISP that chose it, I'm just saying that Canopy is
no exception, none of the gear that is out there today is the perfect
system, and they are all 5 years old technology.
The company that has most currently risen above the others based on
technology to meet WISPs current need has been Alvarion with their V4
product.
Wether its enough value to justify the price, is for the WISP to decide, and
whether it will stay that way is up for the competing manufacturers to
decide.
For example the only thing Trango needs to do to be the leader again, is to
add a integrated 17-23db model fox or an EXT model Fox. They could easilly
do that with little sweat.
Or simply fix their ARQ firmware for the 5830 product line and not have to
make any hardware changes. Whether they choose todo that, I have no control
of.
Maybe they are so excited about their next generation Wi-Max gear, they want
to go straight to that? I don't know.
.
Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Liotta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Alvarion VL Fixes Problems with Backhaul Links
I am not suggesting that Canopy shouldn't be better, but it is certainly
better than good enough. Again, not only are we leading the industry in
ARPU, we also doing hundreds of thousands of VoIP minutes every month.
-Matt
Brad Larson wrote:
Jon, Canopy is not fast enough for many now and voip performance is
lacking.
Depending on the circumstance you may be right for many but the times are
changing very quickly. There are more and more projects hitting the
streets
where you don't even make the cut if you can't pass the higher data
traffic
or support more than 25 voip calls per sector. Brad
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 4:10 PM
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Since canopy is the most robust(3db C/I, ARQ, etc.) PTMP product in it's
class(and happens to be #1 deployed in US), anyone not using canopy will
likely find themselves conforming to the canopy operators' spectrum
usage.
As for coordination among the canopy operators, that's an easy problem to
solve...
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