On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Patrick Leary wrote:
reduced truck roll,
Where are you getting this?
I have been in the ISP business longer than MOST people on this
list. I have nothing bad to say about Alvarion equipment, but the
fact is, that to use Alvarion gear in any network I would build, you
would HAVE to add an addition cost for a router. SO, we would add
another $25ish to the cost of your CPE. At this point, the price is
exactly the same (or very close).
NOW, let's talk about upsell capability. With the Alvarion solution
(including a router), I could upgrade the speed, but that costs how
much? I could offer a firewall, vpn, qos or other options, but I'd
have to change the cost of the router from a $25 router to (at
least) a $100 router. If I am able to hit one customer in an area,
but the others have obscured LOS, I would have to build another AP
somewhere, where with MT, I could just add an $80 (including
antenna) upgrade to their router and offer service off that new AP.
I can offer real options for firewall, vpn, qos from their ethernet
port all the way to my network edge. Did I miss anything? Perhaps
there are other options that Alvarion has that I missed.
--
Butch Evans
Network Engineering and Security Consulting
573-276-2879
http://www.butchevans.com/
Mikrotik Certified Consultant
(http://www.mikrotik.com/consultants.html)
--
WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org
Subscribe/Unsubscribe:
http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
