The Alvarion VL is great for bursty, best effort requirements where 90% of
the user applications can wait for that clear air within the noise floor,
but not for committed rate business class service.
Agreed. But what about when you are in an environment that TDD won't work
well? Sometimes the answer is to modify your offering to what the beset
thing is that can be delivered.
CIR service may need to be changed to MIR. In what cases is CIR really
needed? And what areas of your business or network also prevent the CIR Full
QOS guarantee from being realized?
Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad Belton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 1:03 PM
Subject: RE: [WISPA] Alvarion Comnet Radios have arrived
My thoughts exactly.
If the VL had a mechanism to "tune out" noise and a few other tools (dual
pol - dual band) that would enable the user avoid noise then it is possible
there simply would not be a better PtMP LE product available today. Without
those critical elements the VL is just not able to perform consistently in
RF hostile environments.
The Alvarion VL is great for bursty, best effort requirements where 90% of
the user applications can wait for that clear air within the noise floor,
but not for committed rate business class service.
Best,
Brad
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181
Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 11:46 AM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Alvarion Comnet Radios have arrived
Got it. Thanks.
I guess my "beef" comes from being a wifi based wisp. I find it too
difficult to reject interference with a csma based product. Anything with a
"wait for clear air, then transmit" MAC is GREAT for collocation. But sucks
when there are products around that don't follow that mechanism. That's (my
personal belief) why Canopy went with it's GPS sync. It doesn't care who's
already out there, when it's time to transmit it does. Trango does that to,
just without sync'ing the AP's.
My REAL world experience so far is that csmak (or csma/ca, or whatever
collision avoidance scheme you want to use) is GREAT where there aren't many
other systems within ear shot of the radios. However, when there are other
devices in the area, especially those that don't have a collision avoidance
mechanism, the csma radio will pay a heavy price in performance.
Having used both csma and polling products, I'm not putting in any wifi type
products at 5 gig. All of our next gen products will be polling as long as
we can keep things that way.
These days, I'm learning to sacrifice raw performance for reliability and
uptime. There's a balance, sure, but getting that last 10 to 20% out of a
product is less important to me than having a product that can survive some
of the games that my less scrupulous competitors play.
However, with EITHER technology choice, it's critical to design a network
that can, and does, physically (antenna choice and ap locations) isolates
your system as well as you possibly can. That seems to be the type of trick
that just can't be taught. Your network designer either gets it or he
doesn't. Heck, I've even done consulting gigs where I looked a guy right in
the eye and gave them several choices for site locations. Only to have them
pick something completely different, and sometimes unworkable.
80 to 90% of people's problems with wireless are self inflicted. Either
outright or in a lack of forethought manner.
Here's an idea for you Patrick. Make this product work both ways. Give it
the option to be either csma or some fancy new version of token ring. Then
we could optimize performance for any environment that we find ourselves in.
Oh yeah, I remember the big hubbub about GPS in the BreezeACCESS II line.
Why was it important for collocation then but not now?
Hope you guys all had a great Christmas!
Marlon
(509) 982-2181 Equipment sales
(408) 907-6910 (Vonage) Consulting services
42846865 (icq) And I run my own wisp!
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www.odessaoffice.com/marlon/cam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Leary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 9:26 AM
Subject: RE: [WISPA] Alvarion Comnet Radios have arrived
I'd never call you a neophyte, Marlon. A jolly elf maybe, neophyte
never...
CSMA/CA. But the MAC has been substantially altered, especially with 4.0
and the WLP (wireless link prioritization) feature where all stations
can be made to wait while those stations with spooled up voice can
release their packets regardless of where they are in the cell. Also, in
VL an operator can adjust numerous values of the CSMA/CA, such as
contention window duration, contention levels, etc. It is more
sophisticated than your basic polling and more efficient.
Patrick Leary
AVP WISP Markets
Alvarion, Inc.
o: 650.314.2628
c: 760.580.0080
Vonage: 650.641.1243
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181
Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 9:13 AM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Alvarion Comnet Radios have arrived
Got that part. I still didn't see in there anywhere, in plain English
that
a neophyte like me can understand, is this a polling or csmak product?
Marlon
(509) 982-2181 Equipment sales
(408) 907-6910 (Vonage) Consulting services
42846865 (icq) And I run my own wisp!
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.odessaoffice.com/wireless
www.odessaoffice.com/marlon/cam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Leary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 1:54 PM
Subject: RE: [WISPA] Alvarion Comnet Radios have arrived
Marlon, I'll answer this with a re-post of a September post that
explains, in part, why VL is not just regular CSMA:
<<trim>>
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