Hi Travis, I'm with you - the Nanostations are a pretty amazing product. I've been deploying Nanostations on 10mhz channels in 2.4 and 5ghz with StarOS access points and the performance/interference resistance is pretty amazing at ANY price point. I could say the same thing for the newer Tranzeo CPE units as well, but they can't match up with the Ubiquity price point just yet.
It is neat to see a product with many of the Canopy advantages (rich features, small footprint, inexpensive to produce, good interference resistance) that is compatible with the 802.11a/b/g standards and thus able to take advantage of the very innovative Mikrotik and StarOS platforms. I'm curious to see if someone comes up with a good reflector for the Nanostation radios. That would enable the use of the adaptive antenna mode, and since StarOS has the ability to switch connectors on the fly - and potentially polarity if hooked up to a dual-pol antenna - you would end up with a standards based product that would have nearly every feature that the Trangos had that made them special (noise threshold at the AP, software switchable polarity, site survey, etc). No polling, but that is one of the most overrated features anyway. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com Travis Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > I would agree... I think there is an opportunity as well. There are some > new products in the market recently (Ubiquiti Nanostation) that could > shake things up a little. Getting an FCC product with PoE and a Ubiquiti > quality radio for $79 is pretty amazing (I will be testing some this > coming week). It really makes you wonder how much money some of these > companies can really have into a radio system (Trango, Canopy, etc.) > when Ubiquiti can sell a brand new product for $79 MSRP. Granted there > are not a lot of "bells and whistles", but honestly most of the WISP's > out there don't need that. If you can buy a radio for $79, you can put > whatever you need behind it (Cisco, Mikrotik, etc.) and still be less > than $200 for a nice CPE. > > I think Trango's first mistake was the "mesh" game they played for a > year. Then when they decide to get back into the game, they promise a > product that seems too good to be true... and now it turns out, it was. > So, they are now 2+ years behind everyone else in the R&D world, and > they are losing customers left and right. The licensed market may help > get them by for a while, but I don't think that is enough business to > sustain the company forever. > > Travis > > Charles Wu wrote: > >> Travis, >> >> I agree with you 100%...I still think there's a huge opportunity in the >> market right now that's being missed for a solid 2nd player (not Motorola >> Canopy) in the last-mile access space >> >> However, neither you nor I run Trango >> >> If you step back and look at the situation, this discussion is pretty >> interesting, coming from 2 people who really know Trango well-- we were >> their largest distributor back before they got rid of the channel, and you >> probably operate one of the largest Trango networks now >> >> That said, you've started building out your network with different access >> solutions, and we're doing other stuff >> >> It looks like we've both moved on... >> >> -Charles >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
