Hi Ian, Two things come to mind.
1. If it's a venue where you do repeated events, i.e. it's worth some
coordination time, you can do short range point-to-point links using
Nanostations going indoors to indoors through the lobby windows. For
example, the Miami Beach Convention Center is across the street from a
row of residential buildings. You'd need to cut deals with three
different residential tenants (for redundancy and capacity) that have
cable service, but point to point links across the street through the
windows would work just fine. [This comes from a discussion with some
friends at TMCnet who considered it but eventually decided it was too
much hassle for their once a year Miami event].
2. There are several firms that provide and manage commercial
equivalents to MiFi for things like buses and trains. They have
existing high volume 3G & 4G OEM deals with multiple carriers and might
be interested in supporting your events. There are also MiFi-like
devices that support 3-6 separate 3G or 4G interface cards and load
balance across multiple (different) 3G and 4G carriers. Load sharing
across 6 links from 3 carriers might get you the capacity and
reliability you need. [This thought comes from a discussion I had with
Brian Smith, founder of WAAV, http://waav.com/index.php, about two years
ago. I haven't talked to Brian recently, but I'd be happy to do an
email intro if that's useful.]
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On 6/15/12 1:33 AM, Ian Framson wrote:
More specifically, does anyone have a good Near-Line-of-Sight wireless
backhaul solution that can be deployed inside a hotel/convention
center *without* installing anything on the roof?
We need something that doesn't require roof access or low voltage
wiring (since many of the buildings in which we operate won't grant it).
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Doug Clark <d...@txox.com
<mailto:d...@txox.com>> wrote:
Why not just use a TOW but for Bandwidth? You do not have to do
roof top rights and you will have the equipment wherever you go.
This one will go up to 106 feet self supporting. 150 feet if you
guy it.
http://www.towerworx.net/products.php
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/*From:*/ Cameron Crum <mailto:cc...@wispmon.com>
/*Date:*/ 6/14/2012 10:08:45 PM
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/*Subject:*/ Re: [WISPA] High Bandwidth 900 MHz/1900 MHz
Good luck. The only thing they will offer is 4G mifi type routers.
They simply don't do one-off backhaul. They make a lot more off
cell traffic than off a few hundred dollar event and they
certainly aren't going to carve out a piece of spectrum for one
organization.
Cameron
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Ian Framson
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Hi Wisps,
Though it may be taboo to ask, is anyone familiar with a high
bandwidth (50-100+ Mbps) solution from any of the cellular
carriers on 700/800/1900 <tel:700%2F800%2F1900> MHz licensed
frequencies?
We're looking for a way to "bring in" a large amount of wireless
bandwidth for conferences at hotels and convention centers without
having to tango with the venue over roof access rights for a site
survey, mast location, low voltage requirements for running
ethernet cable, etc.
Perhaps the cellular carriers offer some sort of
non-commercially-available 4G Premium plan that is available upon
request?
Thanks in advance for your ideas,
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