Having done one LTE vendor and 450m the only mistake I made was not buying the 450m sooner.
Josh Luthman 24/7 Help Desk: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 5:54 PM Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote: > And yeah, 450m might be expensive, but so is all the LTE stuff. You'll > max out the legal EIRP with 450m, and get 8x8 MIMO. I think part of the > magic with LTE is that it will connect with ridiculously low signal, but on > a fixed system you probably won't really want the trashy signals anyway. > > Cambium also has LTE for whatever it's worth. The CBRS version is > supposed to be available relatively soon (though I forget precisely when). > > I don't know if I state it as "fewer issues since there is no EPC", but > definitely fewer complexities and fewer things to worry about. The > connection from eNB to EPC has to be *pristine*, and the EPC comes with > its own set of new terminology and new concepts to figure out. > > > On 9/11/2020 4:06 PM, Darin Steffl wrote: > > I have seen lots to people doing 450M in CBRS stating coverage is nearly > the same as LTE but way better speeds and triple the aggregate capacity due > to mu-mimo. > > Way fewer issues too since there is no EPC. Just straight layer 2 with no > bullshit. > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2020, 2:39 PM David Coudron <david.coud...@advantenon.com> > wrote: > >> We are looking at a new area to expand out network that has a lot more >> tree cover than our current footprint. We are thinking with the >> combination of CBRS and LTE, that we might be able to offer better coverage >> than with traditional fixed wireless options. We have started >> conversations with the following vendors, wondering if anyone has any hands >> on experience with any of them and what their impressions were: >> >> Blinq >> >> Airspan >> >> Baicells >> >> Ericsson >> >> >> >> The Ericsson equipment is in a class by itself price wise, but the others >> are similarly priced, and somewhere around double the price of PMP 450 >> stuff. Normally we would add more tower sites for better coverage, but >> this project will need to be done before the end of the year and building >> towers isn’t an option. We have good enough spread on the towers that we >> think we can do this with PMP 450 APs, but are thinking we’d get even >> better coverage out of LTE. Any opinions on the reliability and the >> manageability of the four vendors above? Sorry for such an open ended >> question, but not sure what to ask to be more specific. We know that we >> will have the LTE stuff to deal with like access to an EPC and so on, so >> not so much worried about that as more the manufacturers themselves. >> Baicells concerns us as they may get lumped in with Huawei. >> >> >> >> Thoughts? >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> >> >> David Coudron >> >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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