I was always asking Motorola to make a version of 900 that used the entire 
band.  
In some rural applications it would have worked just find and could have gotten 
full speed out of it.  
Was never to be.  I wonder if they could have applied the Orthogon method to 
900.  



From: Jeff Broadwick - Lists 
Sent: Friday, October 4, 2024 8:34 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Tarana G2

BTW, we’ve seen people replace 900 MHz with 3GHz Tarana and the results have 
been terrific.


Regards,

Jeff 

Jeff Broadwick 
CTIconnect

312-205-2519 Office
574-220-7826 Cell
jbroadw...@cticonnect.com


  On Oct 4, 2024, at 10:19 AM, Jeff Broadwick - Lists <jeffl...@att.net> wrote:


  It won’t hit everything, but within 10 miles or so, 3GHz goes through a ton 
of foliage and 5 and 6 will generally go through a line of trees.  Nothing goes 
through dirt, but Tarana embraces multipath so it’s quite possible that you can 
get a solid connection off of a carom shot (mainly off of buildings)…people are 
doing that all over the place. 

  The interference mitigation isn’t magic, but it’s freaking close.  

  We’ve been selling it for 3 years, so I’ve seen quite a few scenarios.


  Regards,

  Jeff 

  Jeff Broadwick 
  CTIconnect

  312-205-2519 Office
  574-220-7826 Cell
  jbroadw...@cticonnect.com


    On Oct 4, 2024, at 9:43 AM, dmmoff...@gmail.com wrote:


     
    Jeff,

     

    I know someone who tested Tarana and he seems convinced that it’s the NLOS 
holy grail that we always wanted.  Like what every Wimax and LTE vendor 
promised us and couldn’t deliver.  We have a long history in the industry which 
should make us all skeptical of NLOS claims so I’m curious if it’s really as 
great as all that. Any comment, Jeff?

     

    When we were doing 5ghz canopy, we bracketed our city with a dozen towers 
to give ourselves lots of options and we still had to end up saying “no” to 
half our installs.  This is urban/suburban so we’re usually talking about one 
rooftop or one row of trees in the way.  At most 100ft of foliage to penetrate 
before you’re in clear skies.  5ghz Canopy would work, but it tended to be 
unreliable in those conditions and we just found it wasn’t worth the trouble 
and the damage to our credibility if we installed it.  Our Alvarion VL using 
neighbors always talked up how well their thing worked NLOS, but their actual 
outcomes and my own testing of the product told me that it only “works” NLOS 
within certain definitions of “works”, i.e.: you’d have to willing to accept 
high error rates and low MCS as “working”.  Anything else built around a WiFi 
chipset I’d lump in with Alvarion.  

     

    900mhz of course worked within the limits of its bandwidth and high 
interference, and I’d say more or less the same about 2.4ghz.  

     

    Wimax was an incremental improvement because you could get some predictable 
and reliable outcomes NLOS, but your NLOS customers are still lowering 
efficiency of the system due to retransmits and lower MCS, and I never saw a 
Wimax product that wasn’t a total PITA on the management side.  I bitched 
endlessly about the Motorola CAP320, but after seeing what some other vendors 
had I think CAP320 might have been the cream of the crop as far as operability. 
 LTE was another incremental step up, but at best maybe half as good as it was 
hyped up to be.

     

    If Tarana makes every install a success then we should give them all of our 
money and be happy to do it, but it absolutely better work.

     

    -Adam

     

     

     

     

     

    From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Jeff Broadwick - Lists
    Sent: Friday, October 04, 2024 8:40 AM
    To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
    Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Tarana G2

     

    I can get you any pricing you need.

     

    My understanding is that the G2 will be dual band, 3 and 6GHz.  It will be 
able to use 4x 40MHz channels and still provide all the interference mitigation 
of the G1 with 2x 40MHz channels.

     

    I’m sure there is more, but that is what I know now.

     

    Regards,

     

    Jeff 

     

    Jeff Broadwick

    CTIconnect

    312-205-2519 Office

    574-220-7826 Cell

    jbroadw...@cticonnect.com





      On Oct 3, 2024, at 6:43 PM, Dev <d...@logicalwebhost.com> wrote:

      I wish Tarana’s price was the actual price, instead of sometimes a ton, 
sometimes a half a ton, sometimes don’t know. That way, I could calculate how 
many decades it would be until each customer would be profitable (outside of 
subsidized builds).





        On Oct 3, 2024, at 3:04 PM, Jason McKemie 
<j.mcke...@veloxinetbroadband.com> wrote:

         

        The G1 is expensive enough, are people actually deploying these on a 
large scale?  The AP is pricey, but not necessarily a deal-breaker - those 
subscriber units though...

         

        On Thu, Oct 3, 2024 at 1:21 PM Ken Hohhof <khoh...@kwom.com> wrote:

          Osborne Effect refers to one of the most infamous marketing fails of 
all time.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect

           

          Has Tarana done this by announcing the G2 while all they have 
shipping is the G1?

           

          Or is the G2 so much more expensive that it’s just for window 
shopping anyway?  I figure if these are being bought with BEAD money, frugality 
may be out the window.

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