I would also caution those considering ubiquiti for anything fixed right now. They have a number of unaddressed issues with UNII frequencies and DFS.
Jared Mauch > On Mar 27, 2015, at 7:33 AM, Mike Hammett <na...@ics-il.net> wrote: > > Ken Chipps, there's a name I haven't seen in a while. > > Motorola did sell the Canopy line off to private equity and is now Cambiun > Networks. > > I started with Mikrotik in my WISP and still use them for routers and > switches, but I cannot recommend them for the fixed wireless portion. They > haven't pursued FCC certification for 5150 - 5350 or 5470 - 5725. > > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Kenneth M. Chipps Ph.D." <chi...@chipps.com> > To: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org> > Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 6:40:35 AM > Subject: RE: 802.11 based WISP hardware > > In my experience in the rural areas around DFW most of the smaller > operations, such as I had until recently, used Mikrotik equipment. Around > here SkyBeam has bought out all of the small and most of the large WISPs. > They retired the Mikrotik equipment in favor of Motorola Canopy originally. I > was told the Canopy line may have been sold to someone else. I think Cambium. > > The Mikrotik equipment I had at the top of my 96 foot tall tower was rock > solid. Never a hiccup in years of service in all kinds of weather. Of course > I did a proper standards based installation including bonding and grounding. > Proper installation makes a big difference no matter what you use. > > Kenneth M. Chipps Ph.D. > > -----Original Message----- > From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Jason Lixfeld > Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 6:00 AM > To: NANOG > Subject: 802.11 based WISP hardware > > Hi all, > > I’m looking to gather some public opinion, links and pointers around the > current landscape of WISP hardware vendors. I’m familiar with Cisco, Ruckus, > AdTran, Motorola and Aruba (HP) but I’m wondering who else is out there that > folks have used with success. My main areas of interest are around controller > based (hardware or virtual (in-house, not off-net cloud based)) systems that > have a range of indoor & outdoor 802.11AC PoE capable APs. The controller(s) > would be capable of tunnelling traffic from the APs for one or more SSIDs, > support per-SSID captive portals and unique, intra-SSID captive portals. In a > perfect world, an on-board DHCP server would be super handy too. The system > should support CAPWAP, but some proprietary alternative is also fine, the > usual suite of security protocols per SSID, reliable intra-SSID AP roaming > algorithms and multi-SSID capable. > > Thanks in advance. >
