Aperto PacketWave vs Airspan WipLL

Hello!

What to choose for our city network?

Does anybody have expirience with any of this equipment?

SY

Ernest Moshkov <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news:(E-Mail Removed):

> Hello!
>
> What to choose for our city network?
>
> Does anybody have expirience with any of this equipment?
>
> SY
>
>

What city ? Is it a metropolitan area, or is it like Carroll, Iowa ? It
makes a big difference. Are you in the initial stages of planning, or has a
large effort already been put forth ? Do you have licensing ? After looking
at their websites, it seems as tho the Aperto only comes in with 5.8 GHz
for unlicensed and the other freq. ranges are licensed. The Airspan for
unlicensed is available in 900MHz, 2.4GHz and 5.8GHz. I can't imagine you
have purchased licenses.

Having done a state-wide deployment (and other deployment's) of another
companies product, rival's of both aforementioned companies, and if you
wanted to use all unlicensed frequencies only, it would be best to use a
mix of 900 and 2.4, maybe even 5.8 as well. 900 MHz has better penetration
of foliage and obstruction's, and link's that may not be usable in 2.4 or
5.8 GHz may work well in the 900 range.

Setting up a WISP is a not as simple as throwing up an antenna and selling
subscription's.....well it could be, but not if you are serious about
having a service that is reliable, can provide the bandwidth you were
counting on, and can acheive strong links where you expect to get strong
links. Prop studies should be done, there are a couple of good free tools.



Regards,


DS

DS wrote:
>>
>>What to choose for our city network?
>>
>>Does anybody have expirience with any of this equipment?
>>
> What city ? Is it a metropolitan area, or is it like Carroll, Iowa ? It

Oh, it's Lipetsk. Russian city with about half million citizens.

> makes a big difference. Are you in the initial stages of planning, or has a
> large effort already been put forth ? Do you have licensing ? After looking
> at their websites, it seems as tho the Aperto only comes in with 5.8 GHz
> for unlicensed and the other freq. ranges are licensed. The Airspan for
> unlicensed is available in 900MHz, 2.4GHz and 5.8GHz. I can't imagine you
> have purchased licenses.

Here in Russia we have to license every frequency.
900 MHz used for GSM, and 2.4G used for other ISP with Cisco Aironet.
We are planning to use 3.5, 5.3 or 5.8 GHz.

>
> Setting up a WISP is a not as simple as throwing up an antenna and selling
> subscription's.....well it could be, but not if you are serious about
> having a service that is reliable, can provide the bandwidth you were
> counting on, and can acheive strong links where you expect to get strong
> links. Prop studies should be done, there are a couple of good free tools.
>
Ok. Thank you for your time.
I just want to hear somebody using this equipment.

SY