Re: 802.11 based WISP hardware

[Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net>]

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. 




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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
http://www.ics-il.com 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Kenneth M. Chipps Ph.D." <chipps () 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-bounces () 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.