Campus size Wireless LAN

Wed Jul 21 21:50:05 UTC 2004

Brandon Pinsky wrote:

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>  I just installed a Quickbridge 60 recently.  It's pretty nice.  The 
> throughput is good over a .75 mile link.  I was able to successfully 
> push ~20Mbps with an iperf test.  Installation was easy relative to 
> some of the other equipment we have installed.  The feed line is UTP 
> and the radio gets power over the UTP cable.  The uplink interface is 
> 100BaseT which is easy.  My only complaint is that it is not remotely 
> manageable.  You have to have direct console to make any config 
> changes which means taking the link down.  We have another .11a system 
> in production made by RadioLan and it is plagued by the same design 
> flaw.  Stupid... I'd like to compare it to the Cisco one.  I bet it is 
> more manageable.
>
> BJ
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> On Jul 21, 2004, at 2:01 PM, Eric Brown wrote:
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>> Anyone have experience with Proxim's tsunami quickbridge for wireless
>> connectivity between buildings at line of site distances under 1 mile?
>> It's cheaper than Cisco and looks good on paper.  Looking for the good
>> bad and ugly.  Thanks in advance!
>>
>> -Eric
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check http://www.alvarion.com

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