Whoa! That's insane! As far as I can tell, the Lucent USB product is nothing
more than a USB to PCMCIA "Bridge", so this should be
easier I would think.... It's my understanding that Karlnet wrote the
drivers for Lucent anyway, is this not the case? Can you
offer any input on this Doug?!?
Phil Sadow
Ingineerix Communications Consultants
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Chia Sheng Wu" <cwu@cwlab.net>
To: <karlnet@WISPNotes.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 3:58 PM
Subject: RE: [Karlnet] Karlnet Wishlist Revisited (USB)???
> last I heard, it costs close $50k to get the dev kit for the Lucent USB
> Add in another $50k in development time, that means that KarlNet is down
> $100k at the get go
>
> How much would you pay for a USB license...$20-30? So, @ $20, KarlNet would
> have to sell 5000 USB licenses to just break even
>
> Probably not going to happen anytime soon
>
> -Charles
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: karlnet-admin@WISPNotes.com [mailto:karlnet-admin@WISPNotes.com]On
> Behalf Of barrywhitcomb
> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 2:57 PM
> To: karlnet@WISPNotes.com
> Subject: RE: [Karlnet] Karlnet Wishlist Revisited (USB)???
>
>
> One thing I would really like to see is a good Karlnet implementation
> that will work via USB (i.e. the USB unit with a Gold Card inside from
> Orinoco).
>
> It seems I was told at WISPCON in March that a USB driver was soon to be
> available. I'm not even sure what the technical issues are.
>
> It strikes me that a USB unit with an external antenna and a longer USB
> cable run (with the USB unit placed nearer the antenna) could be one way
> to keep CPE installation costs down in certain situations.
>
> Does anyone have additional thoughts or information to share concerning
> this?
>
> Barry Whitcomb
>
>
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