Re: [Karlnet] Terabeam-Hope and input

["Norm Young" <lists@applegatebroadband.net>]

Here's a letter I sent today to Mr. Fitzgerald:

Hi Robert,

Appreciate your efforts to communicate with us Karlnet WISPs about the 
future of Turbocell.  I like your approach, but would like to share some 
thoughts with you.

I've found the KN-50/Wincomm 19dB panel assembly to be a real competitive 
advantage.  If I could deploy a/g Karlnet CPE solutions in that price range 
($250-400), it would be an absolute home run.  I'm hoping that your new 
generation of boards (utilizing I'm assuming the Atheros a/b/g radios) can 
fulfill this role.   It would also be nice if these boards supported NAT. 
It's a pain to have to keep watch on all these customer routers, in that the 
KN-50 is only a bridge.  The other big thing is bandwidth control. 
Currently, it's symmetrical.  Most of my network is residential, who get 
asymmetrical service, so that means I must have a Mikrotik or StarOS router 
involved somewhere in the network, preferably as close as possible to the 
point of use (usually one hop away) to do, if nothing else, bandwidth 
control. (However the flexibility of that software allows for so much 
more...)

I have been rolling out some experimental microPOPs using StarOS/WRAP boards 
using the Atheros a/b/g radios to service small residential markets.   The 
future in my network, now that the superWIPOP's have covered the large 
markets is smaller markets (often residential), and an approach towards 
smaller cell sizes in areas already covered to scale up bandwidth to the 
customer.  Because our terrain is complex, these repeaters may be several 
repeaters in from the superWIPOP, fed at the head-end (currently) by Trango 
5.8 PtMP radios, and because of the multihop configuration need to support 
the routing flexibility offered by StarOS and Mikrotik.   If I could do this 
with Karlnet, I'd be happier in that I don't have to support so many 
different hardware/software configurations, I don't have to worry about 
having too many clients per AP for 802.11x, AND most importantly I've got a 
stable, cost effective, standard CPE.

I would also like to see some more flexibility/innovation in the router 
side of things, as this is what is attracting me to Mikrotik/StarOS (we have 
a MT router collocated on our mountain-top SuperWIPOP with Karlnet and 
Trango PtMP radios,  MT 5.8 backhaul, and scattered throughout our network 
as routers).  Perhaps a licensing deal where Karlnet Turbocell protocol 
could be used with Mikrotik or StarOS?  (It would sell one heck of a lot of 
Karlnet CPEs!)  Right now, this is the weakness of the Mikrotik and StarOS 
approach, not to mention scalability.  Their router software, however, with 
all due respect, absolutely blows Karlnet away.   Combine the two, and wow.

Norm

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dzevad Hadzic" <zex@zex.biz>
To: "'Karlnet Mailing List'" <karlnet@WISPNotes.com>
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 1:56 PM
Subject: RE: [Karlnet] Terabeam-WISP list response


> Well seems to me that last letter from Robert Fitzgerald CEO terabeam give
> us all some hope about future of our favorite products and now some of us
> are instead being grateful and patient asking for new features in our
> favorit equipment :)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cj [mailto:cj@cpvegas.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 9:59 PM
> To: karlnet@WISPNotes.com
> Subject: [Karlnet] Terabeam-WISP list response
>
> When is 4.46 gonna be released?  i've heard it promised to be released for
> months now.
>
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