[ANSS-netops] ethernet bridges

[David S. Croker]

Hi Dave,

Timely question for us too.  We have an application for just such a 
short hop "WiFi" link (across a parking lot).  We were thinking about 
using off-the-shelf wireless routers, but maybe we'll have to rethink 
things after your experience.

 From the NetOpsII meeting, I remember Richard Godbee from Virginia 
Tech saying he was using the Maxstream radios with good 
results.  Don't know the model numbers or any specs.  I seem to 
recall he was using it for cross-campus connections, but I can't be 
sure.  It looks like Maxstream was bought by Digi.  Those products 
look to have pretty good price to performance value and might be just 
right for your application, but I have no experience with them.

A couple other companies to check out are Afar and Eion (who recently 
bought WiLan).  I forget who I talked to who uses Afar products, but 
I know Berkeley uses WiLan products (although it seems like they are 
moving towards Freewave down in Parkfield).  Afar touts Mesh 
networking if that helps.

If you get something working that you like, let us know.  Like I 
said, we have an application for it too.

Dave Croker


At 03:16 PM 10/29/2008, Dave Drobeck wrote:
>Hi All,
>We recently deployed some dataloggers using consumer grade WiFi links.  They
>proved to be very poor performers for continuous telemetry.  We're looking
>for other ideas.  We could certainly use Freewave, Trango, Canopy, etc, but
>these are all way over-kill for the applications (a few hundred feet) and
>costly.   What other ethernet bridges have folks used (Maxstream?) that have
>proven reliable?
>Dave Drobeck
>University of utah
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