Comments on: Portland Goes MetroFi http://gigaom.com/2006/04/12/portland-goes-metrofi/ Trusted Insights and Conversations on the Next Wave of Technology Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:00:28 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Bob Williams http://gigaom.com/2006/04/12/portland-goes-metrofi/#comment-381682 Bob Williams Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:14:35 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/04/12/portland-goes-metrofi/#comment-381682 <p>Well, Azalea Networks Inc is the way to go!</p> <p>Please check out Frank Marshall's background. He really has some killer mesh routers in hand. When their production has come to scale, no one can compete. Not even Tropos, Bel Air, Strix ... etc.</p> <p>Keep watching everyone.</p> Well, Azalea Networks Inc is the way to go!

Please check out Frank Marshall’s background. He really has some killer mesh routers in hand. When their production has come to scale, no one can compete. Not even Tropos, Bel Air, Strix … etc.

Keep watching everyone.

]]> By: Victor Blake http://gigaom.com/2006/04/12/portland-goes-metrofi/#comment-46975 Victor Blake Sun, 16 Apr 2006 22:48:10 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/04/12/portland-goes-metrofi/#comment-46975 <p>Single radio systems --- cheap and dirty. It's like a single interface router. Not exactly efficient, elegant, or scaleable. But cheap. You get what you pay for. Multiradio devices are far and away superior in a mesh architecture.</p> <p>More importantly-- mesh is messhy (messy). For infrastructure providers that have the backhaul for most of their AP's -- mesh cannot compete on a performance basis. A lot of the muni wifi's being built are really first generation networks that will not scale well with coming demand and emerging changes in wireless networking.</p> <p>If WRAN (802.22) happens -- it can really change everything… Short of that multi-radio rules in mesh -- but even better is multi-radio with wired backhaul.</p> Single radio systems — cheap and dirty. It’s like a single interface router. Not exactly efficient, elegant, or scaleable. But cheap. You get what you pay for. Multiradio devices are far and away superior in a mesh architecture.

More importantly– mesh is messhy (messy). For infrastructure providers that have the backhaul for most of their AP’s — mesh cannot compete on a performance basis. A lot of the muni wifi’s being built are really first generation networks that will not scale well with coming demand and emerging changes in wireless networking.

If WRAN (802.22) happens — it can really change everything… Short of that multi-radio rules in mesh — but even better is multi-radio with wired backhaul.

]]> By: Jesse Kopelman http://gigaom.com/2006/04/12/portland-goes-metrofi/#comment-46974 Jesse Kopelman Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:45:38 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/04/12/portland-goes-metrofi/#comment-46974 <p>I think it's hard to go wrong with SkyPilot. Tropos is good too. Which one is better depends on your network topology and what kind of physicall assets you have for equipment mounting. If you have some taller buildings or towers available, SkyPilot is the way to go.</p> I think it’s hard to go wrong with SkyPilot. Tropos is good too. Which one is better depends on your network topology and what kind of physicall assets you have for equipment mounting. If you have some taller buildings or towers available, SkyPilot is the way to go.

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