WISP
Overview
This is sort of generic information about the WISP business but from the perspective of what CDS uses.
Cambium Canopy
Cambium home page wikipedia on Motorola Canopy
"A customer can query the status of their SM by viewing URL 169.254.1.1/main.cgi with a web browser (unless the network operator uses a different IP address or has put the subscriber in a VLAN."
- 900 MHz for non-line-of-sight applications - also very long range?
- 5.7 GHz - normally used for backhauls
3 - 15 mile range
- cluster manager
- access point
- subscriber module
- back haul
MikroTik
MikroTik home page wikipedia entry which does not contain much useful information
I have a MikroTik RouterBoard in a black box. I need to flash RouterOS on it so I can use it for testing.
- SXT "Six pack" = one router plus 5 CPE They claim up to 200 MBps
- RouterBoard
- Managed switch
- 5 Ghz
MikroTik management
Some of this is generic network management stuck here until I reorganize this page
Alternatives to MikroTik#"The Dude" for managing and monitoring my RouterOS equipmnent.
http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=39335 http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=76300
Ubiquiti Networks
They used to be known for high power WiFi PC cards that could be used with other equipment (like RouterBoards)
- AirGrid M5
- Bullet
- NanoStation M5 5 Ghz CPE
Firmware is "AirOS" = their version of Linux
RF
AirMax - Proprietary MIMO protocol on 900, 3, 5
AirFiber 24 Ghz
Network management
NMIS -- hard to tell from the cute cartoons what this is.
$ Nagios is a powerful monitoring system that enables organizations to identify and resolve IT infrastructure problems before they affect critical business processes.
NetXMS Open source network monitoring system - uses Openstreetmap
Cacti Cacti is a complete network graphing solution - lots of plugins - Packt book
| package | cost | os | link |
| Cheops | 0 | ||
| IPPlan | 0 | ||
| OpenNMS | 0 | Win, Mac, Linux | http://www.opennms.org/ |
| OpManager | $ | http://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/ | |
| PRTG | |||
| Rancid | |||
| Smokeping | |||
| KS Soft Hostmonitor | |||
| Zenoss |
