WISP

Overview

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

Ubiquiti

Ubiquiti home page wikipedia

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

Management

Not being a Microsoft fan I am looking at alternatives to ["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

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

• OpenNMS
• PRTG
• Smokeping
• KS Soft Hostmonitor
• Zenoss