{"id":2582,"date":"2018-11-14T04:24:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T04:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/?p=2582"},"modified":"2018-11-14T15:37:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T15:37:56","slug":"wisp-teamwork-to-make-signals-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/wisp-teamwork-to-make-signals-better\/","title":{"rendered":"WISP Teamwork to make signals better"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is a huge shout out to Tasos Alexiou\u00a0from RF Elements<\/a>.\u00a0 This story started out at WISPAPALOOZA Vegas this year.\u00a0 I had a few clients who have been fighting noise issues. While working the Cambium booth we would go over the benefits of ePMP for noise mitigation.\u00a0 This would naturally lead to an antenna discussion. You can’t have an antenna discussion without mentioning RF Elements and their horn design.\u00a0 As with anything, clients are skeptical to things outside the conventional way of doing things.\u00a0 It’s not that the client is closed minded, but change becomes a little harder when revenue and cash outlay are involved.\u00a0 I am a very visual guy so I walked several of these clients over to the RF Elements booth so they could see the product and have it explained\u00a0by the folks themselves.<\/p>\n

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These clients were getting it, but I could tell they were a little hesitant to make the leap.\u00a0 This is where the teamwork of the story really comes into play.\u00a0 Tasos could sense the same thing I was seeing, and came up with a plan.\u00a0 In the shipment of their gear to Vegas, they had some extra gear.\u00a0 After some negotiation, he told us to stop by after the show and he would see what he could do to get some gear in the hands of both of these clients.\u00a0 After the show, I was able to send both of these clients home with some 30 and 45-degree horns.\u00a0 \u00a0Not only that, but these clients were able to talk about their specific situations, draw diagrams, and get a great understanding of how to get the best fit out of the equipment.<\/p>\n

I am happy to say we have the first results from these horns.\u00a0 Mohave Broadband<\/a> was able to put up a 30-degree horn in an area where they were having clients with signal and interference issues. By adjusting their 90\/120 sectors, which even have beamforming,\u00a0 they were able to have the horn fit in their most troublesome area.\u00a0 Some of the troubles were customers who could not connect on a certain frequency very well, but others could.\u00a0 If the frequencies were changed the good customers became bad and vice versa.\u00a0 Once the horn was in place we noticed a couple of things.<\/p>\n

The first was customers in the 30-degree beam of the horn were able to connect at good signals and data rates. These were customers who were pointed right at the sectors before, not ones on the fringes.<\/p>\n

Secondly, due to the nature of the horn we were able to select from more channels due to the lack of sidelobes from the horns.<\/p>\n

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Customer links on the AP.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We could go on and on how the ePMP 2000 APs<\/a> with their noise filtering, and the “clean” pattern of the horn make the difference but that is not the focus of the article.\u00a0 The focus is how many separate pieces of the WISP community came together to help.\u00a0 From WISPA putting on the show to the willingness of Tasos and RF elements to help these customers, and the ability to sit down and draw out diagrams and antenna placement to get the best place to place antennas. For those of you who don’t attend tradeshows, this is one of the success stories with a few more to come on this blog.<\/p>\n

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This post is a huge shout out to Tasos Alexiou\u00a0from RF Elements.\u00a0 This story started out at WISPAPALOOZA Vegas this year.\u00a0 I had a few clients who have been fighting noise issues. 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