If he's wanting to make a "metro/muni/variousterm" "wireless" network though, he's very likely not going to be using "Wi-Fi" at all. Sure, many of the products may have a WiFi PHY layer, but for outdoor PtMP environments you're talking TDMA, not CSMA. He would be better served by some RF Engineering and vendor specific courses, IMO. (Just my $0.02 as having spent quite a bit of time in the WISP industry, who has watched these "metro/muni/variousterm" networks die over and over and over again.) Josh Reynolds CIO, SPITwSPOTS www.spitwspots.com On 06/02/2015 05:06 PM, labguy@gmail.com wrote:
With respect to vendor neutral training I would suggest starting with CWNP @ www.cwnp.com.
They specialize in providing vendor-neutral Wi-Fi training and certification. Instructor led training is available via certified training partners. In addition, there are study guides available for purchase. CWTS (lvl 0) - Intro - terms & lingo CWNA (lvl 1) - Wi-Fi 101 CWSP (lvl 2) - Wi-Fi Security CWDP (lvl 2) - Wi-Fi Design CWAP (lvl2) - Wi-Fi Protocol Analysis CWNE (lvl3)....
I recommend completing some or all the CWNP training to understand how Wi-Fi works. Once you understand how Wi-Fi works, you'll know how to design and configure a network to meet your design goals. Next, complement your vendor neutral training with applicable vendor specific training to understand their interface and specific nuances. Moving to another vendor is just a matter of learning where the nerd knobs are for configuring their product as you'll already know the fundamentals of Wi-Fi.
Kindest regards, Troy
-- *Troy Martin* | M 403.966.4370
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 2:18 AM, George Tasioulis <george.tasioulis@gmail.com
wrote: On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 8:23 PM, Hugo Slabbert <hugo@slabnet.com> wrote:
Doubt how much PoE you'd use for the MetroWifi stuff, but for the "small/medium events Wifi coverage":
Ubiquiti Networks.
Its cheap and it works great. Support sucks though.
Just watch it here if you're expecting to plug UniFi APs into standard 802.3af/at ports and get power. When I last interacted with them (customer equipment; year or two old, I believe) a lot of their WAPs are 24V, not 802.3af/at.
Only their UniFi AP & AP-LR are 24V, all the rest of their product line (AP-PRO, AP-AC as well as the outdoor units) are 802.3af or 802.3at compliant. You can easily overcome this limitation by using their 8-port ToughSwitch were each POE port can be configured to either 24V or 48V. IMHO Ubiquity's UniFi is a very decent solution when you want to keep budget low.
- G.