Point to Multipoint Backhaul

[Ick]

I have my office building (NOC) which I backhaul to a grain elevator. Off of the grain elevator, I have 1 ap and 3 repeaters to other ap's. Currently I am running a 5G AP at the NOC with 4 antenna's on the elevator. We are out of 5G channels on the elevator.

At the moment, all of this is running thru a WRAP which is probably not enough horsepower. I would guess at the moment 120 combined clients on all 4 ap's.

I installed a pc based router running 2.10.0 4693 with two Routerboard 11's and CM9's (going to feed another ap in another direction). The computer locked up within 3 hours. We did a thruput test on the bench from the pc to a WRAP and locked it up within 50 seconds. I'm thinking not stable enough.

My real question is will the WAR board be enough to last me a while? Is it enough horsepower to do what I need?

[lonnie]

The WAR board can deliver in excess of 40 mbps with compressible data. We are using it in a repeater micro cell situation. The nicest example site has a 5.x incoming feed, 5.x outgoing feed to another repeater, another 5.x outgoing feed to another repeater, and a 2.4 AP for local customers.

Another site has a 5.x incoming feed, 5.x outgoing feed to another repeater, and 2 AP's at 2.4 GHz for more clients.

All of these sites are doing bandwidth control, DHCP and now DNS.

We are using VDS from several school sites to carry their traffic to their central site and ultimate private Internet feed. Using VDS gives them a flat address space but we can have the LAN routed. Using WAR 533 boards we get in excess of 20 mbps through the tunnel which runs over our 100 km network which has 7 physical repeater sites all tied together. We got less than 3 mbps with WRAP boards on the same LAN and about 2 mbps when we used VDS, since the WRAP is so under powered.

So, to answer your question about will it last for a while -> it should but then if your needs expand so much that it doesn't, you will have enough revenue to upgrade. It definitely has enough for what you are doing now and in the short term future.