j2sw
join:2006-05-02
Williamsport, IN | reply to treichhart
Re: What software do you use to manage your connection speeds? Client isolation with PPPoE and mikrotik routers help quite a bit. I think it is a given in which every POP should have a router. We try to let the AP do AP stuff and let a router at the bottom do the ques and other such functions. |
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| said by j2sw:Client isolation with PPPoE and mikrotik routers help quite a bit. I think it is a given in which every POP should have a router. We try to let the AP do AP stuff and let a router at the bottom do the ques and other such functions. I've seen lot some WISPs that use a Mikrotik Routerboard at each tower sight (supporting three or four APs on the tower). On one I seem to recall, but could be mistaken, the RB pulled radius authentication from a primary radius server.
As for sending everything back to the NOC point, you'd still have to do that for CALEA compliance, although your could do it with a Mikrotik box at the tower site, or even an separate RB that feeds off the site's backhaul. |
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jcremin
join:2009-12-22
Siren, WI
kudos:2 | reply to j2sw
said by j2sw:I think it is a given in which every POP should have a router. We try to let the AP do AP stuff and let a router at the bottom do the ques and other such functions. I would say that is a lot better than relying solely on the CPE to do the limiting/queues, however I think having extra routers at each tower adds extra complexity and more points of failure. I have chosen in my network to keep everything as simple as possible. A tower does two things... 1) broadcasts to the client, and 2) backhauls to other towers or the central "hub".
I have my main site which has my PPPoE server, and a second site where my backup bandwidth is that has a failover server. |
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