For Friday Fun this week, lets talk about density. Earlier this week, a new network operator asked about ePMP 2000 and how synchronization enabled frequency re-use, which enabled more APs to be using the same frequency without interfering with themselves. Check out the post HERE. On the thread, Chris Bay mentioned that getting 8 - 12 APs on a tower should be easy.
This led to a side discussion to see who had the MOST ACCESS POINTS on a single tower. So, who has the most APs on one tower? Show us your network density.
The post with the most APs on a tower is the winner of a shirt (a photo may be required). We will pick three other responses at random as winners also.
We are out of Evanston Wyoming. We have been testing the 450I 900 and then installed the ePMP 2000. Getting ready to change all our towers over to all Cambium equipment this year. Really excited.
No pictures handy at the moment, our two densest towers (for now - it's springtime here in NC) are:
WJSG FM radio tower, 350ft, with 6x 900MHz, 5x 3.65GHz, and 5x ePMP 5GHz. (plus three backhauls) (212 direct clients, 111 on towers fed by backhauls)
and
Bennettsville SC tower, 500ft, with 6x 900MHz, 4x 3.65GHz, 4x ePMP 5GHz, and 1x ePMP 2.4GHz. (plus 6 backhauls) (141 direct clients, 67 on towers fed by backhauls plus a school on a dedicated BH and a factory campus on another)
Both will be getting expansions soon, adding 2.4 and another 5ghz to JSG and two more 5GHz to Bennettsville.
Our other dense tower is 200ft atop Pea Ridge, which hosts 4x 900MHz Canopy, 3x 900Mhz PMP450, 4x 3.65 GHz, and 7 backhauls. (75 direct clients, 572 on towers fed by backhauls)
No pictures handy at the moment, our two densest towers (for now - it's springtime here in NC) are:
WJSG FM radio tower, 350ft, with 6x 900MHz, 5x 3.65GHz, and 5x ePMP 5GHz. (plus three backhauls) (212 direct clients, 111 on towers fed by backhauls)
and
Bennettsville SC tower, 500ft, with 6x 900MHz, 4x 3.65GHz, 4x ePMP 5GHz, and 1x ePMP 2.4GHz. (plus 6 backhauls) (141 direct clients, 67 on towers fed by backhauls plus a school on a dedicated BH and a factory campus on another)
Both will be getting expansions soon, adding 2.4 and another 5ghz to JSG and two more 5GHz to Bennettsville.
Our other dense tower is 200ft atop Pea Ridge, which hosts 4x 900MHz Canopy, 3x 900Mhz PMP450, 4x 3.65 GHz, and 7 backhauls. (75 direct clients, 572 on towers fed by backhauls)
very cool. How many subscribers are connected through those towers?
375 and the picture was 2 angles of the same tower. The subscribers are spaced between 12 UB AP's, 1 Backhaul feeding 9 other customers on a small Pop, Thats the 900Mhz antenna. Also still have 1 Canopy 5700AP with 6 customers on it. And 12 customers on very old cisco 2.4 AP's.
This site also uses 250-300Mbps every night off the backhaul.
