[olug] Question about Motorola Canopy wireless equipment

[Sean Edwards]

This time last year, I was on contract to Motorola as
a software packaging engineer for the  Canopy ISP
software (RedHat 7.3) .  At that time there was
discussion of Mobile Canopy. 

Unfortunately, the contract ended the day before 
Motorola announced 7,000 lay-offs and the closing of a
manufacturing facility, and my contacts in the Canopy
group are no longer there.

-=Sean Edwards=-
cybersean3000 at yahoo.com

--- neal rauhauser <neal at lists.rauhauser.net> wrote:
> 
>     After those Ewoks are done saving Zion you'll
> need their help 
> cleaning up your microwave installation if you're
> operating in metro 
> Omaha (see .sig to understand this :-)
> 
>   Canopy and Trango are both inexpensive 5.8 GHz
> radios with 
> multimegabit throughput. They *must* have line of
> site, they can be 
> fussy about aiming, etc, etc, and Trango kept their
> cost down by making 
> radios WITHOUT retransmit scheme - whole load falls
> on OSI transport 
> layer, whoa unto you if there are other things
> operating in your 
> frequency. Can't speak to Canopy's methods, but I've
> got one site 
> running Canopy and its better than most wireless
> I've worked on, but I'd 
> doubt the survivability of it in a mobile,
> industrial type environment 
> like a combine.
> 
>    If you're looking for an inexpensive way to get
> telemetry from ag 
> gear  I have some questions for you:
> 
> 1. does it need to be real time, or can it be
> dropped off by the machine 
> once it gets close enough to a radio facility?
> 
> 2. if it is real time data how fast are you going?
> If you don't need 
> more than a 64k channel there are much better
> solutions, in terms of 
> central site cost & maintenance trouble than using
> Canopy.
> 
> 3. how many systems are you talking about tracking?
> Are you close enough 
> to Sprint/Verizon towers to use their internet via
> cell? Yes, it costs 
> monthly, but its predictable and wireless
> troubleshooting gets *very* 
> expensive.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Eric Johnson wrote:
> > Has anyone on the list used or evaluated
> Motorola's Canopy wireless stuff?
> > 
> > If so, what are the real pros and cons and
> performance limitations?
> > 
> > Our proposed use would be to provide a telemetry
> connection for equipment
> > in the field (literally in the field: agricultural
> equipment). The common
> > distance between nodes would be one mile or more
> and the central base
> > station could be many miles from the remote
> locations.
> > 
> > -- Eric Johnson
> > -- eric_j at oasis.novia.net
> > 
> >
>
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> >     they may as well have bussed in Ewoks to save
> Zion"
> > 
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