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TheBrothersWISP 19 – US MUM 2014, New Gear, Impressions

So juuuust after the 2014 US MUM, Greg Sowell, Justin Wilson, Mike Hammett, Tom Smyth, JJ Boyd, and special guests Thomas, Wayne, Gabe, Drew, and Brian join us.

Thomas is a genius engineer/instructor from Slovakia who currently works for RF Elements.

The audio is a little wacky since we recorded from Tom’s phone, but hopefully I’ve cleaned it up enough to be tolerable…if not, suffer in silence 😉

Some of the things discussed:
Mimosa gear
CCR 1072
CCR Status Update
New Gear – FTC media converter, New CRS, cAP, mAP
The Dude
NetXMS monitoring system – Latvian monitoring system
CAPsMAN – centralized management
Mikrotik Partitions

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TheBrothersWISP 18 – GPON, GAON, AirFiber, New Mikrotik, New Ubiquiti, Mimosa

It’s been ages since we’ve gotten together, but we had a pretty good showing. Greg Sowell, Tom Smyth, Justin Miller, Mike Hammet, and JJ Boyd talk shop.

Some of the things discussed:
GPON
airFiber/New Ubiquiti Gear
New Mikrotik gear – Thanks for assembling everything Andrew Cox!
New Mimosa gear
Observium monitoring tools
Cacti monitoring tools
A little about IPTV and content rights.

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TheBrothersWISP 16 – Ham Radio, WISP Business Ideas, SDRs

We had the whole crew! JJ, Justin, Andrew, myself(Greg), and a special guest Bryon Jeffers from Missouri. Bryon did radio work for years, and now owns and operates a WISP. He is also heavy into Ham(I prefer bacon).

Some of the things discussed:
School E-Rate Program
JJ’s Software Defined Radio (SDR)
Codec2
FDMDV
FreeDV
BGP Community Strings
Mikrotik RB260GS switch – SFP port on back
My homemade fiber tester.
Unifi API 1, 2, and 3.
Callmanager express, 6 analog ports, elastix VM on the cheap.
Upcoming Mikrotik MUM
Upcoming WISPAPALOOZA

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