[Tfug] DakotaCom and Gain Merger. Was Simply Bits? - Strike 1

[Michael Bernstein]

Since you asked...

Simply Bits (locally owned and operated) purchased the network infrastructure of bbl a couple of years ago.  Then the entire Tucson based wireless network was upgraded in '05/'06 by Simply Bits.   Since then we have quietly aquired other wireless companies and several others have chosen to close up shop, or merge with other business to try and survive. 

The SB Wireless network infrastructure is now fed from multiple tier one providers in multiple locations (so you are both Carrier and Location diverse [BGP/IBGP])

The SB backbone rings now consist of Licensed DS3 links and Fiber, with OSPF running between all of the QOS enabled Tower routers (should be about 30 by years end) from the backbone towers to the Net, or our 2,500 sqft. Co-Lo facility, is typically under 5ms!.

All of the towers are geo-synced to the high resolution 1-pps. Signal from the GPS infrastructure which insures that all of your towers are either talking to subscribers, or listening at the same time.(So we are not stepping on ourselves)   

Most of our "Low Speed :)" (1Mbps-7Mbps) customers are installed with a hard back dish that resembles a DirecTV dish pointed to one of our towers. They have an excellent rear rejection and we have found the manufacturing tolerances to be superior to mesh style parabolic dishes of the same size.   We utilize Motorols Canopy Equipment for our Customer Premise Equipment(CPE).  Simply Bits is now the #1 Motorola Authorized Canopy Solution Provider (ACSP) in Arizona.

Our "Higher Speed" (8Mbps-155Mbps) customers are typically engineered links and the antenna form factor varies as a result of this, there are many factors that can affect this, distance, power, frequency, terrain, local RF interference, Etc.  So these will usually range from 1.5'-2' foot square panels, or 2'-8' Radome enclosed dishes.

Our customer base has been doubling each year, so we are always looking for the best and brightest in the field(Support, Install, Data Center Mgt, Network Mgt, RF Engineers, Etc, so if resumes are getting dusted off... ;)

I apologize if you read this as a commercial, that was not my intent, our network speaks for itself and I thought that this list might want to know about something technical about it, we have built a great team that has been working very hard for the last year and a half to build Tucson a wireless network that we can all be proud of, right here, in our own back yard.

No wires, No strings...

Mike Bernstein
Simply Bits, LLC.
5225 N SABINO CANYON RD
TUCSON AZ  85750-6435
www.simplybits.com
MikeB at SimplyBits.com
520-545-0402 voice
520-232-5401 fax
Lat:32°18'7.72"N Lon:110°49'28.11"W Earth


-----Original Message-----
From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org] On Behalf Of johngalt
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 11:18 PM
To: Tucson Free Unix Group
Subject: Re: [Tfug] DakotaCom and Gain Merger. Was Simply Bits? - Strike 1

From: "keith smith"
> Recently my employer told me I needed to sell to fund my
> position. My response: "If I could fund my position I
> would not need you!".  Got a blank stare.


Is your resume up to date?


Back to the topic of WISPs:

About dark gray offset Parabolic WISP dish antennas seen all
over town.... are these specific to a provider, who?

Maybe I just answered my question... Ya know, thought I saw
one on the very top of former e-city/bblabs antenna tower
location on south Park.

Gain used to use prime focus parabolic antennas with wire
dishes. do they still use those?

Who offers WISP service  in Tucson?

Dakota/Gain
Sprint
Simply Bits?


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