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

[bigj at flatwan.net]

Oh we don't take it as a commercial, Mike. I'm glad you spoke up to state
your company background and offerings. I'm also glad you quit lurking.
haha

--
Jon

> 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: tf



ug-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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