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Great that you're seeing the performance in your testing! Sorry about the unscheduled video appearance -- unfortunately I didn't have the time to apply the "blur" brush exactly everywhere. Let me know if you'd like that done and I'll take care of that for the final version :)
Ed -- Thanks for the healthy skepticism -- we get a lot of that. Yes, a single link in isolation at this range is relatively trivial, which is why we and our customers were interested in seeing what would break it. I doubt your no-smart-antennas 2001 example would have been as successful with one of its radios face down on the roof, pointing in the opposite direction, or blocked by an aluminum sign. We've seen that this kind of resilience makes backhaul network engineers very happy.
As for co-channel interference in a dense deployment, we've demonstrated that on our multi-site test network (with customers watching there, too) in Berkeley. That was before we had anyone on the team here to whom it had occurred that it might be useful to video the proceedings -- and since then we've been too madly busy on product work to worry about demo videos. Our capture from Italy a couple weeks ago was a bit of a bluebird.
I'll look forward to showing rather than telling as our deployments roll out over the next several months. Stay tuned, if you want to see the proof accumulate that not all wireless vendors lie.
Steven
We most certainly can do what we say.
Check out http://youtu.be/o_3GUKsQ4CQ to see for yourself.
It's called "Seeing Is Believing" for good reason.
regards,
Steven Glapa (Tarana's marketing guy)