A blog about high capacity, secure and reliable wireless connectivity solutions

Welcome to the SideBand Blog

This is a resource designed to let our team share pertinent and useful information about our capabilities. It is our intent that we will provide information about wireless technology, latest trends, how-to’s regarding design and/or installation and new advances in the wireless industry.

We hope to engage you and encourage your comments and opinions.

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06/24/2011

Enhancing WLAN Capacity

Adding capacity to existing WLAN designs is sometimes challenging but there are some keys to success:

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02/7/2011

Best Practice Tip #1 - Troubleshoot…. Not Re-Boot

Customers can help support themselves when their system is experiencing problems or is not functioning at all.

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01/17/2011

Smart and Diligent Diagnosis Always Works

SB was contracted by another microwave company to resolve a problem for one of their customers. They were having throughput issues and they thought it was related to their mounts swaying in the wind.

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01/3/2011

What changed?

Our customer was having trouble getting traffic across a point to point microwave link. We ran test sets across the link at maximum speed with no problems. The customer called back with the same issue and we tested successfully. Looking at their network, we asked what has changed? ‘Nothing’ was the answer.

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12/20/2010

Unintended Interference Issues

One of our maintenance contract customers was having problems with their slightly dated link. It would cease to function occasionally, and it would not come back, or even be accessible until we reset it.

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12/3/2010

Eliminating Unnecessary Equipment is Often a Good Thing!

A company was having trouble with their security cameras which were installed on an island. It was a solar powered setup and we had installed a radio which required minimal current draw to transport their feeds.

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10/22/2010

Wireless LAN – Interference Issues

When it comes to WLAN interference issues the worst offenders are analog video senders. These devices come in a few different flavors; security cameras, baby monitors and A/V transmitters are the most common.

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10/8/2010

The Need for Precise Alignment of Microwave Systems and Rooftop Management

Not long after installing a microwave for a large insurance company, I was back to service the link.

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09/24/2010

The Need for Rooftop Management

The Field Operations technicians were in the office for our customary Monday morning company meeting when a call came in from a customer reporting that the licensed radio link for a local hospital was down

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09/10/2010