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Azotel SIMPLer's Subscriber Auto Notification / Disconnection (SAND) system has been enhanced to allow operators to throttle customers to the appropriate downlink/uplink rate after they reach their monthly bandwidth allowance limit, or after an invoice is overdue for a specified period of time. This allows more graceful handling of overdue customers, because they remain connected, but at a slower speed than their original service.

Until now three functionalities were available:

• Email Notification
• Disconnection
• Overage – automatic charge

An additional option has now been added giving Operators the ability to limit a customer’s bandwidth speeds (throttle) until more bandwidth has been added to their account.

Usage Graphs and Auto-Provisioning for MikroTik CPEs

One of the big advantages that SIMPLer has over competing systems is its  ability to automate many of the steps required during the provisioning process for radio equipment from many vendors. To further improve usability, this automatic provisioning capability has now been extended to cover radio equipment from MikroTik.

Support for usage graphs from MikroTik CPEs has also been added.

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At the WISPA Regional Meeting 2010 in St. Louis on July 22nd and 23rd, ImageStream introduced their new Samurai Express router which features redundant power supplies, 2 PCI, 1 PCIEx16, 1PCIEx4 slots, locking access door, two 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports with a quad core CPU.

After talking with JC Utter, ImageStream's CEO, I was very impressed with what this monster of a router could handle.  He says the Samurai Express is ImageStream's lowest cost router for applications requiring redundant power including high-speed multi-homed netowrks, DSL aggregation and a wide range of other midrange routing applications.  This router works where most Cisco 2800, 3800 and 7200 routers are used.

The sleak design really got my attention and the industrial feel of the unit gave me the sense that this is top quality hardware.

Network World has a good article on wireless network security myths.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/tech/2010/062110-tech-update.html

Recently there have been discussions on some lists about carrier redundancy.  I figured I would sum up some thoughts and add my own,

In today’s world of consolidation, takeovers, and cost saving measures carrier redundancy is something one should pursue with due diligence.  Below are some questions to know about your existing provider and any future providers. If you know this you can compare the differences between two providers.  By knowing the answer to these questions you can add two carriers which will complement each other.

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