Comparing 900 MHz Mobile Products

We're not tied to any particular vendor. 

Our objective is to identify the best technology for your situation and put together the solution that will work best.  So, what have we done?  We've gone out and acquired the available products in order to fully understand their capabilities (and short-comings) so that we can provide a credible recommendation to you.

In a mobile environment, we want to optimize coverage, speed and cost.  Security is always an issue, but that can be addressed with each of the products.  We've taken all our understanding of the technologies, the control mechanisms of each radio and our testing and simplified it in the chart below.  This is meant just to give you an overview and to help you understand that the differences in these products are substantial.  We'd be happy to help you with your situation.

 

Motorola

Canopy

WaveRider Alvarion MDS
Speed

256-900 Kbps

256K-1000 Mbps

256K-1.1 Mbps

100-400 Kbps

Modulation* DSSS DSSS FHSS FHSS
Interference Resistance Better Good Best Best

Site-to-site Handoff

built-in

No Yes Yes No
Coverage Least Good Best Best

 

*DSSS -  Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum

 FHSS -  Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum

 
   

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