The ADEC NSF Engineering Team met with Tachyon staff in San Diego, California, on October 9-10, 2001. Part of that meeting was devoted to a detailed discussion of the transportable CPE (Note: The term CPE or Consumer Premises Equipment replaces the term TAP or Tachyon Access Point. Apparently, another company has registered "TAP" as a service mark. Tachyon will use the term CPE until another marketing term is chosen).
The Tachyon presentation described the critical design issues for creating a mobile CPE environment. The presentation included performance, design and operational standards. Although Tachyon uses the term "mobile CPE", it should be noted that the equipment can only be used while the equipment is in a stationary position.
Tachyon equipment has been deployed in a wide range of mobile configurations which vary from primitive (antenna fixed to a shop-welded open trailer used at remote oil drilling sites in Texas) to hyper-sophisticated (the Wells Fargo mobile training facility which includes a $100K satellite aiming system and an on-board washroom). Tachyon demonstrated that successful solutions can be developed at relatively low cost.
Tachyon has developed an operator training program which can be completed in one day. Training can be conducted in San Diego or at the client's site. ADEC will have at least one of its engineering team trained by Tachyon.
A 32 page copy of a Power Point Mobile CPE presentation is available. This is a confidential document but ADEC has permission to share it with ADEC members. Please let me know if you would like a copy of the presentation and I'll send it to you by priority mail. We hope to have the presentation on a password protected ADEC web page shortly.
Tachyon will be providing ADEC with a list of vendors that have built successful mobile CPE solutions. I'll send you the vendor list as soon as I receive it.
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