[AusNOG] 4G LTE bridges

[James McMillan]

Hey Jay,

Have a look at these, as long as you don’t need to use the Telstra.corp APN you should be right, though from what I’ve been told, support for the alternate APN should be coming.

https://www.telcoantennas.com.au/site/comset-cm210a-w-industrial-3g-4g-4gx-wifi-modem-router

These devices are cheaper and more ‘all in one’ if that’s what you’re after, although they are less rugged, and not DIN rail mountable.

https://www.telcoantennas.com.au/site/teltonika-rut950-4g-router

Both work well, and they support B28 – FDD 700.

Not too many other devices seem to be out at the moment that support the 700MHz band.

James


From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Jay Dixon
Sent: Friday, 1 July 2016 12:48 PM
To: Mike Everest <mike at duxtel.com>
Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] 4G LTE bridges

Thanks Mike!

for my purposes i don't necessarily need the 'bridge' function to give me a public routable address, It'll end up just being an alternative outbound path to establish an IPSEC tunnel on or provide some basic web connectivity for users.

all handy info to know though. just looking into some alternative solutions thanks to Telstra's efforts yesterday! :D

On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Mike Everest <mike at duxtel.com<mailto:mike at duxtel.com>> wrote:
Except that it won’t implement a bridge between LTE network and Ethernet (if that’s what you want)

If it’s a public routable address on your Ethernet device that you’re after, you’ll need to implement an extra step with the SXT-LTE like make a tunnel between the LTE side and some cloud router, then bridge that tunnel to the Ethernet interface – so you can run pppoe client on the connected device, for example, connected to some cloud-based pppoe server.

There are a few MikroTik-based alternatives that implement a similar functional result as SXT-LTE using miniPCI-e modems (as already suggested by others ;) but these will have similar limitation from perspective of bridge functionality :-}
Happy to explain further if anyone asks ;)

Cheers!

Mike.

From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net<mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net>] On Behalf Of Matt Perkins
Sent: Friday, 1 July 2016 10:17 AM
To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net<mailto:ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] 4G LTE bridges

These work very well.

http://shop.duxtel.com.au/product_info.php?products_id=402
http://routerboard.com/RBSXTLTE3-7

Matt.


On 1/07/2016 10:12 AM, Jay Dixon wrote:
Hi all,
Can anyone recommend a good 4G bridge for use in an enterprise environment?

I'm after something along the lines of the Cradlepoint ARC-CBA850<https://cradlepoint.com/products/arc-cba850> but trying to avoid using an external USB modem, i just seem to be struggling to find something that supports the Australian specific LTE bands.

planning to use it purely just as a basic bridge - the smarts of failover/routing/security etc will be handled by something else (likely an SRX), currently have a Telstra contract so interested in those bands specifically but would be nice to support voda/optus LTE if there's something that will do all the bands.

three questions really...
 - does anyone use anything similar they can recommend?
 - has anyone used one of the cradlepoint ones in AU and had a good experience with it?
 - am I just chasing a dead end, and will using a USB Sierra Aircard be fine anyway?

thanks!
 -Jay



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