[AusNOG] 4G LTE bridges

Kai vk6ksj at westnet.com.au
Tue Jul 12 13:20:52 EST 2016 

Hi Jay,

I am in Broome, we have four remote offices 200 k's away whose only affordable available connectivity is mobile cell data.
Telstra have told me they don't allow static IP on the general mobile network.
Sat is availlable in these areas but mobile cell data is much more reliable, especially during wet season when the Sat can be down for days.
Telstra are keen to get us on the NPLS, but it's not cheap.

I recently installed a 16 element yagi at one of the remote sites, signal is great since installation, we use Telstra extranet APN but still can't get static and don't have any special routing hardware at head office to work the required magic with dynamic remote IP addresses.
What's your general experience with devices suggested so far?

Cheers
Kai

----- Original Message -----
From: "James McMillan" 
To:"Jay Dixon" , "Mike Everest" 
Cc:"ausnog at lists.ausnog.net" 
Sent:Tue, 12 Jul 2016 11:18:30 +1000
Subject:Re: [AusNOG] 4G LTE bridges

	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
[1]

	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 [2]

	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 
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  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 [4]] ON BEHALF
OF Matt Perkins
SENT: Friday, 1 July 2016 10:17 AM
TO: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net [5]
SUBJECT: Re: [AusNOG] 4G LTE bridges

	These work very well. 

http://shop.duxtel.com.au/product_info.php?products_id=402 [6]
http://routerboard.com/RBSXTLTE3-7 [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 [8]
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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[1]
https://www.telcoantennas.com.au/site/comset-cm210a-w-industrial-3g-4g-4gx-wifi-modem-router
[2] https://www.telcoantennas.com.au/site/teltonika-rut950-4g-router
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[6] http://shop.duxtel.com.au/product_info.php?products_id=402
[7] http://routerboard.com/RBSXTLTE3-7
[8] https://cradlepoint.com/products/arc-cba850
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