SmashByte Wireless Articles
Technical and buying guides for smashbyte wireless.
Why WISPs Are Replacing Legacy Backhaul
Legacy T1s and cable modems cannot support modern fixed-wireless capacity. Here is what WISPs are upgrading to and why.
Dedicated Internet Versus Broadband for Tower Backhaul
Consumer broadband is cheap until it is not. Compare SLA, symmetry, IP addressing and support for tower backhaul.
Fiber Backhaul Versus Licensed Microwave
When does fiber win, when does licensed microwave win, and when do you need both?
When a WISP Should Upgrade From 1G to 10G
Capacity planning signals, oversubscription math and the business case for a 10G backhaul circuit.
How Many Public IP Addresses Does a WISP Tower Need?
A practical guide to subnet sizing, customer counts, CGNAT and public IPv4 planning per tower.
Static Routing Versus BGP for WISPs
When static routes are enough, when you need BGP, and what a growing WISP should plan for.
ASN and BGP Requirements for Growing WISPs
How to request an ASN, get IP space, build a routing policy and peer for redundancy.
Route Failover Between Two Backhaul Providers
BGP path selection, prepends, route maps and last-resort default-route failover.
WISP Tower Cybersecurity Checklist
A practical checklist for securing routers, management traffic and physical access at remote tower sites.
Securing Routers at Unattended Tower Sites
Default credentials, management VLANs, SSH hardening and out-of-band access for remote routers.
Protecting Tower Infrastructure From DDoS Attacks
Why WISP towers make attractive targets and how to mitigate volumetric and protocol attacks.