We finished installing a new network in a customer's private aircraft hanger today.

All of the 100+ hangers at this private airport only have phone wiring from the 1950s

and the ADSL service over it is abysmal. The customer wanted better, so we installed

a Starlink High Performance dish. The hangar has several plexiglass skylights in it,

so we installed the dish right below one of them and it works perfectly and it is protected

from the hail and wind that occasionally occur here in Oklahoma.

Starlink High Performance Dish

We needed to provide both wired and wireless connectivity in the hangar.

We installed an MX68 firewall and two MR76 APs with Ventev directional micro-patch antennas.

We installed a 2 RU Tripp Lite wall mount cabinet to contain the firewall,

an APC SCL500RM1UC cloud monitored  UPS and the Starlink Power Supply.

We installed a 24 port CAT 6 patch panel in the top of the cabinet and

ran Category 6 ethernet cabling from it to the two APs and a Cisco phone.

We used the 2 PoE ports on the MX68 to power the MR76 APs. 

We used an MA-INJ-4 PoE injector to power the Cisco 8851 Phone connected to the customer's 

Webex Calling system. We used a Rackmount.IT rack mount kit for the MX68.

All of the network and power equipment, except for the APs and the phone,

fits perfectly in the wall mount cabinet. The UPS take up one rack unit and is a 500 VA model.

Everything powered puts a 28% load on the UPS and the estimated run time is 17 minutes.

Enough to carry the equipment through brown outs and the occasional power bump.

The two APs provide complete wireless coverage throughout the hangar.

Between the Meraki Dashboard, the Webex Control Hub the APC SmartConnect dashboard,

and the Starlink web site, we have complete remote visibility and management

of all the equipment installed at the site.

The High Performance Starlink dish is averaging around 350 megabits download

and 30 megabits upload speeds. The Starlink dish is configured for pass through mode,

which eliminates one IPV4 NAT boundary.  Since the customer has a Starlink Business Priority account, 

they were able to assign a IPV4 DHCP Public IP address to the firewall WAN1 interface,

which eliminates the IPV4 CGNAT boundary that Starlink normally employees.

This all results in another successful Meraki network deployment and another happy customer.

Wall mount cabinet open

Wall Mount Cabinet closed

Ventev Micro-patch antenna for the AP in the office

MR76 AP installed outside of the office

MR76 installed in the hangar

Aircraft in the hangar. AP and patch antenna installed in the upper right.

Office area inside of the hangar.