Case Study: Brockton Housing Authority (BHA) restores fast, reliable campus connectivity in days with Cambium Networks PTP 650

Connecting People to Opportunity

Brockton Housing Authority (BHA), which provides housing and family self-sufficiency programs, suffered a Thanksgiving-weekend equipment failure that severed the main link connecting its multi-dwelling units and more than 100 administrative staff—disrupting email, web access, billing and data transfers. After other providers were unreachable, BHA engaged Boston-based Community WISP, who chose Cambium Networks equipment (PTP 650) and used the Cambium LINKPlanner tool to design a rapid replacement.

Community WISP modeled and installed Cambium Networks PTP 650 point-to-point links in about one day, restoring service, cutting typical restoration time from 14 days to 1 day, and delivering higher throughput (PTP 650 supports up to 450 Mbps), lower latency, and 24/7 monitoring with Dynamic Spectrum Optimization. The result: uninterrupted administrative operations, avoided overtime costs, and scalable, reliable connectivity for BHA—one link already running at 256QAM with plans to optimize the second.

Brockton Housing Authority (BHA)