Purewave claiming SDR because they can add proprietary extensions seems like Ubiquiti claiming to be SDR because they licensed Atheros driver code so they could make AirMax.
I always thought SDR meant the signal processing, anything to do with making sense of the RF, happened in software (FPGA counts!). Ettus Research's USRP is a example on TX/RX. RTL-SDR USB sticks on the RX only. E.g. If, in theory, the manufacturer can reprogram it to be a FM radio (maybe you replace the transciever/amps first though). On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: > Why is it not software defined? Because DAN owned the core WIMAX > software? Purewave claimed to have purchased the rights to make their own > mods, that was one of their claimed advantages over PMP320. Not sure what > Mercury would say now. But don't they have a proprietary enhanced (but not > LTE) version now? I don't see how they do that if it's not a SDR. > > I assume we are talking about the part of Purewave that went to Mercury, > not the part that went to Redline. > > If you mean was it designed to do both WIMAX and LTE with just a different > software load, no, they never claimed that AFAIK. > > > -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Englhardt > Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 12:30 PM > To: af@afmug.com > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] New feedback (Patrick Leary) > > > > PW is not SDR based >> > > So call their Distributors and tell them to change their announcements. > Just google Purwave and SDR and you find some. > > > > >
