Ubiquiti claimed carrier grade, too.
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Jon Auer <j...@tapodi.net> wrote: > 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. >> >> >> >> >> >
