This was the email I got from my client yesterday as he was considering the Ubiquiti AC products. Keeping in mind that he had to stop deployment to deal with some of the issues he was having with the 802.11n products due to his increased density and the problems we were having with XW Rockets locking up.
“It looks like a good product but I can't take the risk again, we've all ready decided on Cambium for all our new deployments plus their support is a million times better. Ubiquiti doesn't have time for us, Cambium seems to be on top of their game, when ever we have a question they answer it right away plus when we send them a million dollars a year of business it means alot more to them then it does to Ubiquiti.” Rory From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Rhys Cuff (Latrobe I.T) Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 5:16 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Rocket to ePMP migration “Our client deployed Ubiquiti Rockets in 1 city but is deploying Cambium ePMP in the next city” Hi Rory, did they have feedback as to the one the preferred? Thanks From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Rory Conaway Sent: Thursday, 30 April 2015 3:28 PM To: af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Rocket to ePMP migration This is a conundrum I’ve been battling with a client of ours. The newer Rockets with XW firmware can handle more clients but run into random lockups. The only difference between them and the Titanium’s is the port. The ePMP isn’t sexy but it does work and can handle more than 50 clients at the AP plus comes with GPS. Rocket AC’s may not need GPS as badly but their firmware is still beta and I haven’t seen any data from anyone with 4 on a tower. We won’t deploy them until they are backward compatible with 802.11n and there is a smaller CPE than the PowerBeam-AC. Mimosa isn’t out yet with PTMP so that option is out. Our client deployed Ubiquiti Rockets in 1 city but is deploying Cambium ePMP in the next city. We just deployed a tower over the weekend and used Rocket 5Ms with RF Armor shields but we won’t have density issues for a few months. We may replace it with Mimosa or Rocket AC’s if the compatibility issue gets resolved. Forklifting the entire area isn’t financially feasible for the revenue. But I do expect multiple options to be compatible with 802.11n at the AP level in a few months and that’s what we are planning for. Rory From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Rhys Cuff (Latrobe I.T) Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2015 8:37 PM To: af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Rocket to ePMP migration Depending on what vendor is doing the testing the results are different. Really hard to decide if I’m upgrading or side grading. Not so keen on the AC stuff, seems not to like interference and need super strong signal. Thanks Rhys From: Josh Reynolds [mailto:j...@spitwspots.com] Sent: Thursday, 30 April 2015 1:34 PM To: af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com>; Rhys Cuff (Latrobe I.T) Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Rocket to ePMP migration Its the same chip :P That aside, have not, so I'll back out of this now. On April 29, 2015 7:31:54 PM AKDT, "Rhys Cuff (Latrobe I.T)" <r...@latrobeit.com.au<mailto:r...@latrobeit.com.au>> wrote: Hello Have many of you Migrated from an Airmax network to ePMP? I can’t decide if I should take the plunge. I have about 2000 customers, any Rocket with about 50+ customers is staring to bend. Any thought please? Thanks :-) -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
