This product seems to me like a defensive product against Mimosa, also they had
the spring WISPA show and needed something to announce other than the AF4x. Is
it shipping yet, does it even have a firm ship date? There doesn’t even seem
to be brochureware on the website yet.
I assume that was you that asked the same question on the UBNT Forum. Their
answer about working on an adapter for the Jirous dish and if they sent you a
sample maybe you could check if it fits the Dragonwave dishes, that seems
pretty naïve. Also seems to confirm this is playing defense against Mimosa.
And they seem to be thinking “disruptive” pricing to drive high volumes,
probably not thinking much about retrofits.
From: Brian Sullivan
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2016 5:05 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Convert Andrew Dragonwave dishes to N
I know they like white, but why then make it a connectorized radio?
That is one of the great things about the 5x, 4x, 3x + 2x, Bring-Your-Own(or
old)-Dish.
How many licensed links in use will need more bandwidth?
We just happened to have Dragonwave, who sells the most licensed links?
I would think a connectorized adapter for the most popular antennas may be
worth selling.
On 6/7/2016 4:13 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
Ubiquiti doesn’t seem to like having an “ecosystem”. Maybe that’s an Apple
thing that rubbed off on Robert. Along with an affinity for the color white.
From: Chuck McCown
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2016 3:59 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Convert Andrew Dragonwave dishes to N
The history suggests, anything I might make, that actually makes money, they
eventually will incorporate in some fashion.
From: Brian Sullivan
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2016 2:39 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Convert Andrew Dragonwave dishes to N
Maybe UBNT would like adapters designed for an array of licensed dishes?
This would help get the radios out to the masses faster.
:-)
Paging Chuck Macenski + Gary Schulz
On 6/7/2016 3:27 PM, Chuck McCown wrote:
Sure can. I would recommend SMA connectors though I think.
What does the radio have on it?
From: Brian Sullivan
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2016 2:14 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Convert Andrew Dragonwave dishes to N
So I assume there is no adapter available based on the crickets i've heard
from a few places.
Paging Chuck McCown- If we wanted 20 or 30 of these could you make up a
batch? I assume there would be others who would end up wanting them too.
On 6/7/2016 11:47 AM, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
If the dish's feed waveguide is cylindrical, yes you can use dual
polarity with it. The question is having the right adapter, which it sounds
like Chuck will build.
On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 8:07 AM, Brian Sullivan
<installe...@foxvalley.net> wrote:
UBNT is about to release their 11 Ghz radios to the market. I imagine
some operators like us may want to upgrade existing 11 GHz links to the UBNT
radio to gain more capacity.
Our licensed links are Dragonwave Horizon Compact and we use the Andrew
VHLP2-11-DW1 in the majority of links. Is there an adapter that will convert
these dishes to N connections? These dishes also allow us to rotate the radio
to take advantage of Horizontal or Vertical polarities as our license dictates.
Can they be run in dual polarity? Ideally, the adapter would have 2 N
connections, one for H + V. Here is a photo of the Dragonwave interface.
