At 9/14/2012 11:38 AM, Matt Hoppes wrote: >They are focusing on their core product (wireless). The team there has >not been taken to any other projects. Rather, the income from the >wireless has generated enough profits that they can hire NEW teams in >order to be able to expand their product lines. > >And why not? A router is a perfect fit. So now we have: > >* Wireless Equipment >* Switch that can power equipment >* Router >* Hotspot equipment >* Hi-Cap Backhaul > >Really, Ubiquiti is staged to clean-up the WISP market. They are a >one-stop shop. They make equipment and make equipment that works well.
Another way to say it: This is war, MikroTik is their enemy, and they've taken the gloves off! For a while there was detente between Califonia and Latvia. MikroTik owned the router space, while Ubiquiti owned the packaged radio and antenna space. Sure there was some overlap, but hybrid integrations like UbTik were natural. Then MikroTik underpriced UBNT with its SXT radios. So now UBNT is fighting back big time. The winner, of course, is the customer. More bang, fewer bucks. MikroTik, of course, has not finished playing its cards. CCR is going to be interesting, basd on the 36-core Tilera processor. If they can keep RouterOS stable on that, then it will move into new markets. I am not concerned about the limits of software-based routing. If I were Cisco, I'd be worried! New processors have a lot of speed and I/O capability. There are some high end applications where hardware acceleration is needed, but that's a narrow, if lucrative, market. As far as features are concerned, Linux has a pretty good set of capabilities already, and keeps accreting more into its GPL ecosystem. The proprietary stuff is the polish, like the UI. I am not happy, for instance, with how RouterOS supports MEF Carrier Ethernet. I don't think they've heard of it yet. The raw pieces are probably there but assembling it onto an interface is a real puzzle. Nor does it seem to be on UBNT's radar, though it's a huge market. Maybe they've noticed how cheap those switches are and just don't want to compete in that space. But it's not as if EdgeOS is being written from scratch. Nor were AirOS or RouterOS. They're all swimming in a GPL pool. The trick is to integrate it and match it to the hardware. -- Fred Goldstein k1io fgoldstein "at" ionary.com ionary Consulting http://www.ionary.com/ +1 617 795 2701 _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
