Correct....DFS will be added when approvals are finalized. Happy 4th!!! Thanks, Ben
> On Jul 3, 2014, at 11:13 AM, Mike Hammett <wispawirel...@ics-il.net> wrote: > > The new rules for 5.8 UNII are mroe difficult. All of the new products will > have DFS, just that DFS certification takes a lot longer than non-DFS. THe > real question is about 5150 - 5250 since it's new, but no DFS. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > > > From: "Fred Goldstein" <fgoldst...@ionary.com> > To: wireless@wispa.org > Sent: Thursday, July 3, 2014 12:03:05 PM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] UBNT RocketAC spotted on FCC site > > On 7/3/2014 9:33 AM, Ben Moore wrote: > > $135 MSRP for rocket-lite. > > That's excellent. One of the contractors working with us recently > replaced a pair of old Motorola PTPs with NanoStation Ms. It's just a > camera, so it doesn't need much speed, so when I found its wireless side > converging at 270 Mbps (the bottleneck is the Ethernet), I turned it > down to a 20 MHz channel so it's merely 130 Mbps. And I moved it down > to DFSland, where the AP side properly moved the slider all the way to > the right at +14 (since the antenna gain is 16 dB). But lessee... the > old Motorola charged extra for allowing speeds above 25 Mbps, extra for > encryption, and cost about 50 times as much as the UBNT to begin with. > > Oh, but the PTP had a metal body, unlike the nano. But the new Rockets > are metal too. So really, it's embarrassing -- if you're the one still > trying to sell at the old Moto price points! > > Not to rain on the sunshine here -- but I did see one issue when I > actually read the FCC test report. It was only being tested for the > 15.247 band (5725-5850), not U-NII. At least the old PTPs had DFS (with > separate SKUs needed to use the DFS and non-DFS channels!), and the > plain NanoStation does. So will the Rocket-lite have U-NII support? > That could include either or both of the DFS bands and the new UNII-1 > band at 5150. > > I also notice that WISPA is petitioning to have the 15.407 (U-NII) rules > changed to be easier to meet. But the NanoStation, Rocket M, and > NanoBridge already do, at low cost, so does UBNT know more than its > competitors do, or are the new rules harder? > > -- > Fred R. Goldstein k1io fred "at" interisle.net > Interisle Consulting Group > +1 617 795 2701 > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > Wireless@wispa.org > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > Wireless@wispa.org > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
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