Fred, I think one aspect of the new 15.407 (U-NII) rules that UBNT may not yet meet is the 40MHz filter requirement on both ends of the 5725MHz-5850MHz spectrum, which as I understand it, will effectively limit the usable range to 5765MHz - 5810MHz. Or maybe they already have the filter? In any case, the range reduction will still mean replacing some existing deployments with different frequency gear, if I'm interpreting the new rules correctly. :(
Thanks, Adam -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Fred Goldstein Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2014 1:03 PM To: wireless@wispa.org 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
