Any ETA for these devices? Any hope for this summer (northern hemisphere)?
Will the new 802.11ay sector allow to connect up to 15 (not only 8 ) existing 802.11ad clients? (already on customers roofs, too much work to replace them all - but can replace the AP)
I can’t explin myself how in the 60 ghz rush (ubiquiti is runnig faster and better) mikortik pubblish a video on youtube without supply any new info about the new hardware.
Any updates on these devices? Another year or two, or never (good excuses: covid, chip shortages)?
Bandwidth is plenty, but max 8 stations per AP is a serious limitation of the current devices.
Or, would it be possible to connect more than 8 MT 802.11ad stations to some other vendor’s 802.11ay AP (expensive, but available)?
If this secret hardware won’t be available for another year (or never), would it be possible for MT to allow connecting LHG60 stations (up to 30 of them) to the cnWave V5000 AP?
Or does every vendor have their own proprietary incompatible modifications of 802.11ad/ay which make such compatibility impossible?
Different radio chipsets should still be able to talk the same wireless protocols over the air.
Unless the vendors choose to play the usual vendor lock-in game again…
(not only 60GHz - 802.11ax is supposed to have standard TDMA making proprietary TDMA protocols unnecessary - happily mixing radios from different vendors, too good to be true?)
But do both sides have to support 802.11ay to connect more than 8 stations, or is it required only for the AP side? Will more than 8 old 802.11ad stations connect to a new 802.11ay AP?
Will mixed stations (some old 802.11ad, some new 802.11ay) connect to the same new 802.11ay AP? Or will I have to throw away all the 802.11ad devices and buy all new 802.11ay ones? (it’s almost impossible, devices on customers roofs can’t all be replaced overnight)
With 802.11ay having a bigger bandwidth, I’m surprised that it’s still limited to a Gigabit port. Although it would affect the depth of the unit, a SFP+ port might be handy..
I think these are only their first 802.11ay products. They will most likely be followed up by the larger dishes, and those are likely to have SFP+ interfaces.