We have been testing a pair of Wireless Wire devices, very nice they are too.
It is posible to observe the beam Forming antennas in operation. Change the angle of one of the antennas, you will see the signal drop, then in a few seconds recover, as the automatic beam forming re focuses the signal.
My question is what will happen with p2mp configurations, where the clients are all at different angles from the AP?
Will the AP remember and dynamicaly point the beam to a different angle with every Client during every TDMA time slot? What about Multicast in this case?
Or will AP antenna fall back to some sort of “wide beam mode”, meaning less distance for p2mp?
Anyone have experience of 60GHz P2MP yet? If so how many clients over what distances and angles from the node?
One little gripe, I think having to buy L4 licenses just to use P2MP / AP is a bit cheeky when these little devices already cost us over 100$ each.
Thanks Normis,
An Answer like I was hoping for.
I can see many use cases where it will necessary to run AP and Mesh in 60 GHz campus backhaul type solutions.
You will sell more quantity for sure.
60G… “its wifi, but not as we know it captin!”
maximum clients allowed are 8 and in outdoor test very big problems with the hidden nodes when the clients are on the same line, if the far end client starts trasmtting to AP over 50mb/s other clients lower MCS and sometimes they drop connections. Max distance 200m with signal 40
Does this still work like plain old WiFi with collisions → retransmissions → more collisions → lower MCS → even more collisions (longer time to transmit → higher probability of collision)?
No RTS/CTS, no TDMA of any kind?
Next week, we plan to announce a free Level4 (AP mode) upgrade to all Wireless Wire users, so you can use the PtM functionality before we release dedicated AP models for 60GHz.
