What will be your response Mikrotik?
http://www.ubnt.com/airfiber/airfiber5x/
This year there is a lot new wireless stuff. Great news for us WISPs. MT uses the stuff they get from Atheros. Mimosa, UBNT and cambium tune up standard WiFi chips and UBNT and cambium make complete own designs. PTP wise they are not at the level of licensed gear but they approach. We will see a big performance boost this year to outperform DSL. I am very eager to see beam forming and mumimo working with affordable gear this year.rado3105 sorry for my sarcasm I use AirFiber and I m very happy with it
still there is no answer to AirFiber or new ubnt airprism technology
Speed is not the problem, interference is biggest problem but in that field Mikrotik has noting to offer
I guess the protocol will allow it but designing/aligning such a link will be a problem. You will need 2 hills with nothing between and extreme antennas.I would be interested to see the substance behind the "200km+" claim.
Yes. Still waiting for a new announcement in this direction. I guess it heavily depends on Atheros offerings.Based on claims and not experience, I have the impression that MT is left clearly behind in the wireless (and wireless management) department, with the distance between it and other vendors increasing. No prebuilt dual band, no high-gain 802.11ac integrated outdoor client devices, no mu-mimo, AC NV2 poorly implemented, no performance data on new devices (why?) etc etc. RouterOS remains their strong point though, as no other vendor offers anything close to that in terms of both features and ease of use.
With UBNT there seem to be some limitations as the .ac platform is not backward compatible now. So you cant easily replace APs.UBNT has potential in the features part with their Vyatta-based EdgeOS, but you have to configure almost everything past the basics via cli. Their wireless though, both with respect to silicon and management, is far superior. I do not know about real-world performance though.
Cambium delivers with their ePMP quite good allthough it is still 11n based it increases Capacity a lot due to a working GPS-Sync implementation. Mimosas PTP seem to be tested successfully by several WISPs. The PTMP Plattform is still only announced.Cambium and Mimosa are VERY interesting, but they can be expensive and the latter's products are still more of a promise than a tried and tested reality.
May be this is exactly what they are doing.Based on these examinations, I would expect MT to move more towards its strength which is low-cost routing, and leave wireless to the guys who have the resources (and the ability to design and build more of their own hardware) to do it better.
Do MTs really have better thoughput than UBNTs in PtMP scenarios? Are they more reliable? rOS v6 is still plagued with bugs and every so often with regressions...No this post was not meant to leave Mikrotik wireless...but to be better in wirelless...we need mikrotik and we prefere ptm devices Mikrotik with NV2 over UBNT (they are much cheaper, backward compatible, better throughoutput, minimal faultiness in comparison with UBNT)
Yes. This is a shame. They leave this field to others. I've a Mimosa B5 link running now. This is dual nstreme within one housing and pimped up to 802.11ac. MT had the opportunity to build something like this long ago but they did not put enough power into wireless development.MT had great superior DUAL Nstreme (many many years old technology, that could compete also in these times.....)...it is shame that they didnt tune it for many years....