Re:Wet Country Wireless; How British Weather Killed a Billio...
by walrus01 on Friday April 02, 2021 @01:16AM
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From a last mile 3.5, 3.65 and 5.x GHz band WISP perspective, wet weather isn't what killed that, but overall better radios from the competition, for PtMP access to AP radios:
ubiquiti (rocket M5 and 5ac, and associated family of radios)
cambium pm450 and cambium's 802.11n and ac based radios
mikrotik radios
various telrad, radwin and other vendors' 802.16e based stuff (now obsolete, but wasn't quite so in 2015)
those ionica things are so weird, rare, were manufactured in very low volumes and cost way too much. these devices are from a much earlier era, around the same time as the cambium (motorola) FSK100 series PMP radios. they never achieved any significant market penetration in the global low-budget WISP equipment market.
ubiquiti (rocket M5 and 5ac, and associated family of radios)
cambium pm450 and cambium's 802.11n and ac based radios
mikrotik radios
various telrad, radwin and other vendors' 802.16e based stuff (now obsolete, but wasn't quite so in 2015)
those ionica things are so weird, rare, were manufactured in very low volumes and cost way too much. these devices are from a much earlier era, around the same time as the cambium (motorola) FSK100 series PMP radios. they never achieved any significant market penetration in the global low-budget WISP equipment market.