450m interference cancellation license key

You can run a Link Test with Multiple LUID’s aka a mass link test by using these settings:

It can be really helpful to compare aggregate AP performance when trying out different channel widths, or in this case, seeing what meaningful uplink performance you have with and without the interference cancellation feature enabled.

Do we know if this is also going to work on the PMP 450m 3.6GHz, non CBRS?

Still not available from distributors.

Internally there’s some stuff going on regarding this feature key. I’d suggest that you talk to your RSM for updates and availability.

I’ve been told there’s a 450m 3GHz version in the works… but I don’t know when it’s going to be available.

Has there been any hint at the cost for this? Seems to be a bit out of sequence to offer it not give a way to actually continue to use it. Maybe they’ll issue temp keys or something in the interim

acb

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So again… talk to your RSM about this feature… I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised with the response!

The countdown clock is down to less than 24 hours, I’m debating whether to disable the feature or just let the clock run out and see what happens. I’m kind of curious to see, but if it turns into a brick I’ll have some angry customers.

Rumor is the price might be very attractive, but I can’t get an answer from anyone. Maybe with the WISPA show next week everyone’s focused on that.

Did you talk to your RSM? I talked to mine and he gave me the pricing. He asked me not to share it publicly.

Is this like the Wizard of Oz where Dorothy was always able to go back, she just needed to learn there’s no place like home? But to answer your question, I emailed Sergiu, even emailed Matt, and my distributor sales rep has left a VM for the RSM as well.

Maybe when the 30 day countdown gets to 0 a message will pop up saying surprise, you don’t need a license key after all, here’s a gift from Cambium.

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So is anyone using this, and seeing a benefit?

My take on this is that if you’re benefiting upload interference cancellation, you likely weren’t able to take advantage of upload MU-MIMO capabilities anyway…
But if your customers already have good upload capacity, then it would not be beneficial.

Am I correct in this assumption?

Many apologies guys… I was traveling overseas this week and haven’t caught up on everything yet. If you need to renew the trial key, please email me directly with your MAC address and I can reset the trial period. Stay tuned for announcements on this topic.

@Neil_Capell - This is not exactly the case, there will be situations where higher uplink modulation and stability (enabled by interference mitigation) far outweighs any benefit from UL MU-MIMO. Conversely, there might be situations where UL MU-MIMO is providing benefit that outweighs benefits seen by mitigating interference… which is why I thought the idea to include a trial period was so important to releasing this feature. That way, you can see for yourself which way is more beneficial to the sector.

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Thanks @CambiumMatt for the clarification, I greatly appreciate that.

I can’t find the enable trial option , FW 22.1.2 was it removed ?

It’s not in R22.1.2. It’s in R22.2

I read the 22.1.2 release notes and it was there. As this was an update of that firmware ?

It is not available in R22.1.2. While R22.1.2 came out after R22.2, the interference cancellation feature was first introduced in R22.2. PMP 450 Interference mitigation - #10 by CambiumMatt

You should only run R22.1.2 on 3GHz/CBRS radios.

When R24 is released, interference mitigation (currently in “demo mode” in R22.2) will be there for 5GHz 450m. The CBRS updates (included in R22.1.2) will also be there, so R24 will be the release everyone should go to. We are expecting that to be released in the coming weeks.

Sorry for the confusion on this, but CBRS changes were needed and didn’t affect the 5 GHz radios, so we created a software branch to address that.

Thank you for clarification, is there any more info on costing of this? and will it be a perpetual license?