We’re about to replace two ePMP1000 APs that are currently using the SH-TP 5-60 horn antennas from RF Elements with two ePMP3000 APs using the same type of horns. Our understanding is that we’ll need to use two horns facing the same direction (fully overlapping) for each new AP, with chain0/chain1 on one horn and chain2/chain3 on the other horn. This is our first time using this dual horn type of deployment with the 3000s, and wanted to make sure we are doing it correctly. Has anybody else done this type of swap from one horn on an older AP to dual horns on a 3000?
Not necessary, you can arrange them for example back to back to cover 2 sectors (split sector).
The bad thing about this is that it won’t work as 2 separate sectors with N clients (they will share the AP performance), you need AC clients for the split sector to work (it’s like having 2 synced APs). Have already tested it the mentioned.
If you have only N clients then the antennas need to face the same direction. Keep in mind the arrangement of the ports (CH0 and CH2 need to be the same polarization as well as CH1 and CH3)
In our scenario, we have a mix of N and AC clients. We are not really interested in deploying it as “Split sector” with one AP acting as two sectors, we would rather deploy both horns facing the same direction serving as one sector. Technically, we could replace the 2 ePMP1000 APs with one ePMP3000 on split sector, but that would give us much less capacity than using two new APs (and it seems that this wouldn’t be a good idea anyways due to the N clients). As far as the antenna connections go, you’re saying that we’d want to hook up ch0/1 to one horn and ch2/3 to the other, with 0/2 and 1/3 matching polarizations? Thanks for the help!