@Mike99 wrote:
Personally, I'm under the impression that the deliberately slow down ePMP improvement to not affect PMP450 sales.
By sector, with MU-MIMO (not so massive for now since the don't seem to be able to take advantage of all the possibilities of the 450m), ePMP AC with standard MU-MIMO could probably have similar performance than current 450m performance and from a marketing aspect, you can have your low end line to have similar performence to your high end gear.
If Cambium was alone on the market, that would make sence. ePMP can compet with Ubnt AC gear, yes. Not sur about MImosa but I will probably give those gear a try. The support GPS sync + AC + MU-MIMO, Cambium should do the same.
Anyway, true market challenger is not Ubnt or Mimosa but FTTx . Why invest 4 X 5000$ AP + hundred of 500$ SM (>70 000$) when I can pass fiber through a whole town for the same price (or maybe even less) ? Yeah, PMP450m is great but no body care about that when you can pass fiber for the same price or have a 50$ radios that not great but work . ePMP line make sense, PMP450 ? Not sure.
ePMP line was welcome because of great feature for the price, Cambium should focus on this line, ePMP AC with 8x8:8 + beam forming + beam steering. Around 1000$ by AP, just like current 2000 AP with beam forming, 100$ SM and maybe 30$ for the customer router. Like I already write on this forum, I was relly desapointed with ePMP 2000 annoncement and for now, continue to invest on fiber instead of wireless.
Taking all that is ePMP today and overlaying with AC based MU-MIMO, non contiguous channels etc is the plan we are working on. Its a challenging task as we will need to once again optimize something designed for pure indoor operation in an outdoor environment but we are up for the challange :)