There isn’t a good reference for the ePMP 4000 product lines, so I made one

Products ePMP
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The key point: the 6 GHz 4600 CPE are reasonably priced, while the 5 GHz 4500 CPE are outrageously expensive.

Edit: I had the wrong products and prices for the ePMP 4500 CPE.

Cambium ePMP 4000 (4th gen) Wi-Fi 6 AX PtMP product line
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So a couple things:

  • It looks like the price on the 4518 is for a bridge-in-a-box, so that price is actually for 2 units
  • The ePMP Force 4525 is missing, which is cheaper than the 4625

Might make it easier to read if the CPE’s are split up between 5Ghz and 6Ghz, as they aren’t even able to connect to each other… (I have tried)

Also, the 4500c and 4600c naming hurts my brain. One is a 5Ghz 8x8 AP, the other is a 6Ghz 2x2 CPE.

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That would be true if the Force 4525 didn’t exist and you had the right price for the 4518, but as it is, your key point is completely wrong.

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Yeah, the 4500c and 4600c naming is less than ideal.

But the 4600c is actually the ePMP Force 4600c, which identifies at as an SM/PTP radio, and the 4500c is simply the ePMP 4500c which means it’s an connectorized AP… that would almost make sense, except that the 4600 (with no C) is also a connectorized AP, but the 4500 (with no c) is an integrated AP. They should have named the 4500 “4500i” or something like that, and just stuck with 4500/4600 for the connectorized APs.

Then of course, there’s the Force 400c, which is the equivalent of the 4600c and is a complete oddball (as far as naming), along with the Force 425… but those are forgivable, since they pre-date the rest of the 4000 series by a couple years and are more inline with naming of the older generations.

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Whoops! I didn’t realize that the Force 425 and Force 4525 were different products. They have the same basic performance parameters, but the Force 425 is a PtP wireless bridge and the Force 4525 is a PtMP station.

Here is the updated graphic with the correct products for the 5 GHz 25 dBi dish CPE and the correct price for the 18 dBi panel CPE.

Cambium Networks ePMP 4000 (4th gen) Wi-Fi 6 AX PtMP product lines
Cambium Networks ePMP 4000 (4th gen) Wi-Fi 6 AX PtMP product lines1920×1323 231 KB

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I believe the Force 425 is internally the same radio as the 400c, and both should also be usable as PtMP stations as well as PtP bridges at this point (both were released long before the PtMP APs, so they were originally PtP only), but yeah, the Force 4525 has pretty much the same specs and was designed as a lower cost PtMP client radio (they do support PtP as well though).

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