This could be a really good opportunity for competition in the market but as always the licensing sceheme killed it.
With these license prices, it is a no go for us.
Swapping 6000 customers will cost 189000 USD + Basestation Pricing.
If your exisiting hardware is suiting your needs, why do you want to replace it?
upgrading to something better is never free, but $35 per CPE to have a reliable, stable and much improved MAC is a steal to me.
your looking at saving around half a million dollars to do a complete network upgrade..... I'd jump all over that. (I actually already ordered mine, just not 6,000 of them)
35$ per license is a joke for WISPs in 3rd world countries which is the main area where %90 of UBNT equipment is installed. Good luck.
Each to their own. :) If your UBNT gear is working fine, and if you're happy with UBNT - then there really is no reason to change. Heck, we still have a few pockets of 802.11g gear out there in select places, and if it's working well, it's working well - "not broke, don't fix".
This is for people who want to upgrade to Cambium because their existing UBNT or MikroTik networks aren't working well, or aren't reliable, or aren't scaleable. So, if you're among all the people who want to upgrade to Cambium but see all your existing UBNT or MTik CPE's as a stumbling block... then $31.50 per Client without a truck roll is AWESOME. :)
In your case though - if everything is working perfectly for you with UBNT, then "not broke, don't fix". :)
Yes, but only if you tell them you did the elevate conversion. My suggestion would be if a radio fails but still powers up, Just TFTP some UBNT firmware back onto it and RMA it. If it is just completly dead and does not power up I would just send it in. No need to mention the FW change for a hardware failure.