This is a great news :)
Thank you! Hope we'll see many news in a short time!
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Sakid Ahmed wrote:
....so you should go ahead and buy the 2.4 gear cause we love when customers buy our products :)
LOL - this is why companies like Cambium are always so hesitant to ever give a hint of the next generation of gear. It's very important to keep the sales going today, to help pay for the development of tomorrow. :) Tech companies have to be careful not to 'Osborne' themselves... :)
In any case - the short answers are:
1) In 2.4ghz, there's no planned 'beamforming' changes coming, so keep buying/deploying.
2) Plus, the current ePMP SM's will be compatible with ePMP 2000, so keep buying/deploying.
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@ninedd wrote:@Sakid Ahmed wrote:
....so you should go ahead and buy the 2.4 gear cause we love when customers buy our products :)LOL - this is why companies like Cambium are always so hesitant to ever give a hint of the next generation of gear. It's very important to keep the sales going today, to help pay for the development of tomorrow. :) Tech companies have to be careful not to 'Osborne' themselves... :)
In any case - the short answers are:
1) In 2.4ghz, there's no planned 'beamforming' changes coming, so keep buying/deploying.
2) Plus, the current ePMP SM's will be compatible with ePMP 2000, so keep buying/deploying.
the best part about all the new faster toys, we don't have to change any of the CPEs to get the extra speed... yessss!
for those thinking about wait for the new APs, don't you can use the epmp2000s with the 1000s i'm sure. so far cambium has made everything snychable, don't see why that would change especially if the 1000s CPEs work with the 2000. plus who wants to wait to make money?
I hope eventually these techs find there way down to the 2.4 and 900 bands, even with small channels, the bulk in overall system speed would be great! (if its possible that is)
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I would suggest you at least consider this for 2.4 GHz. It is more prone to hear interference than 5 GHz, and is vital in wooded areas, so anything to stand out on that band would fill a niche. Heck, finding a way to do "matrix A" with the Atheros chipset would be a neat trick too. Lessee, 10 wavelengths spacing at 2.4 GHz is about 1.3 meters, still possible...
I an understand why the larger antennas needed would not be practical on 900 MHz!
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Is it going to still be using the same sector that's currently available, or is there going to be a new sector needed to use beamforming?
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the EPMP 2000 has a separate smart antenna for the beam steering. if you google around you can find imagines of it and a video presentation .
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Hey Matthew,
Cambium shortly will be shipping a new ePMP 90/120 degree antenna which will provide better coverage (about 3 dbi) along with allowing the new "Smart Beamforming" antenna to attach to the bottom for proper alighnment.
Jano
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Will there be new ePMP 2000 SM's? I was hoping for a speed upgrade by changing out the SM for something new.
They said there won’t be new SMs and you’ll have speed bump thanks to the lower noise floor the beamforming technology can provide… But nothing “official”, only some post from Cambium employees in the forum
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I'm really looking forward to this. While I wish we had this on the AP TX side also, this is defintely a step in the right direction. These wide-pattern antennas up on towers/hilltops hear so much noise, that narrowing the beam down for AP RX is genius to hold symmetrical performance modulations. Nothing like hitting an SM at MCS15, and RX at the AP at MCS9 right fellas?
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