AFAIK, that is true. The Mimosa B11 is a Frankensteined WiFi chipset, but
the AF11 is somewhat iterative on the original AirFiber. If Chuck is still
around, I believe the whole AF series were done by Motorola/Cambium alumni.
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On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 6:43 AM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ubiquiti has used mass market WiFi chips in most of their product line but
> not typically in the airFiber line which I believe is built around discrete
> A/D, processor and FPGA chips. Mimosa is probably the one that built a
> licensed radio around a WiFi chipset. More conventional licensed radios
> have their own chipsets from companies like MaxLinear.
>
>
> https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170227005339/en/Aviat-Networks-Selects-MaxLinear-New-WTM-4000
>
>
>
> Check out the Wikipedia article about MaxLinear and their recent
> acquisitions, they are quite the powerhouse now.
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* AF <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Mike Hammett
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 27, 2019 8:12 AM
> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]>
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Higher power 18Ghz radios..
>
>
>
> What Ubiquiti did with the AF11 was use the cheapest chip they could find
> that met some other requirements.
>
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> *From: *"Mathew Howard" <[email protected]>
> *To: *"AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <[email protected]>
> *Sent: *Tuesday, February 26, 2019 2:26:18 PM
> *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Higher power 18Ghz radios..
>
> Interesting, so I'm guessing that they're able to reduce the noise to an
> acceptable level at that high of power by using a narrower channel... kind
> of like what Ubiquiti did with the AirFiber 11.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 1:54 PM Tim Hardy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> Just an FYI..
>
> According to this chart, the occupied bandwidth is only 64.5 MHz so you
> will be losing capacity vs radios that occupy the full 80 MHz bandwidth.
> The DW radio will have to be coordinated and licensed in one of the 80 MHz
> channel allocations as there are no FCC channel plans between 51 MHz and 79
> MHz. There are only 4-channel pairs available at 80 MHz and its difficult
> to coordinate multiple pairs in many areas as a result. Finally, while
> these power levels are impressive, they don't tell the full story and you
> really need to compare the system gain values at the desired modulations.
> The DW 64.5 MHz radio’s system gain at 2048 QAM is 83 dB vs. the WTM 4100
> 80 MHz radio’s system gain at 2048 QAM which will be 73.5 dB.
>
>
>
> On Feb 26, 2019, at 12:19 PM, Peter Kranz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> +31 is the advertised 2048QAM output on the HP variant. Dragonwave
> contacted me offline and is indicating a March availability. Here is the
> table of power output levels for that radio. It should also support
> 4096QAM, but I’m not sure if that’s available in the software yet.
>
>
>
> <image001.png>
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>
> *Peter Kranz*www.UnwiredLtd.com <http://www.unwiredltd.com/>
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> Mobile: 510-207-0000
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>
> *From:* AF <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Ken Hohhof
> *Sent:* Monday, February 25, 2019 8:27 PM
> *To:* 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <[email protected]>
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Higher power 18Ghz radios..
>
>
>
> Looks like PTP820c is only +16.
>
>
>
> You’re talking about xmt power actually at 2048QAM modulation, right? +31
> is hard to believe.
>
>
>
> I remember hearing that Broadcom was supposed to have a chip with adaptive
> digital predistortion for high xmt power also 4096QAM not sure if that
> became real.
>
>
>
> *From:* AF <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Peter Kranz
> *Sent:* Monday, February 25, 2019 6:51 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* [AFMUG] Higher power 18Ghz radios..
>
>
>
> Dragonwave announced over a year ago the Harmony Enhanced 18HP, with +31
> TX power at 2048 QAM, but have never made it to production as far as I
> know. From the top of my head, here are some of the major radios TX power
> in 18 Ghz band:
>
>
>
> Dragonwave Harmony Enahcend HP – 31 <Vaporware?>
>
> Dragonwave Harmony Enhanced SP – 22
>
> Bridgewave Navigator – 19
>
> Aviat WTM 4200 – 17.5
>
> SIAE AlfoPlus2 – 17
>
>
>
> Curious if anyone is aware of an 18Ghz dual core radio capable of higher
> TX power at 2048QAM? It’s quite difficult to license 6Ghz or 11Ghz paths in
> my market.
>
>
>
>
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