Hi Jason -
You're correct...we have two, actually three, flavors of all-outdoor radios for
11 GHz:
ALFOPlus - this is a single carrier 1024QAM radio using a 56 MHz channel. This
will provide 435 Mbps full duplex / 870 Mbps aggregate
ALFOPlus1 - this is a single carrier 4096QAM radio using an 80 MHz channel.
This will provide 711 Mbps full duplex / 1.422 Gbps aggregate
ALFOPlus2 - this is a dual carrier/XPIC 4096QAM radio using 2x 80 MHz channels
for 1.422 Gbps full duplex / 2.844 Gbps aggregate
We can also pair the ALFOPlus2 with our 80 GHz 10Gbps ALFOPlus80HDX radio for
multi-band support.
Let me know if any questions or you need additional info.
Thanks,
Joe Schraml
VP Sales Operations & Marketing
SIAE Microelettronica, Inc.
+1 (408) 832-4884
[email protected]
www.siaemic.com
>>> Jason McKemie <[email protected]> 1/8/2020 8:08 PM >>>
The ALFO Plus 11 can do 80MHz? That's news to me, SIAE has always told me they
do 56MHz in a 80MHz channel. The pair that I have in the air is currently set
up that way.
On Wednesday, January 8, 2020, Mike Meluskey <[email protected]> wrote:
We are very impressed with SIAE Alfo Plus 11 and 18Ghz links with 80Mhz
dual-pol channels.
Getting 1.4Gbps of throughput.
On 8 Jan 2020, at 19:52, Ken Hohhof wrote:
Mark is right, I was being nice.
As far as advance replacement, I believe there is an additional warranty you
can purchase to get that. Haven’t done it, so can’t comment.
There is some period of time after shipment, I think 30 or 45 days or
something, where they will treat it as a DOA and just replace it. If you buy a
bunch of radios and then a bunch of dishes and then have tower climbers put
them up on towers when weather permits, it’s easy to have a couple months pass
before you realize you got a bad radio. Then you can be looking at 2-3 months
turnaround because they treat it as an in-warranty repair. And honestly, if it
was DOA, I really don’t want it repaired, I want a radio that was good out of
the box.
I was lazy about bench testing the radios because the first couple years I
never got a bad one. Then in 2019 I had two bad ones, and even though I had
purchased a spare link, the bad ones were either both High or both Low.
Once they work, I haven’t had any die so far. I have 6 PTP820S links and 2
PTP820C links in service. All 11 GHz except one 6 GHz. Not a huge number of
them, but we’re small. We also have some older Trango and Exalt links.
From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Josh Baird
Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2020 5:25 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links
Do they not have an advanced replacement? This seems to be pretty common with
other vendors these days.
On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 6:23 PM Mark Radabaugh <[email protected]> wrote:
On Jan 8, 2020, at 5:45 PM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote:
A couple other comments about Cambium licensed radios. Make sure you account
for the price of all the keys you may need. Ask your Cambium rep if you can get
a discount, especially if you intend to buy multiple links. They may have
promos or be able to give you special pricing on the HW, the keys, or both.
Does no good to badger your distributor for special pricing, it has to come
from your Cambium regional sales rep. If you don’t know that person, make their
acquaintance. One final thing – test all radios on the bench as soon as you
receive them, even if they won’t be deployed for a few weeks or maybe are
spares. At least run the internal RF loopback test. Better yet, bench test them
as High/Low pairs, with several reams of paper in between or bouncing off the
ceiling. It will be a lot easier to get any DOA or early failure radios
replaced if you can just return them as DOA, rather than sending them in for
repair under warranty later. Repair turnaround time is unspectacular.
Ken is being nice with ‘unspectacular’. I would go with awful.
Mark
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