PTP820 - why buy from Cambium instead of direct from Ceragon?

> On Jan 9, 2020, at 8:42 PM, Erich Kaiser <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 56mhz throughput data capacities vs 80mhz throughput data capacities is a 
> significant factor.  Plus can the AF11 do ACCP (Unless yo use 2 dishes or a 
> custom combiner)?   We had a link recently with only 80mhz channels available 
> on vertical.  Getting to 4096 QAM is not easy on longer links (Probably 
> anything over 4-5miles) IMO.    I am a huge fan of Ceragon IP/20/Cambium 
> PTP820 very reliable radios with a great feature set.  The only thing they 
> are missing is a SFP+ port (Which I believe is coming on a new version)
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>> On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 7:27 PM Mike Hammett <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The efficiency is a dumpster fire. 256 QAM radios have about the same 
>> spectral efficiency.
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>> From: "Mathew Howard" <[email protected]>
>> To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Thursday, January 9, 2020 12:23:41 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links
>> 
>> Well, the efficiency isn't quite that bad. at 1024QAM (they actually do 
>> support 2048QAM now too) they can do somewhere around 350-375Mbps per 
>> polarity using a 56mhz channel, which is about the same as what our old SAF 
>> Lumina can do at 256QAM... of course if you figure that as an 80mhz channel, 
>> rather than 56mhz, it's pretty bad. I'm pretty sure that it doesn't meet the 
>> FCC efficiency requirements at the lowest modulations, but you'd have to 
>> have a pretty poorly engineered link for that to be a problem.
>> 
>>> On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 11:50 AM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> If I remember right the biggest spectral efficiency problem with the AF-11x 
>>> is that it uses both polarizations yet only gets the throughput of a single 
>>> pol link.  Could be difficult to license if you can’t get both 
>>> polarizations.  Good news, if you’re successful getting the license, you 
>>> should be able to modify the license and upgrade to a true 1.3+ Gbps full 
>>> duplex radio from SIAE, Aviat, Cambium, etc.  Bad news, if you’re pushing 
>>> the distance such that you can’t run 1024QAM or better most of the time, 
>>> you may not meet the FCC minimum spectral efficiency requirement.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Mathew Howard
>>> Sent: Thursday, January 9, 2020 11:28 AM
>>> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]>
>>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Yeah, but the AF11 actually has to use an 80mhz emission designator, even 
>>> though it's really only using 56mhz... so theoretically, if you upgrade the 
>>> link to radios that can handle 80mhz, you shouldn't have any problems 
>>> licensing it.
>>> 
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>>> On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 11:11 AM Daniel White <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> You license an emission designatior... not a channel per se.
>>> 
>>> When you license 56MHz of spectrum you use the 80MHz channel plan but there 
>>> isn't 24MHz of unused spectrum sitting there... it gets used up pretty 
>>> quickly for other paths, etc.
>>> 
>>> So moral of the story... don't do that. 
>>> 
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>>> 
>>> Seth Mattinen wrote on 1/8/20 09:54:
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>>> On 1/8/20 8:36 AM, Kurt Fankhauser wrote: 
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>>> 
>>> if you have an 80mhz channel and are running radios in 56mhz channel width 
>>> can u just put a 2nd link up and split them up to the two 40mhz?
>>> 
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>>> 
>>> No, that's not allowed. You need to license two 40MHz channels.
>>> 
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