Yeah, my pre-order was through WAV. They reached out to customers about the preorders, so they may have gotten more orders in to Cambium than other distributors. Since Cambium said they expected it would take past the end of December to fill all the preorders, I didn’t think to check with WAV to see if they had more.
From: Mathew Howard Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 1:33 PM To: af Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 900mhz 450i availability ??? The size of the sector isn't as bad as I thought it would be, it's smaller than the UBNT 900mhz sector we have on one of our towers. WAV had them in stock last week, and I know at least one other distributor had them as well... whether or not anyone has any left now, I don't know. But I have one sitting here which wasn't pre-ordered, so taking until January to fill the pre-orders isn't true of all the distributors. On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: Here’s what my admittedly flawed memory tells me. The pre orders won’t all be filled until January, although Cambium claims to be ramping up production. I am guessing they were very uncertain what the demand would be for this, since there was a fair amount of skepticism in the community. I will probably order a few more, but I don’t expect to get them for awhile. Normally we don’t do elective tower work this time of year, but the weather has been unusually mild. I think they said no Lite AP at least for now. Pricing should not be a secret. Here is MSRP to the best of my knowledge, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to estimate street price. C009045A001A AP $2895 C009045C001A SM $299 N009045D001A 65 degree 13 dBi sector antenna $395 N009045D003A 12 dBi yagi $89 I don’t know why they describe the sector as 60 degree, it’s what would normally call a 90 degree. KPP told me they have some antennas in the works, but they seem to be waiting for feedback on whether this product will fly or flop before pulling the trigger on all the variations. I replaced a Til-tek 120 degree sector with the Cambium sector, and I forgot what a beast that Til-tek was, by comparison the Cambium sector is smaller and lighter but still big in comparison to the 3.65 and 5 GHz sectors we are used to. From: Kurt Fankhauser Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 12:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [AFMUG] 900mhz 450i availability ??? What is the status on the 900mhz 450 hitting mass distributors? I know some people out there have some early pre-order units but is there some of this still floating around on a boat somewhere or something? Streakwave doesn't even have the 900mhz 450i listed on their website at all. Also more importantly, how good is the F/B ratio on the cambium sector in real life deployments? The sector looks like a KP on the PDF. Have they released any pricing publicly? Also will there be a lite AP for <10 subs at half cost of the full AP? This is very important because we need to have many sectors on a tower to get around the noise which means a lot less subs per AP.
