I doubt there will be a 900mhz 450 light-AP available.While we WISPs are always happy to save money, their main purpose in other bands from Cambium's POV is to better compete against the lower-user-and-PPS-handling-capability inexpensive APs from Ubiquiti etc. There is no good 900mhz competition so they can keep the price up.
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 <[email protected]> > *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. >
