There's no good cheap 3.65ghz competition either, but they released a 3.65ghz Lite AP...
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Colin Stanners <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >> > >
