PureWave (now Mercury) had a mode on their WiMAX basestation where instead of 6x6 MIMO, it used three 120 degree 2x2 MIMO sectors in the mode that Gino suggested. Basestation talks to each CPE in a time division fashion using the sector that has the best signal to that CPE. It’s a site starter mode, they assume you will eventually go to 3 basestations.
I assume the LTE guys could do this as well, I wonder if Telrad maybe has it already. I think Runcom maybe does this on their TVWS gear. From: Gino Villarini Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 7:51 AM To: Animal Farm Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Omni Smart Antenna http://www.etiworld.com/multibeam-antenna-systems.html On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Mike Hammett <[email protected]> wrote: It sounds like a non-vendor specific solution would be very difficult if not impossible as the antenna would have to understand the RF that's happening to know when a transmission to a particular customer starts and stops. I can't see there being many (any?) smart antennas that aren't vendor specific. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: "Gino Villarini" <[email protected]> To: "Animal Farm" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 7:34:15 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Omni Smart Antenna No mumimo, but non-vendor site starter solution On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Mike Hammett <[email protected]> wrote: Sounds like you want an omni Mu-MIMO? Is the A5-360 close enough? ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Gino Villarini" <[email protected]> To: "Animal Farm" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 7:09:13 AM Subject: [AFMUG] Omni Smart Antenna Why hasn't anyone come to market with a Omni Smart Antenna? 4 90deg sectors in one case, smart antenna switcher, RF ports for 1 radio? RF cycles are spew out the sector that the cpe is registered to
