David, What this means is that MT has put together a combination of antennas from different manufacturers connected to their hardware and had them certified as "meeting the FCC criteria" thus giving them the ability to produce "exact" replicas of what they had certified. It does not mean that if we (wireless operators) slam the same gear (identical or not) together and hang on a tower - - its FCC Certified - - it's not.
The big picture here is that their hardware (whatever routerboard(s) they used), radios, antennas, jumpers, pigtails, enclosure and choice of antennas are certified and will soon be on the market for resale with that little white sticker that seems so important! Mac > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of David E. Smith > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 3:46 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] FCC Certifiable MikroTik? YES!! > > Mac Dearman wrote: > > I thought I would share some of MikroTik's FCC certified gear with > the list. > > [ snip ] > > Okay, I'm gonna hate myself for asking this, because it means opening > the dread Pandora's Box that is "FCC certification questions." > > The Routerboard 52 is "just" a mini-PCI card. Is this certification > still valid when you use it as part of anything else? If so, with what? > Can I connect it to a Routerboard 532 with Mikrotik's RouterOS software > and legally use it? Can I put it in my laptop computer? Can I run it > with Valemount's StarOS software, regardless of what antenna it's > connected to? > > It's nice that this component is FCC-friendly, but you need a lot of > components to get customers online. > > David Smith > MVN.net > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
