MT can manufacture NS alike hardware if they only want to. They don't have to buy it from Ubiquiti and making Ubiquiti (competing company?) profit from it.
On 7/20/08, Gino Villarini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mk can buy nanostations in bulk, > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Ferre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 5:28 PM > To: wireless@wispa.org <wireless@wispa.org> > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Nanostations > > Looking at the posts on the Mikrotik forum I'd say Mikrotik doesn't > exactly like Ubiquiti. And from business point of view I can clearly > see why. > > Who exactly would benefit from porting Mikrotik to NS5? Mikrotik? No, > their Routerboard sales would drop and as we see during last two years > they are more into selling Routerboard + Routeros package than the > software alone. Ubiquiti would be the main beneficiary of that > situation and that's why you're not going to see it happen. Never > ever. > > > > > On Sun, 20 Jul 2008, Jeromie Reeves wrote: > >> >Oswave says there is no NS2/5 support and will not be. DD-WRT has >> >support. That is a shame since ros/sos seam not to have plans to >> >support them. I wonder how much effort/money it would be to get >> >Ubiquity to solicit a firmware from someone? > > My understanding (this is "friend of a friend" quality info) is that > MT and Ubiquity DID have discussions about the NS platform. It is > not something that is going to happen "out of the box", however with > a 16M flash that Travis mentioned, perhaps it is something that > could be done. I mean, the cost would be just $45 for the nLevel4 > license and only about $23 or so (I can't recall the available > pricing) for nLevel3 plus the hardware cost. > > -- ******************************************************************** > *Butch Evans *Professional Network Consultation * *Network Engineering > *MikroTik RouterOS * *573-276-2879 *ImageStream * > *http://www.butchevans.com/ *StarOS and MORE * > *http://blog.butchevans.com/ *Wired or wireless Networks * *Mikrotik > Certified Consultant *Professional Technical Trainer * > ******************************************************************** > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > 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: wireless@wispa.org > > 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: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
