> Do you mean the traditional Alvarion VL hardware or the new "cheap stuff" 
> ones ?

The expensive Alvarian VL uses a standard Atheros Chipset.
But Alvarion has its own MAC, which is the secret to its more robust 
offering.

> Which do you think is closer to the RadWin design: Karlnet, Mikrotik
> nstreme, Ubiquiti AirMax or none of the above  ?

None of the above.


Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rubens Kuhl" <rube...@gmail.com>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] RAD/Radwin x Wi-Fi


> Answers inline...
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Tom DeReggi <wirelessn...@rapiddsl.net> 
> wrote:
>> My understanding was they were using standard Wifi Chipsets, but provided
>> their own TDD mac.
>> Similar to the concept of Alvarion VL, that uses Atheros chipset, with 
>> their
>> own proprietary MAC.
>
> Do you mean the traditional Alvarion VL hardware or the new "cheap stuff" 
> ones ?
>
>> I'm pretty sure RadWin was the first to do this to accomplish immulated 
>> Full
>> Duplex, with a single half-duplex designed chipset.
>
> Hummm, a single half-duplex instead of two half-duplex ones like nstreme 
> dual.
>
>> This was way before, all the recent trend SoftwareTDD packages.
>
> Which do you think is closer to the RadWin design: Karlnet, Mikrotik
> nstreme, Ubiquiti AirMax or none of the above  ?
>
>> The units are also the same as the equivellent Ceragon models. So there 
>> is
>> some intellectual property that was licensed or oem'ed to the other, to 
>> make
>> that viable.
>
> Yes, Ceragon representatives confirm that they are indeed OEM'ing 
> RAD/Radwin.
>
>> Outside of that, I cant help.
>>
>> But thought I'd ask..... What testing tools are you using to perform
>> RFC-2544 performance testing ?
>
> Agilent FrameScope Pro, but looking forward to less expensive tools.
>
>
> Rubens
>
>
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