Our new COMPACT is a true SDR radio using FPGAs. But that only allows for changes in protocols like from WiMAX to LTE. The actual RF side is another matter. Cell phones do not have one radio, but rather a dozen or so. You'll not find a SDR that tunes for TX/RX across a huge swath of spectrum. I'm not an engineer but much would have to change. As I understand it, the wider the RF of a single radio, the less clean its masks.
I'd welcome smarter folks than I chiming in. Patrick Leary Alvarion m: 727.501.3735 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marlon K. Schafer (509-982-2181) Sent: Friday, November 02, 2012 11:25 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Challenge to PMP manufacturers! Ahh, but that's THE magic of SDR Patrick! Everything will use one chip. Phone, baby monitor, licensed link and yes, WiFi. When the HARDWARE is totally standardized it'll be relatively cheap and you guys can really get funky with the things you make them do for us. Anything from Gino's request to a straight WiFi device will be possible. I've been waiting for SDRadios to come out since I first heard of them. I really got excited back in what, 2004 or 05 when Rick H. and I spoke at an SDRadio conference. Talking to the guys that are going to build this gear gave me goose bumps! Just imagine when the devices can detect others in the area, adjust power, bands and channels based on what's actually happening in the band. Without us having to touch them. Like plugging in a hair dryer. It won't matter if the voltage is 125 or 105, the device will be able to deal with what it's given. The best days for the WISP market are indeed ahead of us. *If we can effectively deal with video content/entertainment... (Anyone looked at the BW needs of 3d HD and the new super HD video formats? ug.)* laters, marlon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Leary" <[email protected]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 2:21 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Challenge to PMP manufacturers! > I'd argue that the existing Wi-Fi scale allowed Ubiquity to do what they > do. Ergo, the scale happened before them and that's what allowed their > commodity and disruptive pricing to work. Ubiquity is killing the res WISP > market, but its total volume registers not even a blip in terms of total > Wi-Fi units sold globally. > > Patrick Leary > m: 727.501.3735 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Gino Villarini > Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 5:02 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Challenge to PMP manufacturers! > > I think that there are some common bands that would allow a wide market, > 2.4 ghz, 3.x ghz and 5.x ghz are fairly widespread, the challenge is to > SCALE as you say... that is something that UBNT achieved using wifi > chipsets. The way I see its is that you might need to think out of the > box to achieve multicarrier aggregation WITH either cheap wifi chipsets > ore something similar > > Gino A. Villarini > [email protected] > Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. > 787.273.4143 > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Patrick Leary > Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 4:04 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Challenge to PMP manufacturers! > > That'd be one sexy product Gino. Two obvious challenges: > > 1. Lack of international unity in spectrum used for BWA, which hurts the > ability to get to commodity pricing. Of course, this is already being done > with 802.11n though, which supports both 2.4 GHz (802.11g compatible) and > 5 GHz. > > 2. The cellular guys benefit from S C A L E. Last I heard there were over > 1B cell phones in use today. That's some scale man and enables cost to > drive W A Y down. > > Now you are seeing SDR radios (I know, that's redundant, but sounds funky > if I leave out "radio") hitting the market for our space, the latest being > our 3.65 COMPACT. This at least enables some strong investment protection. > I remember Vanu Bose championing them way back in to 2002, but it takes > time and mass before things get to market. We can only do it because the > costs of FPGAs have gone way down. Not low enough to use in CPE, but low > enough to go into base stations. > > It's good though for you guys to constantly apply pressure. > > Patrick Leary > Alvarion > m: 727.501.3735 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gino Villarini" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected], "WISPA General List ([email protected])" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2012 1:14:39 PM > Subject: [WISPA] Challenge to PMP manufacturers! > > > > > > > > I would like to see a Multiband Mimo PMP System similar to what is being > developed in the LTE-Advanced RF protocol, where a BaseStation can use > various spectrum bands to talk to CPEs… > > > > Imaging having an AP with multiple RF Sections using 2.4,3.x,5.x and > aggregate all bands in a single Layer 1 medium to the CPE…also could split > the downlink/uplink in various bands…youll need sync, plus some special > sauce to organize Spectrum availability and Identify external > interference.. but all that could be achieve out of the AP in a Cloud > controller… > > > > So whos the taker? > > > > Gino A. 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