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Re: airFiber (text of the 8 minute video)


From: Jonathan Lassoff <jof () thejof com>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:44:56 -0700

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Joel jaeggli <joelja () bogus com> wrote:
Cost will continue to drop, fact of the matter is the beam width is
rather narrow and they attenuate rather well so you can have a fair
number of them deployed without co-channel interference. if you pack a
tower full of them you're going to have issues.

This is exactly the kind of case that I'm thinking about (central towers).

The novel thing Ubiquiti seems to do is TDMA-like channelization (like
with Airmax), or by changing the coding scheme over the air to
maintain orthogonality (what it sounds like this new product may be
doing).

--j


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