[181334] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Whats' a good product for a high-density Wireless network setup?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Hammett)
Sat Jun 20 21:50:47 2015
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They've been getting 5150 - 5250 approval. DFS, IIRC, has yet to happen. Well, in their AirMax line, of which the UniFi will be similar internally. They didn't have any problem with their airFiber line, which is completely FPGA.
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From: "Jared Mauch" <jared@puck.nether.net>
To: "James Hartig" <jameshartig@gmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2015 7:05:51 PM
Subject: Re: Whats' a good product for a high-density Wireless network setup?
On Jun 20, 2015, at 7:27 PM, James Hartig <jameshartig@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The thing you need to watch out for with Ubiquiti is that they don't
>> support DFS, so the entire U-NII-2 channel space is off limits for 5 GHz.
>
> The UniFi UAP-AC unit has not been cleared for DFS but looks like the UAP
> Outdoor has. I own a few UAP-AC v2's and I can confirm with the latest
> firmware (3.2.12) there is no support for DFS channels.
>
> Source: https://community.ubnt.com/t5/UniFi-Wireless/DFS/td-p/697319
UBNT went through much of 2013-2015 without many devices passing tests outside the ISM band. They seem to have changed who they do testing with, and combined with the rule changes at the FCC and correspondingly IC they were not equipped to handle that until this year it seems.
They still have a huge backlog of DFS certifications which seem to be slowly getting approved as they pass testing.
- Jared
