The thing is, with a product like the 450 that's built from scratch, a significant part of the cost comes from R&D, so there's going to be a lot larger markup than something like ePMP that's based on common chipsets (and I'm assuming has much lower r&d costs). Just because they can build individual units and sell them for a much lower price without losing money, doesn't mean that it would be profitable if the unrestricted version was sold for that price.
Restricting speed by license like they used to do with Canopy was a terrible system, in my opinion, but I love Lite APs... we likely wouldn't have put up nearly as many ePMP APs (and we might've even going back to Ubiquiti) if they hadn't introduced the Lite AP. We probably ended up upgrading at least 60% of our Lite APs anyway, but when you're putting up a tower that you have no idea whether it's going to end up with 10 customers total, or 50, it's a lot easier to justify putting up a full set of sectors instead of an omni, when you a whole set of lite APs only costs a little more than one full AP. On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 8:43 AM Lewis Bergman <lewis.berg...@gmail.com> wrote: > You could also look at it like the manufacturer is partnering with you by > discounting the hardware for a lite version that they hope will eventually > grow into a need for the full version and get them their full margin they > discounted originally. > I am not saying that is what they are doing, just that is the "less than > evil corporate America" way to think about it. > > On Tue, Oct 29, 2019, 10:01 PM Kurt Fankhauser <lists.wavel...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Don't know how I missed this at Wispalooza, just seen on streakwave's >> website there is a new 450i AP out with a 20sm limit called LITE and can be >> upgraded to full capacity with a key upgrade. >> >> Cambium C050045AL02B >> 5 GHz PMP 450i Connectorized AP FCC LITE >> >> PMP 450i Connectorized Access Point LITE >> >> The LITE version will function exactly as the existing PMP 450i AP but it >> will be restricted to having 20 subscribers connected. A key can be >> purchased to remove this restriction. >> >> https://streakwave.com/itemdesc.asp?ic=C050045AL02B&eq=&Tp=&o1=0 >> >> I can see myself using alot of these! Glad it has a 20 SM limit instead >> of 10. And there is an integrated 90 degree sector version too. >> >> AWESOME >> >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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