Agreed...additionally, for gear that ships from China, keys might make a lot of sense...why pay tariffs on a “full” unit when you can pay them for a “lite” and not on the key?
Jeff Broadwick CTIconnect 312-205-2519 Office 574-220-7826 Cell jbroadw...@cticonnect.com > On Oct 30, 2019, at 11:15 AM, Mathew Howard <mhoward...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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 > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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