Whats' a good product for a high-density Wireless network setup?

Sun Jun 21 01:50:40 UTC 2015

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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----- Original Message -----

From: "Jared Mauch" <jared at puck.nether.net> 
To: "James Hartig" <jameshartig at gmail.com> 
Cc: "NANOG list" <nanog at nanog.org> 
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 at 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 