Off to bed now. I have to be at work early for a Motorola marketing (bleh) presentation. My guess is that they are introducing a
mesh version of the
Canopy system.
Mini rant:
Motorola has a nice low-chipcount board that they use in all their Canopy products (except for their 45Mb backhaul,
IIRC that came from Orthogon.) So far, they have been using it for point to multipoint
TDD networking. Apart from the size of the integrated antenna, all their radios are identical.
I'd love to see them make better use of their fixed-wireless software radio platform, so hopefully any mesh system will use their existing hardware design.
They recently introduced Canopy Lite subscriber modules which are identical to their normal SMs with the exception that they are speed restricted in software. This introduces a fascinating possibility. Why can't they sell bare hardware and let us buy feature (
SM,
AP,
BH, Speed) licenses over the web as needed?
We have already determined that the software loads and hardware is identical across all those favors. You can get keys to increase bandwidth on the access points. Virtually everything is in place except for the online store.