[Battlemesh] is anyone playing with 802.11ad yet?

[Paul Gardner-Stephen]

The folks here at SEEMOO in TU-Darmstadt are looking at 60GHz wireless kit
at the moment.

Paul.

On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Philipp Borgers <borgers at mi.fu-berlin.de>
wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 10:18:22AM +0800, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 05:59:11PM -0800, Dave Taht wrote:
> > > am very curious as to what happens at density
> > >
> > > http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/12/802-11ad-wifi-guide-review
> >
> > The first time we heard about 11ad and 60GHz we all thought this
> technology would
> > be limited to cable replacement for home devices (i.e. connecting TV and
> BR
> > player, etc.).
> >
> > Generally speaking I think it won't be very useful when it comes
> > to connecting client devices...let alone creating a mesh.
>
> Depends on how you build your network. If you have a lot of short ptp
> links in
> your "mesh" network 60GHz is maybe interesting for you.
>
> > But if anybody is planning to buy a 11ad equipped device, please bring
> it along
> > to the next WBM :) (together with a 11ad client, please ;P)
> >
> >
> > Dave, do you have any sort of experience and/or heard something from
> people
> > testing it?
>
> "IgniteNet uses the X610 chipset in their MetroLinq TM PTP60-35 a and
> PTP60-19
> point-to-point radios" [1].
>
> Maybe one of the Freifunk communities will test one in the future.
>
> [1] https://www.qualcomm.com/media/documents/files/
> strategy-analytics-report-wi-fi-industry-adopts-802-11ad-
> for-high-performance-.pdf
>
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > --
> > Antonio Quartulli
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