MikroTik today announced a new wireless protocol that they have dubbed Nv2. This sounds a lot like Ubiquitis special sauce Airmax. I am pretty excited about playing around with the new protocol. I have seen what Ubiquitis AirMax can do & I am sure MikroTik will do it as well or better. According to their site this will be a TDMA polling mechanism with some packet QOS Hocus Pocus. There is a small bit about it in the WiKi. I would love to know more about what exactly they are elevating & such.
The Newsletter can be found here I see this being very very useful for someone who has a few G mode ap’s maxed out with subs rocking this new protocol to be able to saturate it with even more active connections. On another note the RB711 with its 23dBm of RF juice still comes up short when compared to UBNT’s Rocket screaming at 27dBm. But at 50 clams I am not complaining at all. I see myself using a lot more MikroTik gear now with the advent of Nv2. I cringe at the idea of only loading about 30 or so subs on one ap. But with this new TDMA love that will no longer be a reason to NOT use MikroTik ap’s. In the newsletter it says no distance limitations, If this is true for PtMP I already know of a few Ubiquiti radios that will be re-tasked in lieu of MikroTik’s PtMP NOACK capabilities. I will need to hear from the source if a 40Mhz modulation could be used in a PtMP environment with stations at 40-50 Miles.
I hope that one day MikroTik will release RouterOS for Ubiquitis M series gear. I see them selling a lot of copies. I do know realistically this will probably never happen. The only thing that worries me about all of this fancy pants TDMA polling wizardry is the fact I am locking myself into one vendor for that feature… Alas
Nv2 wireless TDMA protocol
MikroTik has developed a new wireless protocol based
on TDMA technology (Time Division Multiple Access) -
Nv2 (Nstreme version 2).
TDMA is a channel access method for shared medium
networks. It allows several users to share the same
frequency channel by dividing the signal into different
time slots. The users transmit in rapid succession,
one after the other, each using his own time slot. This
allows multiple stations to share the same transmission
medium (e.g. radio frequency channel) while using only
a part of its channel capacity.
The most important benefits of Nv2 are:
- Increased speed
- More client connections in PTM environments
- Lower latency
- No distance limitations
- No penalty for long distances
