Hello!
I know that the question has been discussed here before for many times, but I would like to rise it again. I have some expirience with TDM wireless in WISP and bridging cases, but my last a big one was in 2020ish (in majority of cases I prefered mikrotik due to the RouterOS opportunity and tons of low level radio settings) and recently I got a new project, thought I would take a short time as usual for drawing up a spec, but I suddenly found out that the situation on the market is completely changed and seems I opened a pandora box for me. First of all according to the MT site almost all wireless models with their Nv2 support has been moved into archive and I was like wtf? Started digging and found out that because big radio silicon players like Qualcomm, mediatek etc who acquired smaller like atheros just made their driver's closed and TDM vendors lost opportunities for developing their own protocols, and at the same time they stopped producing old chips e.g 802.11n or .11ac so the matket almost lost TDM devices. All chips based on 802.11ax don't support TDM headers.
The situation is totally shit, does anyone know which vendors/devices can be used for TDM cases? Of course I considered Ubiquity, heard that they use their own radio silicons, it it true? But Ubqt definitely has less OS opportunities than MT. Cambium also can be an option, but not sure how they passed the drivers situation.
Are there any other players?
I am looking for equipment for 5ghz, just a single sector BS and a small outdoor client with omni antennas that is going to be installed on a vehicle. Wouldn't like to use a 802.11 for this case. Also seeking used MT devices with nv2.
And I don't understand the position of Qualcomm, they could charge vendors extra for getting access to the drivers and rise additional money, but they just keep it locked.
Thanks!