LTE Antenna's

[WISP_Engineer]

Hi Guys,

Would there be any scope in the roadmap for a GSM / LTE antenna whether it was a fairly high gain Omni or perhaps a directional Panel - most are single polarity with very few 2x2 MiMo options, 

There are a few in the market, however with the use of LTE hardware being more popular - having an LTE antenna would be a useful product, 

I have built a number of GSM solutions where I've had to get a "cheap" high gain panel to direct the signal, Now MikroTik have released the wAP LTE which I have already taken apart and stuck a pair of u.fl to SMA pigtails on to make it connectorised, it would be handy for a MiMo antenna to connect it to - either as a omni / panel or where it can be mounted to a case (stud mount - e.g through a vehicle roof)

Cheers
Kev

[JT]

Kev - what frequencies are we talking about?

[WISP_Engineer]

Hey JT

Looking at basically anything from ~700-2100MHz as that's the "rough" scope of the band - country dependent

for example:
MikroTik R11e supports International LTE bands 1,2,3,7,8,20,38 and 40.

2G Category    Class12
3G Category    R7 (21Mbps Downlinks, 5.76Mbps Uplink)
LTE Category    4 (150Mbps Downlink, 50Mbps Uplink)
LTE FDD bands    1 (2100MHz) / 2 (1900MHz) / 3 (1800MHz) / 7 (2600MHz) / 8 (900 MHz) / 20 (800MHz)
LTE TDD bands    38 (2600MHz) / 40 (2300MHz)

Other cards from Sierra and Huawei support different bands - but that's the general list

Cheers

[JT]

This category of antennas is not in our business scope, unless we can use synergies from our current business, which is not the case here.

Just FYI - If you are thinking about 700-2100MHz directional antenna with significant gain and 2x2 H+V/dual slant, something comparable to what we have in 5GHz, it would be quite bulky (=not cheap) and most certainly not a panel antenna. Plus I can imagine, that LTE network operators will not be super happy to see high density of these fixed wireless clients around their access points.