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Which Ubiquiti Product To Use?

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Scott Dodge
•Nov 24, 2017

I have used the NanoStation and have been really happy with them. I am bidding a larger project that will have cameras on 9 different buildings and 30+ cameras. I am concerned that I wont have enough throughput for all of the cameras and possible expansion. So I am going to ask a couple questions

1. Can I pair the NanoStation with the NanoBeam? My thought was to use the NanoStations on the out buildings and have 1 NanoBeam talking to several of them.

2. The Ubiquiti product line is impressive and the setup is pretty good. What I cant seem to find is somewhere that I can go to get my head wrapped around the product line and then start looking for training on the setup uses. 

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Michael Miller
•Nov 24, 2017

Do you plan to deploy PTP links or PTMP?  I would use the AC hardware Rocket, Nanobeams and/or Isostations. The NanoStations are UBNTs older none AC line. 

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Jay Hobdy
•Nov 25, 2017
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We use the NanoBeams and get link speeds of 150Mbps and up. I think our largest link has 20+ 2MP cameras coming through and is only using around 60-70 Mbps .

 

Will all 30 cameras come through one link at any location?

 

As cheap as these are, not sure why you would want to mix them

 

 

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Scott Dodge
•Nov 25, 2017
In reply to Jay Hobdy

No we will have about 15 through each link. 

 

Only reason to mix is the physical size of the NanoStation vs the NanoBeam 

JR
John Robinson
•Nov 25, 2017

Question 1, is I think so.  A year ago you couldn't but I believe they have been working hard on backwards compatibility.  If it's a new install, you might consider just going with nanobeams throughout.  Not much price difference.

 

Question 2: this may be of help

https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/205197750-airMAX-Which-product-should-I-use-

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Jeffrey Hinckley
•Nov 28, 2017

Use the Nanostations with the Rocket M for multipoint and the Nano/Lite/Iso Beam with the Rocket AC.  I am still using Nanostations mainly because of the dual NIC.  Throughput is fine for most cameras.  CPU and memory on the client radios is not normally adequate to function as a AP unless only supporting a couple clients/camera sites.  Definately do not use the nanobeam-16 to work in AP mode (nanobeam-19 seems to have no issues).  

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