What are differences between OSBRiDGE 5Gi and OSBRiDGE 5GXi devices? The specs look similiar at the first sight.

OSBRiDGE 5Gi is a device that has been designed mainly to operate as high performance Point to Point bridge. It is based on very efficient Intel XScale IXP422 processor and is capable of running up to 70 Mbps TCP traffic and up to 35000 packets per second. This device can be configured as a CPE for OSBRiDGE 5G Base Station or generic 802.11a Access Points but does not offer additional features like packet filtering, QOS or DHCP which regular CPE devices (like OSBRiDGE 5GXi and OSBRiDGE 5XLi) do offer.

OSBRiDGE 5GXi is a device that has been designed mainly to operate as full featured CPE device. It is based on a cost effective yet fairly fast MIPS processor and provides broad range of features one would expect from CPE (Customer Premise Equipment) device - Advanced QOS, Packet Filtering, Bridge/Router/NAT Router operational modes, DHCP Client/Server, configurable channel width - 5 MHz (Quarter Channels), 10 MHz (Half Channels), 20 MHz (Default 802.11a Channels) and 40 MHz (802.11a Turbo Channels) and much more. Two OSBRiDGE 5GXi devices can be connected together and create Point to Point bridge but they will not be as fast as the OSBRiDGE 5Gi devices - they will run up to 25 Mbps TCP traffic and up to 8000 packets per second.

OSBRiDGE 5GXi and OSBRiDGE 5Gi offer the same Radio specifications - up to 40dBm output power (this varies depending on the user configured regulatory domain) and the same RF receive threshold - the same built in antenna type (23dBi Patch Panel) is used in both of them. The OSBRiDGE 5XLi device is very similiar to the OSBRiDGE 5GXi device but uses antenna 15dBi antenna, so it is sufficient for shorter range deployments.

Assuming we have OSBRiDGE 5G 13dBi sector antenna on one side of the link, no interference and clear line of sight, the OSBRiDGE 5XLi can be deployed at the distance of up to 5000 meters from the base station, while OSBRiDGE 5GXi and OSBRiDGE 5Gi devices should work for up to 14000 meters from the base station.

Below is a screenshot provided by one of our customers from a real-life deployment of OSBRiDGE 5Gi device providing backhaul: