Many of you may have read about the Loma fire that started in California’s Santa Cruz mountains on September 26, 2016, destroying many buildings and threatening several tower locations. Two of the tower sites, heavily used as a primary route for telecommunications and Internet traffic, were surrounded by flames that damaged generators, melted AC lines, and engulfed radios mounted less than 6m (20 feet) AGL. Mimosa uses these sites as a primary route for providing Internet service to both our headquarters building, and to several test sites with live users on both sides of the mountains.

Mimosa products are powered using Power over Ethernet (PoE), making it easy to install Mimosa radios with a single high quality CAT 6 Ethernet cable for powering and connectivity. To give you the flexibility to choose the right powering solution for your application, we strongly believe in taking a standards-based approach to interfaces. This was a key factor in selecting 802.3at, 48 volt as the standard for powering Mimosa products.

Every installation is unique, which is why flexibility in mounting approach is critical. In the category of tooting our own horn, the Mimosa FlexiMount is the most flexible, compact mount available, allowing attachment to any vertical or other angled pole or any flat surface.

When it comes to mounting, you never know quite what you’ll need until you’re on-site. Whether it’s utility poles, stop lights, house siding, or angled rooftops, the FlexiMount easily tackles them all.

One of the underlying principles of Mimosa is to build the sort of company that we ourselves would want to deal with. Crucial to delivering a high-quality customer experience is support. Online help and community forums are table stakes in the wireless networking space. They’re certainly important for those that want to self-support or to interact with other users, and that is why we invest a lot of time into these channels. We’ve taken it one step further and offer live online support provided by a seasoned team that covers pre and post sales.

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One thing that quickly became apparent as we developed the B-series backhaul products, was the need for the hardware and software to adapt to variability in the Radio Frequency (RF) environment. The nature of operating in unlicensed 5 GHz spectrum is that performance is impacted by interference from other operator’s equipment, and the general use of unlicensed Wi-Fi spectrum by the millions of Wi-Fi capable devices sold every year.

The use of dual polarization antennas has become common in wireless communications. Traditional radio equipment often utilized single polarization antennas, so the move to dual polarization represents a doubling of potential capacity over the use of a single polarization. This evolution, in conjunction with advances in MIMO processing, mean it's time to update some of the misconceptions about the impact of antenna polarizations in a wireless system.

The past several years have seen explosive growth in the number of wireless Internet access devices operating in unlicensed spectrum bands. Especially in the 5 GHz band, the availability of unlicensed spectrum has given rise to a number of low-cost backhaul and access devices that enable people to reliably connect to the Internet at a relatively low cost.

Time for a toast! At Wednesday’s WISPAPALOOZA awards ceremony, Mimosa received no less than seven prestigious awards from WISPA, the industry’s leading trade association:

We want to thank the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA) for recently backing Mimosa’s proposal of wider channels in the licensed 23 GHz band, reaffirming broad support for this initiative across the industry. In July, Mimosa urged the FCC to modify the rules to expand the current 50 MHz maximum channel width, with proposals for 80 MHz, 160 MHz and 320 MHz channels.