Atul Bhatnagar
Analyst · Paul Coster with JPMorgan. Your line is now open
Thanks, Paul. Let me give some color on that. So Wi-Fi 6, yes, people have been talking of Wi-Fi 6. I think the confidence we have is that the chipsets which are coming now for Wi-Fi 6 are kind of next-generation. A lot of problems have been debugged. So, I think, you will see, starting Q2, good Wi-Fi transition, especially in education. Generally, education ends up being a leading-edge Wi-Fi adopters for the classrooms. So, we see acceleration there. So, I will agree with you that it's not going to be broad everywhere people went for Wi-Fi 6, but I think demanding applications where you need speeds and feeds will go Wi-Fi 6.Secondly, Wi-Fi 6 adds that MU-MIMO technology. So, in terms of longer term scalability, that's the right architecture and many Wi-Fi installations are realizing that that's the right way to go. So, we anticipate that starting in Q2, that this will be a good acceleration, and then it will continue for a while. This is not that it will only happen in 2020, and then it will start to shift the momentum. I think momentum will start building what we are saying is starting in Q2.When it comes to the millimeter wave, same thing. If you look at 60 gigahertz, particularly, generation one was much tougher and Cambium actually did not build a generation one product. We waited until the chipsets were mature. We waited when they had the right price point, so we can provide affordable 60 gigahertz millimeter wave. So, I think the confidence we have is that the architecture has been debugged in gen one, and in both Wi-Fi 6 as well as millimeter wave, we are seeing kind of gen two which is when we are coming in with mature chipsets. So, we are confident that you will see that acceleration.And third point Paul, I want to make is we're working very closely with customers. These are large customers of Cambium, with millions of dollars on installed base. And as I said earlier, that's how we have designed Medusa and that's how we're designing this in a very collaborative manner with tremendous ease of deployment, ease-of-use, making sure these networks are production quality, they are easy to deploy.CBRS, third point you'll ask for, we have customers now who are using our CBRS. So, this is no longer academic. We have an end-to-end solution in CBRS which has a SaaS service as well as our products which are backwards compatible. So, if you are a Cambium customer base with our current products, you can migrate to CBRS with over-the-air software upgrade. We have a very sophisticated end-to-end solution. So as CBRS accelerates, I think you'll see Cambium as a very key fast mover.