Missing 802.11ax features on R730 compared to R750

[john_d]

The SZ 5.2 Release Notes seem to indicate that there is now a significant feature gap between R730 and R750. Is this temporary or will R730 never support OFDMA, DL/UL-MU MIMO, And TxBf?

This has started getting a bit confusing since the R730 data sheet has listed those features for over a year now but to date no AP firmware has been made available supporting it.

Thanks in advance -- I'm just a bit worried as a user who decided to go for the R730 assuming it was the more capable AP.

[john_d]

I agree. It really looks like you need IPQ8074v2 to be OFDMA capable, and maybe Qualcomm is the one who screwed over early adopters here but it's not looking good for IPQ8074v1 to get more than 1024QAM.

[david_black_594]

 We've been a Ruckus partner for 12 years and we still say that with the exception of the R730, Ruckus APs always have been and still are the absolute best that money can buy.  We were on the beta eval team in early 2018 and knew by the summer that the R730 would never have WFA certification because of the Qualcomm chipset. We've never sold it and never will. If you want 11ax, the R750 or R650 is the way to go.  

[john_d]

I hope Ruckus won’t take this the wrong way. I am a huge fan of Ruckus and have bought $10k+ of Ruckus hardware for my personal home alone.

I think the most unfortunate thing about the R730 is that even today the data sheet for it talks about OFDMA, TWT, MU-MIMO, TxBf, 160MHz and other features that are still not available over a year after its release date. There’s no asterisk or coming soon, etc. it talks about these features as if they exist.

I find this to be borderline misleading to customers. Competitors using this Qualcomm chipset correctly messaged from initial launch that it will never do UL-OFDMA or BSS coloring or 160MHz.

The silence is not a good thing here. I would rather have known what will and will not be supported. That might have changed my decision to get two R730s vs say waiting for a R750 or T750.

[hyosang_choi]

That's seriously.

[hayward_kong]

Yeah I agree ruckus is the way to go ... eventually will get a r650