{"id":32141,"date":"2022-09-05T11:57:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T10:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=32141"},"modified":"2022-09-05T12:01:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T11:01:48","slug":"poynting-launch-xpol-24-antenna-to-boost-5g-mobile-broadband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/09\/poynting-launch-xpol-24-antenna-to-boost-5g-mobile-broadband.html","title":{"rendered":"Poynting Launch XPOL-24 Antenna to Boost 5G Mobile Broadband"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of our readers may be interested to learn that Poynting<\/a> has recently begun to make their latest external antenna – the XPOL-24 – available to retail, which is specifically designed to get the most out of 4G<\/a> and 5G<\/a> based mobile broadband routers that can support a 4×4 MIMO configuration.<\/p>\n

We don’t often talk about external antennas for mobile broadband networks, but we are conscious that a growing section of our readership are now using mobile broadband routers and have written about that quite extensively in the past – ‘How to Choose an External 4G or 5G Mobile Broadband Antenna<\/strong><\/a>‘. Yet at the time we wrote that article there weren’t many good antenna options for 5G<\/a> routers, but times have changed.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> The XPOL-24 is sized 444 mm x 290 mm x 110 mm and is of a rugged design, including IP65 protection against water for outdoor use. It is rated for temperatures from -40\u00b0C to +80\u00b0C and winds of up to 160Kmh (99.4Mph).<\/div>\n

The new XPOL-24<\/strong> (XPOL is just short for ‘Cross Polarised<\/em>‘) is worth noting as it’s quite a big expansion on Poynting’s existing XPOL-2-5G<\/a> antenna range, which will form part of the company’s new Lion Series<\/strong> of antennas. The Uni-directional antenna can harness 5G in lower bands from 617 to 960MHz (Band 71) and the upper 3400 to 4200MHz bands.<\/p>\n

“The antenna can achieve a peak gain of 11dBi across the wide band of operation, due to the implementation of advanced metamaterial technology, keeping a strong focus on the performance of the low and mid bands, especially important on rural and remote areas. The antenna elements are cross polarised with vertical, horizontal and \u00b145\u00b0 polarisations with spatial diversity for improved diversity<\/em>,” said Poynting.<\/p>\n

We should point out that the reference to an 11dBi peak signal gain is specific to the 3400-4200MHz bands, while the rest can expect up to 8.5dBi. But that’s still better than a lot of other antennas in this sort of class.<\/p>\n