There is a fairly high density of acronyms and domain specific jargon on this page which makes it quite hard to understand what this is about and what is cool about it.
Could someone ELI5?
Could someone ELI5?
I believe all current high performance radios in this space are super duper proprietary, with near no data on how they work in open access.
If you don't want to use CoT's hardware for some reason then you can roll your own transceivers. You have a choice of Analog Devices chips or Lime Microsystems. Xilinx has a new platform that would also work but it hasn't been widely released yet. Lime's chip is cheap but it's performance is crap and its drivers are even worse. ADI's chips are easy to use and have fantastic performance but you pay for it. You also need to shell out for the massive FPGA's to handle 64*6.4GB/s of streaming data and then you need a system capable of processing it which will still probably be an FPGA or a DSP.