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Does it look like Per Vices' product is similar to Ettus'? Maybe cost being the significant difference?

I am not familiar with the specifics of wifi protocols. Is the wifi protocol fit into the rx/tx burst+processing or RT signal/protocol?

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Biggest differences between our product, Phi, and the USRP (ettus) are cost and bus. We use a x4 PCIe, providing much higher transfer bandwidth (8Gbps vs 1Gbps). Additionally, the RF front ends are fully integrated (lowers cost).

We're aiming to have the user manual up by the end of the week, which should provide much more information.

I guess (stressing 'guess') you could do wifi fine, if you can afford a lot of dropped packets. You would listen for some short while, and process that signal to look for packets sent your way. When you needed to send data back, you pre-process it one packet at a time, ('packets' at the wifi level, not necessarily TCP/IP) and when you hava packet you just fire it out the radio.

There's a fair bit of work going on behind the scenes there, and wifi is a pretty heavy protocol to work with like this. I would be very surprised if Per Vices doesn't move to a seperate wifi chip in a future version, if they stick to the 'universal bridge' product. For such a popular protocol, it would make much much more sense.

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