Originally announced back in October 2024, Ubiquiti has been somewhat slow to get its latest Wave MLO line of products into the store. It took until February 2025 for the main Wave MLO5 basestation to show up for purchase and now, the 6GHz version is available.

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Ubiquiti has two product lines, UniFi which is the main money maker of the company and then also, UISP. The latter is still a large part of the business for Ubiquiti, but has been less of a priority in the past few years. Under the UISP line, Ubiquiti has various products such as fixed wireless PtMP devices, fiber OLT devices, 60GHz PtP, SolarPoint and much more.

The Wave MLO line is designed to be Ubiquiti's fifth generation PtP and PtMP product line, after airMAX, airMAX M, airMAX AC, LTU and now Wave MLO. Back in February, the 5GHz variant of the Wave MLO was released and while basestation (CPE) devices were mentioned in the original YouTube release video, so far none of these have shown up.

The new Wave MLO6 is the 6GHz variant of this new platform. So far it is only available in the US and comes in at $599. This is quite a bit more than the existing MLO5 model which is priced at $399, but considering an extra 6GHz radio has been added, this makes sense. When the MLO5 first went on sale, it was priced at $499.

While the name suggests it only supports 6GHz, in actual fact is supports both 5GHz and 6GHz. Ranging from 5180 all the way up to 6875 - with some gaps in-between for various regulatory reasons.

Because Ubiquiti hasn't launched any CPE devices yet, the Wave MLO5 and MLO6 still only support PtP only, and PtMP should hopefully be announced soon.

Apart from supporting both 5GHz and 6GHz, not much else is new with the MLO6. The hardware and connectivity specs are the same, with two network ports for connectivity, 10GbE ethernet that supports PoE and a 10G SFP+ for fiber connections.

Because of the regulatory rules surrounding outdoor 6GHz, that radio has been disabled by default and an active internet connection is required to keep it in operation. On the store page for the MLO6 it says: '6 GHz radio is disabled by default; permanent internet connection is required for 6 GHz link operation.'

The MLO6 also supports larger channel widths than the MLO5, with up to 320 MHz on the second radio. This means the max throughput has been increased, from 5Gbps+ to 8Gbps+.

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