<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">The CPE side has met willingness to investigate these issues from early<br>
on, but it seems that buffer handling is much harder on CPE chipsets <br>
than on base station chipsets. In particular on 5G. We have had some <br>
very good results on 4G, but they do not translate to 5G.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>My own experience with various CPE work (working with ODMs to get hardware built) is that those building CPE are stuck with what the silicon vendors will support, much like where we currently are with home routers. The AP firmware and drivers have bloated buffers and there's very little that can be done to change that.</div><div><br></div><div>The large OEMs (the very large, well-known, retail brands) have the volume to put pressure on the silicon vendors to fix this. But there's not much incentive for a silicon vendor to address this issue for a smaller customer.</div></div></div>