[123586] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Wireless Ethernet bridge
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy)
Thu Mar 11 12:43:23 2010
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:42:52 -0800
From: Roy <r.engehausen@gmail.com>
CC: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <ca274fce1003110850h76ceb7dby27fdb272b0c3745a@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Airaya will do 1600 bytes packets.
http://www.airaya.com/
On 3/11/2010 8:50 AM, Stefano Gridelli wrote:
> The motorola PTP 600 seems thus far the most valid solution. We want to
> remain on ISM bands, because we don't want to take the burden of renewing
> the license with FCC every x years ... we need something that once installed
> requires the least maintenance effort possible.
> We already have antennas and cables that work with the 5.8 GHz spectrum.
> There's a distance of 3 miles between the two antennas and there's LOS
> available.
> The copper handoff could be solved with a media converter ...
>
> I am also proposed an Exalt EX-5i at 200 Mbps. Does anybody have this
> hardware installed and can share any experience had?
>
> Thanks
>
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Scott Brown/Clack/ESD<
> SBrown@clackesd.k12.or.us> wrote:
>
>
>> The Dragonwave would be my first choice too, but they are not in the 5.8GHz
>> band.
>>
>> The Motorola PTP-600 has a 2000 byte MTU, but doesn't do multimode handoff.
>>
>> What radio to get will come down to what you are willing to give up -- if
>> you are willing to drop the 5.8Ghz band and go with 11Ghz then the
>> Dragonwave is for you -- the new Horizon Quantum is amazing (and pretty
>> inexpensive when I priced it out)
>>
>> Bridgewave isn't bad either - you can get to 1.25Gbps with some fiber
>> handoff.
>>
>>
>> Scott
>>
>> Mike Lyon<mike.lyon@gmail.com> wrote on 03/10/2010 02:23:33 PM:
>>
>>
>>> From: Mike Lyon<mike.lyon@gmail.com>
>>> To: Stefano Gridelli<sgridelli@gmail.com>
>>> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
>>> Date: 03/10/2010 02:23 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Wireless Ethernet bridge
>>>
>>> Check out DragonWave:
>>>
>>> http://www.dragonwaveinc.com/
>>>
>>> -Mike
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Stefano Gridelli
>>>
>> <sgridelli@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> I need a wireless bridge solution that allows to pass jumbo frames over
>>>>
>> a
>>
>>>> distance of 3 miles, using the 5.8 GHz band. The original solution was
>>>>
>> a
>>
>>>> Proxim Tsunami GX 200, but unfortunately it doesn't go beyond an MTU of
>>>> 1536
>>>> bytes: we need at least 1544 bytes, ideally between 4470 and 9212 bytes
>>>> MTU. The handoff should be MM fiber, the desired throughput 200 Mbps.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Stefano
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
