[151722] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: airFiber
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Drew Weaver)
Thu Mar 29 13:27:23 2012
From: Drew Weaver <drew.weaver@thenap.com>
To: 'Jared Mauch' <jared@puck.nether.net>, Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:26:09 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20120329164446.GA4669@puck.nether.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I've read that it requires perfect line of sight, which makes it sometimes =
tricky.
Thanks,
-Drew
-----Original Message-----
From: Jared Mauch [mailto:jared@puck.nether.net]=20
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 12:45 PM
To: Eugen Leitl
Cc: NANOG list
Subject: Re: airFiber
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 06:34:21PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>=20
> Claim: 1.4 GBit/s over up to 13 km, 24 GHZ, @3 kUSD/link price point.
>=20
> http://www.ubnt.com/airfiber
Yeah, I got this note the other day. I am very interested in hearing abou=
t folks experience with this hardware once it ships.
I almost posted it in the last-mile thread. Even compared to other hardwa=
re in the space the price-performance of it for the bitrate is amazing.
I also recommend watching the video they posted:
http://www.ubnt.com/themes/ubiquiti/air-fiber-video.html
You are leaving out that it's an unlicensed band, so you can use this to h=
ave a decent backhaul to your house just by rigging it yourself on each end=
.
- Jared
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