[170411] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WISP or other options
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Waites)
Thu Mar 27 06:19:52 2014
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 10:10:13 +0000
From: William Waites <wwaites@tardis.ed.ac.uk>
To: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>
In-Reply-To: <5333A2D6.5010302@meetinghouse.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:02:30AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Laser link, and pray for clear weather?
You'll have to pray really hard around here, especially in South
Queensferry down by the water...
We actually have an FSO link between two tall buildings in South
Edinburgh. Only about 500m. It works pretty well except when the haar
rolls in.
Giant pain in the behind to align though, and given that the wind that
comes over the top of these tall buildings can be 5x that at ground
level, and gales happen several times a year, keeping them aligned
is... interesting...
-w
