[188553] in North American Network Operators' Group
Microwave link capacity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean-Francois Mezei)
Mon Apr 4 13:28:45 2016
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From: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 13:28:41 -0400
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In a context of providing rural communities with modern broadband.
Reading some tells me that Microwave links can be raised to 1gbps. How
common is that ?
I assume that cell phone towers have modern microwave links (when not
directly on fibre). What sort of capacity would typically be provided ?
And in the case of a remote village/town served by microwave originally
designed to handle just phone calls, how difficult/expensive is it to
upgrade to 1gbps or higher capacity ? Just a change of radio ? or radio
and antenna, keeping only the tower ?
(keeping spectrum acquisition out of discussion as that is a whole other
ball game).
