[188556] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Microwave link capacity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cryptographrix)
Mon Apr 4 14:26:40 2016
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From: Cryptographrix <cryptographrix@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2016 18:26:26 +0000
To: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>,
"Nanog@nanog.org" <Nanog@nanog.org>
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I do not have direct experience with this, but Ubiquiti's AirFiber 5 seems
like an applicable solution: https://www.ubnt.com/airfiber/airfiber5/
It runs around $1.000USD each
On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 1:30 PM Jean-Francois Mezei <
jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca> wrote:
>
> 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).
>
