[188563] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Microwave link capacity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mike.lyon@gmail.com)
Mon Apr 4 16:26:46 2016
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From: mike.lyon@gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <5702BED8.6000409@vaxination.ca>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 13:26:41 -0700
To: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>
Cc: "Nanog@nanog.org" <Nanog@nanog.org>
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And some more options:
Mimosa Netwtk 10 Ghz livensed solutuon, in excess of gigabit throughput. Lic=
ensed 10 ghz and 6 ghz can go pretty long distances (20+ miles)
Also check out SAF Tehbika licensed radios, mkstly 366 Mbps throughput but t=
hey have a wider band radio now too.
Cambium, Ceragon and Trango are also good platforms.
For short hops (less than a mile or so), check out Siklu 60 Ghz, gigabit, s=
olutions.
If in the US, FCC licensing for PtP links is actually pretty affordable, cou=
ple or three grand. It's not like buying spectrum for cell phones.
If you need more info, please feel free to hit me up offlist.
-Mike
> On Apr 4, 2016, at 12:22, Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca=
> wrote:
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> Thanks everyone. I got the sanity check I needed.
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> The telcos often have old microwave links to rural communities and in
> trying to outfit communities with modern broadband (which the telco
> hasn't done), there needs to be consideration for the link back to
> civilisation.
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> Up existing microwave links can be upgraded to enough enough capacity
> for the community, then perhaps it is a acceptabvle solution at least in
> short/medium term.
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> I know that Telus in the rockies has provided some communities with
> microwave links to get over mountains (new installs) in last couple of
> years. (but this has added costs since each tower needs to be powered,
> have access road or helicopter landing capability etc).
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