[188566] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Microwave link capacity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Hammett)
Mon Apr 4 22:15:58 2016
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Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 21:15:50 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net>
Cc: Nanog@nanog.org
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You might be better served with the lists over at wispa.org. Not saying the people here don't have the answers, but that's what those guys do.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
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Midwest Internet Exchange
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jean-Francois Mezei" <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>
To: Nanog@nanog.org
Sent: Monday, April 4, 2016 12:28:41 PM
Subject: Microwave link capacity
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).
