[188598] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Microwave link capacity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean-Francois Mezei)
Thu Apr 7 13:52:50 2016
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From: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 13:52:47 -0400
In-Reply-To: <57065271.1030808@bryanfields.net>
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On 2016-04-07 08:28, Bryan Fields wrote:
> Microwave has it's place, but the 20 mile, >1gb links are marketing more than
> anything.
So existing long distance links to reach rural communities are not good
candidates to upgrade from old microwave that handles just phone to
something that can serve broadband for the town ?
If existing towers are further apart than what is realistic for higher
capacity links, then upgrading would involve new towers at which point,
the economics might point to fibre.
