My gut tells me 2 conflicting things about licensed links. On the one hand, I've learned over time not to cheap out on them. They are critical infrastructure that last for years and require minimal attention after the initial design and build. Do it right the first time, and plan them for 5+ years down the road, not just next month.
But on the other hand, we are being forced toward the fixed wireless version of "small cells". We need max modulation on every subscriber, and even so, to support peak time video streaming and 25-100 Mbps speeds, we are limited to as little as 10 subscribers on an AP. So we need more towers, close to customers, and with fewer customers per tower. The math doesn't add up if you have a couple $10K links at a tower that only serves maybe 20 customers total. So there will be a demand for cheaper radios and antennas. Thinking we can do all these gigabit links in unlicensed is unrealistic. -----Original Message----- From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Seth Mattinen Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 9:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Bridgewave Navigator On 10/10/18 5:20 AM, Tim Hardy wrote: > 160 MHz Bw not legal in the US and would require rule waivers if the > channel pairs were available. Bear in-mind that the Jirous antennas > used on a lot of UBNT and Mimosa paths are only Cat B and don’t lend > themselves to a lot of frequency reuse. Even the Cat A antennas (3’ - > Commscope, RadioWaves, RFS) aren’t that great (Commscope’s Sentinel > and RFS’ SC are better). There’s a reason why many of the Cellular > and Public Safety systems use 4 or 6 foot shrouded high performance or > ultra-high performance antennas.. Anyone using a UBNT or Mimosa probably don't want to pay for (or can't afford) a Class 4 Sentinel. -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
