Yeah, but the thing about not cheaping out is that you can buy link now for $4k that you would have had to spend closer to $20k for the equivalent of not that many years ago... of course that doesn't really apply to antennas, since you should be able to re-use the same dish in most cases.
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 9:50 AM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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