There's a lot more "tools" coming this year that will continue to make building gigabit wireless networks with 60GHz easier and easier. With today's tools it is already possible to build 500m radius cells @ 99.99% in rain zone K - even with a resi-friendly 8in. size. If you bump that up to 1' size, you can get to 2500' (750m) radius.
Besides the 30º sector we have today, we will continue to add to this other coverages and form factors. That, combined with some other tools like low-cost TRILL rbridges will make building these networks much easier. Some folks are taking a different approach and doing high density cities: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/blueprint-building-5g-primed-fiber-backhauled-telecom-neal-lachman There's other deployment models too including pure wireless ones. There's building wireless mesh/rings, there's using lower band licensed PTMP to feed wireless rings, etc. Thanks, -Hal On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 6:09 PM Mathew Howard <mhoward...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think the 30 degree sector Ignitenet has is something like 18dbi, vs > 25dbi for their bigger directional... I tried to get a pair of Metrolinqs > to work at just under a mile (which should theoretically work), but I never > could get them to link. I tested at about half that distance and it worked > fine... I don't remember what the signal was, but I thought at the time > that it would probably link with 17dbi less antenna. Even so, 1000' should > be workable, which still has a lot of potential. I've been toying with the > idea of putting them on street lights - I'm thinking you could do something > like one 30 degree sector at the end of each street and cover a block or > two. > > Heck, even if you only figured 500'-1000', you could build a network > pretty cheaply using street lights. > > Of course it is only going to be useful in pretty specific areas... at the > majority of our towers 60ghz is going to be completely worthless, but I can > certainly find places where it would work. > > On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 4:43 PM, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Even if it existed 2000 ft is wildly optimistic. 60 GHz works at 600 >> meters (just about 2000 ft for you Americans) between two PTP dishes >> because you have 44-45dBi gain dishes on both ends. Would not be the case >> with any sort of 60 GHz sector antenna, you'd be looking at much less gain. >> >> On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 2:39 PM, Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Very location specific. None of our towers would be able to serve anyone >>> with that kind of range. >>> >>> >>> bp >>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> >>> >>> >>> On 5/8/2017 2:15 PM, Mathew Howard wrote: >>> >>> Indeed... don't underestimate what can be done with a 2000' range. I can >>> probably cover a hundred houses with that from the tower next to where I'm >>> sitting. >>> >>> On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Gino A. Villarini <g...@aeronetpr.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I concur >>>> >>>> From: Af <af-boun...@afmug.com> on behalf of Sterling Jacobson < >>>> sterl...@avative.net> >>>> Reply-To: "af@afmug.com" <af@afmug.com> >>>> Date: Monday, May 8, 2017 at 4:31 PM >>>> To: "af@afmug.com" <af@afmug.com> >>>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 60Ghz PtMP, Why Doesn't Everyone Have It? >>>> >>>> Lots. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Lots of places. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I’ve got, and can get fiber up main roads in neighborhoods very easily. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> What costs me is the last mile backbone that winds across streets and >>>> through ROW in front of houses etc. >>>> >>>> That is the majority of my costs right there. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> If I can get in with ‘normal’ wireless pricing per AP/CPE but at >>>> 1000Mbps I can do the hybrid model easily at much less costs. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> It will be amazing for potential customers at the moment. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Might not hold up over time as bandwidth needs increase, but provides >>>> an immediate solution at a fraction of the cost of fiber, with the ‘feel’ >>>> of fiber. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com <af-boun...@afmug.com>] *On >>>> Behalf Of *Colin Stanners >>>> *Sent:* Monday, May 8, 2017 2:29 PM >>>> *To:* af@afmug.com >>>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] 60Ghz PtMP, Why Doesn't Everyone Have It? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> How many places do you want to install a PtMP system that goes a >>>> maximum of 1000-2000ft distance, that fiber does not work? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> *Gino A. Villarini* >>>> President >>>> Metro Office Park #18 Suite 304 Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968 >>>> >>>> On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 3:05 PM, Sterling Jacobson <sterl...@avative.net> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> What am I missing here? >>>> >>>> Can't Cambium and UBNT and others simply overlay the same radio >>>> architecture/software they have developed over a decade, on top of a 60GHz >>>> radio instead of 5Ghz? >>>> >>>> Is there some fundamental problem with using the same PHY later >>>> protocols on 60GHz vs 5GHz? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> >
