One vote for Force180

Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373

On May 23, 2017 8:21 AM, "Faisal Imtiaz" <[email protected]> wrote:

> FWIW...... the situation described is the exact scenario for a Micro-POP.
>
> There are a number of folks who are currently doing such a setup with
> 60ghz or 24ghz as backhaul and Mimosa A5's for 5ghz PTMP... expected
> thruput is between 150meg to 300meg easily.
>
> Regards.
>
> Faisal Imtiaz
> Snappy Internet & Telecom
> 7266 SW 48 Street
> Miami, FL 33155
> Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 <(305)%20663-5518>
>
> Help-desk: (305)663-5518 <(305)%20663-5518> Option 2 or Email:
> [email protected]
>
> ------------------------------
>
> *From: *"Harold Bledsoe" <[email protected]>
> *To: *[email protected]
> *Sent: *Tuesday, May 23, 2017 6:26:37 AM
> *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] extending fiber with RF
>
> How about 60ghz to the first house and 5ghz to the second house and run
> Trill to create a ring?
>
> Does using multiple new technologies instead of just one make it seem less
> risky? 😁
>
> Hal
>
> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 3:47 PM Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Scared of new technology.
>> Seems a bit too long range for that freq.
>> Worried about not enough time has elapsed to prove them out.
>> They sound expensive.
>> Everybody knows 60 GHz is all absorbed by the oxygen anyhow...
>> Not sure God would approve...
>>
>> You all the same normal reasons...
>>
>> *From:* Brett A Mansfield
>> *Sent:* Monday, May 22, 2017 1:44 PM
>> *To:* [email protected]
>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] extending fiber with RF
>> For so little throughput a 5GHz setup would be the cheapest and probably
>> best setup.
>>
>> What keeps you from being a believer of the 60GHz? I can show you the
>> history of some of my Ignitenet links that may just change your mind.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Brett A Mansfield
>>
>> On May 22, 2017, at 12:38 PM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Not a believer yet.  And we only need 100-250 Mbps max to the homes.
>> Actually probably more like 50 or 100 Mbps.
>> Want it to be simple too.  ONT has multiple ethernet ports on it.  Just
>> extend those physical layer 0/1 connections.
>>
>>
>> *From:* Cameron Crum
>> *Sent:* Monday, May 22, 2017 1:34 PM
>> *To:* [email protected]
>>
>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] extending fiber with RF
>>
>> What about a couple of 60GHz links with a single 5GHz AP as a backup? We
>> did this for a bank that needed to connect two buildings temporarily. Put a
>> MT on either side that ran IPSEC tunnel over the link with a failover
>> script to route traffic over the 5 GHz link if the 60 lost more than 50% of
>> it's packets. The 5 GHz was slower, but they still had connectivity in the
>> even of a heavy rain.
>>
>> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 2:28 PM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Still puzzling over how to get ethernet the last 3000 feet.  I have
>>> fiber to a point along a rural road.  The end is about 2000 feet from one
>>> home and 3000 feet from another.
>>>
>>> Was looking at using the existing copper with VDSL line extenders.  That
>>> was what that week of math problems was all about.  I am starting to lean
>>> away from that solution because it is old copper.  I really want to stop
>>> using it.
>>>
>>> I don’t have a ROW that is legal.  The old copper technically is in
>>> trespass and the owner of the property is known to be a major PITA.  So not
>>> sure if I can get permission.  Even then, we are talking about 5000 feet of
>>> fiber to place.  There will be some money involved.
>>>
>>> Using wireless could be much cheaper.  Will have to do a solar install
>>> with the ONT and RF gear on a stub pole at the handhole.
>>>
>>> Not sure what kid of RF.  Don’t want to use an AP because I need two
>>> layer 2 connections from the ONT.  Be more expensive to use an AP anyhow.
>>> So two PTP systems.  Rock solid, never fail type of system.   Noise floor
>>> down there is probably pretty low.
>>> I could use a pair of rockets etc.  Not wanting to lo-ball this, want it
>>> to be very solid.
>>>
>>> What would you use?
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>
> Harold Bledsoe
>
>

Reply via email to