If he wants to keep his existing FDD band plan license and channel sizes, I don't see how a B11 would be any more capacity at all, since it would be replacing a 256QAM radio link with a 256QAM radio link. The B11 is only high capacity when you give it huge channel sizes or let it do its special weird pseudo-FDD band plan.
On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 7:30 AM, Mathew Howard <[email protected]> wrote: > B11's are going to get you the most capacity for the least amount of > money, but don't expect them to be as stable as the SAF link. I've been > pretty happy with our AF-11FX link, but you're only going to get around > double the capacity you have now, and I don't know if there's currently a > way to do multiples on one dish... it might make more sense to do like > Lewis suggested and add a second Lumina. > > There are lots of options for higher capacity licensed links, but they > start to get pricey. > > You could probably get Chuck to make you some adapters to hook up just > about anything to the SAF dishes. > > On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 6:51 AM, Paul McCall <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We have a 4 year old Lumina link from our core, 12.9 miles, 11Ghz with >> 3ft dishes on each end, that doesn’t have enough BW for us long term, as >> we are going to do another hop from there (7.3 miles), then FTTH. >> >> >> >> I get around 270Mbit from it, and we already use 120Mit pretty >> consistently and if another tower OSPFs to it, more than that. Sooo, I am >> looking for alternatives. Its mainly one-way traffic of course, so a >> solution that favored that would be acceptable. >> >> >> >> Cost is a factor of course, as I also have a “parallel path” a few miles >> south to do the same on very soon. Something that could use the same >> dishes from the SAF would be good also. >> >> >> >> I have some undeployed Mimosa B11’s that we bought for a project and are >> still waiting on some tower rights to get settled. I could use those, or >> maybe AF-11X or multiples thereof. I might as well plan for the future >> since this is a “main artery” link. We have sufficient 11 Ghz channels >> available to license. >> >> >> >> Thoughts and suggestions are appreciated ! >> >> >> >> Paul >> >> >> >> Paul McCall, President >> >> PDMNet, Inc. / Florida Broadband, Inc. >> >> 658 Old Dixie Highway >> <https://maps.google.com/?q=658+Old+Dixie+Highway%0D+Vero+Beach,+FL+32962%0D+772&entry=gmail&source=g> >> >> Vero Beach, FL 32962 >> <https://maps.google.com/?q=658+Old+Dixie+Highway%0D+Vero+Beach,+FL+32962%0D+772&entry=gmail&source=g> >> >> 772-564-6800 <(772)%20564-6800> >> >> [email protected] >> >> www.pdmnet.com >> >> www.floridabroadband.com >> >> >> >> >> > >
