On Fri, 27 May 2005, Colin Anderson wrote: > >It will be about 100 phones at about 20 locations all within > >about 4 miles of each other. > > Perhaps a more pressing question might be how you are going to backhaul > Ethernet in a 4-mile radius. You can't run a Cat 5 cable more than 100 > metres reliably, and using Ethernet repeaters every hundred metres or so > isn't practical. You will need a fiber backbone or something like that. What > is your plan to create an Ethernet network to tie these locations together?
I suppose he could use 10Base5 (Thicknet). That gives you a whooping 500m per segment. ;-) Realistically there are lots of options - fibers, free space optics etc. Peter _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
