I do not have direct experience with this, but Ubiquiti's AirFiber 5 seems like an applicable solution: https://www.ubnt.com/airfiber/airfiber5/
It runs around $1.000USD each On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 1:30 PM Jean-Francois Mezei < jfmezei_na...@vaxination.ca> wrote: > > In a context of providing rural communities with modern broadband. > > Reading some tells me that Microwave links can be raised to 1gbps. How > common is that ? > > I assume that cell phone towers have modern microwave links (when not > directly on fibre). What sort of capacity would typically be provided ? > > And in the case of a remote village/town served by microwave originally > designed to handle just phone calls, how difficult/expensive is it to > upgrade to 1gbps or higher capacity ? Just a change of radio ? or radio > and antenna, keeping only the tower ? > > (keeping spectrum acquisition out of discussion as that is a whole other > ball game). >