AF5 is not in the market for 1 gbps links FYI. The AF5x is a better product IMO and is $800 per link + dishes.
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Cryptographrix <cryptograph...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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). > > >