Six miles is probably pushing it, but Proscend make some interesting Long- Range Ethernet SFP transciever which are VDSL based. They're horrendously documented and they draw *way* more power than the SFP specification allows. They also make a version which is design to terminate VDSL broadband circuits - A couple of those found their way to my desk recently and it turns out that despite the horrendous documentation and sightly scary heat output (they come with a little paper note in the box which says something along the lines of "WARNING! MODULE GETS HOT - DO NOT TOUCH DURING OPERATION."), they do generally Just Work! ~a
On Wed, Dec 12, 2018, at 9:25 PM, Nick Bogle wrote: > A quick question for you guys; > > If you had a single dry pair (pair of copper wires originally for > phones) to a remote site that was around 6 miles away, what would you > use? We currently are just extending a T1 line to this site, but > 1.5Mbps isn't cutting it anymore. Unfortunately it's a research site > on a federally protected wildlife preserve so we can't run any new > infrastructure (fiber etc) and it isn't in a geographical place where > point to point wireless is practical. We were thinking there is some > sort of network extender that uses some form of DSL for higher > bandwidth capacity.> > Any suggestions?
