60Ghz radios cost tens of thousands of dollars and can only operate up to about 1/3 mile or less with direct line of site. This is with extremely directional antennas, it would not work for the point to multipoint distribution you would need to feed a mesh network.
Tyler Booth // President ph. 503.548.2000 | fx. 503.548.2002 921 SW Washington St, Suite 224 Portland OR 97205 On Oct 10, 2008, at 12:09 PM, Sam Churchill wrote: > > Skypilot has an interesting new approach; they use their 5.8 GHz > backhaul network, not for backhaul, but to deliver to end users. The > 5.8 GHz cpe connects to the current Skypilot access points and > Extender. > > (http://www.dailywireless.org/2008/09/30/skypilot-long-range-5ghz/) > > The only catch is the backhaul, of course. I suppose you might use > Mobile WiMAX (at 2.6GHz) -- but what would be the point? > > Wouldn't it be interesting if you could backhaul using a 1Gbps, > unlicensed 60Ghz radio. Then deliver 10 Mbps to Meraki/Open Mesh > boxes. A little academic, perhaps. > > Still that approach uses the unlicensed band all the way -- 60GHz > backhaul, 5.8GHz CPE, and 2.4 local distribution. > > - Sam > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/ Etiquette: http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MailingListEtiquette List information: http://lists.personaltelco.net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
