RE: Microwave link capacity

[Huffman, Timothy]

Agree with Mike that WISPA is probably the place to get real world experience 
from people who make a living with microwave links.

We use primarily Dragonwave (in FCC part 101 frequencies: 11, 18, and 23GHz), 
which can get ~600-800Mbpas over the air, depending primarily on channel width 
and distance. For shorter links (~1 mile), we use Siklu 80GHz, which can do 
1-2Gbps over the air.

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Tim Huffman
Staff Manager – Fixed Wireless Engineering | Windstream
999 Oak Creek Dr | Lombard, IL 60148
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-Original Message-
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2016 9:16 PM
Cc: Nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Microwave link capacity

You might be better served with the lists over at wispa.org. Not saying the 
people here don't have the answers, but that's what those guys do. 




- 
Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
http://www.ics-il.com 



Midwest Internet Exchange 
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- Original Message -

From: "Jean-Francois Mezei"  
To: Nanog@nanog.org 
Sent: Monday, April 4, 2016 12:28:41 PM 
Subject: Microwave link capacity 


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). 


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RE: mpls over microwave

[Huffman, Timothy]

We run MPLS over wireless links of all kinds quite extensively. The key is to 
make sure that packet loss is at a minimum (duh), and to ensure that your 
wireless links have a large enough MTU to pass the additional bytes for each 
label. Other than that, we treat the wireless links as wires.

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Tim Huffman
Staff Manager - Engineering | Windstream
999 Oak Creek Dr | Lombard, IL 60148
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-Original Message-
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Spyros Kakaroukas
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 5:46 AM
To: 'sur...@mauigateway.com'; nanog@nanog.org
Subject: RE: mpls over microwave

Hey,

We run few mpls links ( 7600s/3600s on the mpls side mostly ) over Ceragon 
wireless gear. Nothing too fancy, I just treat them as switches ( or even just 
cables for some boxes,  not doing mac learning at all ). No issues whatsoever 
on the networking side.


My thoughts and words are my own.

Kind Regards,

Spyros

-Original Message-
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Scott Weeks
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2015 11:55 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: mpls over microwave



Anyone doing MPLS over microwave radios?  Please share your experiences on list 
or off.

scott


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RE: ISP Performance Metrics and Performance Measurement tools

[Huffman, Timothy]

We use Cacti (http://www.cacti.net/) and Intermapper 
(http://www.helpsystems.com/intermapper). Smokeping is pretty common, too.

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Tim Huffman

-Original Message-
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Okoegwale
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2014 7:23 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: ISP Performance Metrics and Performance Measurement tools

Dear all -

Kindly share commonly used metrics for benchmarking ISPs and available tools 
(preferably open source) that are used for tracking and reporting these metrics.

thanks for your help and regards,

Joseph