It sounds like you’re looking for a PMP (point to multi-point) solution. Unfortunately I can’t offer any experience with one of those products.
However, we have used both Bridgewave GE60 and Ubiquiti Airfiber AF24 products to serve nearby buildings up to 1.2km. They provide great throughput, latency, and reliability, but are not multipoint so each link is a pair of radios. I cannot tell easily from their website what the correct offering would be but Dragonwave may offer fast PMP links. Cambium appears to be a vendor that can do this as well, though the subscriber end speeds look to top out at 125Mbps. I know Cisco has had some PMP bridging solutions in the past as well but I’m not sure if they have anything current. Some other concerns that come to mind are: Frequency (licensed or unlicensed?, noisy environement?) Weather (does it snow at your campus, does the vendor offer a heater) Power (POE or AC?) Backbone cabling (fiber, copper? Can it be managed inline, OOB, or selectable?) Good luck and let us know if you find a PMP solution that you like. Jason Watts | Senior Network Administrator PRATT INSTITUTE > On Jun 18, 2015, at 1:38 PM, Mike Ricci <mri...@marymountcalifornia.edu> > wrote: > > As our campus rapidly changes and grows, we began placing office spaces in > our offsite residential housing. Initially, we built out a large two story > office area that has a fixed connection back to our main campus. Networking > within the same building was simple as we did this during the renovation. > > With our growth, the administration is now planning on throwing together > another Ad Hoc office space in a separate building. This building is > relatively close to our main office space (+-50 feet), however we have no > cabling between buildings and no conduits in place. I’m interested in > testing out a low latency line of site wireless bridge, one that I could > utilize to distribute to multiple buildings as our growth continues, across > up to 1000 feet and from 100-1000mbps speeds. > > Can you share what vendors you’ve had success with? Engenius, Ubiquiti, etc., > come to mind initially. > > <image001.jpg> > > Mike Ricci > Operations Mgr/Infrastructure Architect > 310.303.7263, Direct > > Sent from MarymountAnyware - Access your virtual apps today @ > http://remote.marymountcalifornia.edu <http://remote.marymountcalifornia.edu/> > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by Marymount California University email security > service > ______________________________________________________________________ > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at > http://www.educause.edu/groups/ <http://www.educause.edu/groups/>. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
