I am planning out a site where some of our radios have fiber interfaces and the rest are cat5. If we are running fiber up the tower, I think it makes sense to just put a switch and POE control at the top and run fiber up to that as well.
My first thought is packetflux for POE control and a RB2011iLS-IN for the cat5->fiber. But this grade of equipment makes me a bit nervous putting up at 220ft on a tower. Is there better quality equipment I should be considering? This will be a major site for us so $1000 for a hardened switch or media converter would not be out of the question, if it's justified. Is it better in this approach to bring all the runs (via several fibers) down to a router at the base of the tower? This site is all wireless fed so we don't really need anything at the base other than power equipment, except for the ability to plug in for troubleshooting. Or should I just run power up top and put my router right up there too? Thanks for your suggestions.
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