We do fiber to the top. Here are my philosophical thoughts on this. Get a device that is temperature rated for your environment. The RB20011's are fine for our environment. They are rated for the same temps as the industrial rated switches we used to use. If you want a "hardened" switch be prepared to spend $500-1000 for a managed Industrial switch. Believe me, you will want to see what those switch ports are doing so an unmanaged switch is no good. Plus you will probably want to run vlans and some other things at one point.
If you are running clean DC you will find you won't really have a need to reboot stuff. Anything you add to the box at the top is something else that can fail. The PacketFlux stuff is solid, but yet another thing to fail. If you are running Canopy then you will have to put more stuff in the box. We put our routers at the bottom, but that is just our choice. I know folks who are putting them at the top. Would save you some labor and cost on running fiber. Justin -- Justin Wilson <[email protected]> MTCNA CCNA MTCRE MTCWE - COMTRAIN Aol & Yahoo IM: j2sw http://www.mtin.net/blog xISP News & WISP Consulting http://www.zigwireless.com High Speed Internet Options http://www.thebrotherswisp.com The Brothers Wisp From: Chris Fabien <[email protected]> Reply-To: WISPA General List <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, November 6, 2013 11:01 PM To: WISPA General List <[email protected]> Subject: [WISPA] Equipment for Fiber+Power to tower top > 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. > > _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list > [email protected] http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
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