It will need perfect line of site. And won't deal with NLOS like most 2/5 ghz gear can. It's 24ghz. They claim 15Km. Maybe in the desert. In any climate with rain, Like our's here in Florida even 2 miles is going to be a stretch as 24ghz will rain fade easy. A great application for this would be like between two buildings requiring highspeed backhaul. (Were talking roof-top to roof-top of maybe a few thousand feet or more between them. Nick Olsen Network Operations (855) FLSPEED x106 ---------------------------------------- From: "Drew Weaver" <drew.weaver@thenap.com> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 1:27 PM To: "Jared Mauch" <jared@puck.nether.net>, "Eugen Leitl" <eugen@leitl.org> Subject: RE: airFiber I've read that it requires perfect line of sight, which makes it sometimes tricky. Thanks, -Drew -----Original Message----- From: Jared Mauch [mailto:jared@puck.nether.net] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 12:45 PM To: Eugen Leitl Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: airFiber On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 06:34:21PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Claim: 1.4 GBit/s over up to 13 km, 24 GHZ, @3 kUSD/link price point.
Yeah, I got this note the other day. I am very interested in hearing about folks experience with this hardware once it ships. I almost posted it in the last-mile thread. Even compared to other hardware in the space the price-performance of it for the bitrate is amazing. I also recommend watching the video they posted: http://www.ubnt.com/themes/ubiquiti/air-fiber-video.html You are leaving out that it's an unlicensed band, so you can use this to have a decent backhaul to your house just by rigging it yourself on each end. - Jared -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared@puck.nether.net clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.