I do not have direct experience with this, but Ubiquiti's AirFiber 5 seems like an applicable solution: https://www.ubnt.com/airfiber/airfiber5/ It runs around $1.000USD each On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 1:30 PM Jean-Francois Mezei < jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca> wrote:
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).