AF5 is not in the market for 1 gbps links FYI. The AF5x is a better product IMO and is $800 per link + dishes. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Cryptographrix <cryptographrix@gmail.com> wrote:
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).