Microwave link capacity

Tue Apr 5 14:08:15 UTC 2016

Agree with Mike that WISPA is probably the place to get real world experience from people who make a living with microwave links.

We use primarily Dragonwave (in FCC part 101 frequencies: 11, 18, and 23GHz), which can get ~600-800Mbpas over the air, depending primarily on channel width and distance. For shorter links (~1 mile), we use Siklu 80GHz, which can do 1-2Gbps over the air.

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-----Original Message-----
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2016 9:16 PM
Cc: Nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: Microwave link capacity

You might be better served with the lists over at wispa.org. Not saying the people here don't have the answers, but that's what those guys do. 

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----- Original Message -----

From: "Jean-Francois Mezei" <jfmezei_nanog at vaxination.ca> 
To: Nanog at nanog.org 
Sent: Monday, April 4, 2016 12:28:41 PM 
Subject: Microwave link capacity 

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). 

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