airFiber

Thu Mar 29 18:01:46 UTC 2012

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

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 From: "Drew Weaver" <drew.weaver at thenap.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 1:27 PM
To: "Jared Mauch" <jared at puck.nether.net>, "Eugen Leitl" <eugen at 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 at 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.
> 
> http://www.ubnt.com/airfiber

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

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