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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Fair enough Craig, I would agree with that.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#666699'>Alex Maclaren</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#666699'><br>Network Operations Analyst<br>Cirrus Communications Pty Ltd </span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#666699'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'>t|: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#666699'>1300 552 698<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'>f|: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#666699'>1300 556 790<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'>e|: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:alex.maclaren@cirruscomms.com.au">alex.maclaren@cirruscomms.com.au</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'>w|: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.cirruscomms.com.au/" title="Cirrus Communications -
Connecting Regional Australia with Wireless Broadband, Network equipment
and IP Telephony">http://www.cirruscomms.com.au/</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><img border=0 width=203 height=102 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CD29DE.22223C80" alt="New Signiture"></span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This is an e-mail from Cirrus Communications Pty Ltd. It is confidential to the named addressee and may contain copyright and/or legally privileged information. No-one else may read, print, store, copy, forward or act in reliance on all or any of it or its attachments. If you receive this email in error, please telephone us on +61 2 4336 2000 or email <a href="mailto:info@cirruscomms.com.au">info@cirruscomms.com.au</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Craig Askings [mailto:craig@askings.com.au] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, 4 May 2012 10:02 AM<br><b>To:</b> Alex Maclaren<br><b>Cc:</b> ausnog@lists.ausnog.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] Bandwidth in Phillip Island<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I was speaking specifically about the AirFiber product which works in the 24GHZ band and has a built in antenna that can not be swapped out for something larger. I was not speaking about wireless links in general.<br><br>Craig.<br><br>On 4/05/2012 9:46 AM, Alex Maclaren wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I beg to differ of all this discussion about the EIRP limits in Australia meaning wireless link distances can only be 2-3km.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>We have many links of over 15km operating at legal limits.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>It is just a matter of having enough gain on your dishes.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>For instance, if you have two BulletM5 radios and 27dbi grid dishes, over 10km operating in the 5.4GHz range, your theoretical signal is -72dBm.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This would be more than enough signal to achieve full modulation on the link.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>