[AusNOG] AirFibre

[Joe Saxton]

What would be the data loses on the 5-6Ghz band. Forgetting the licencing requirements.

-----Original Message-----
From: James Andrewartha [mailto:trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au] 
Sent: Thursday, 28 November 2013 2:20 PM
To: Joe Saxton
Cc: 'ausnog at ausnog.net (ausnog at lists.ausnog.net)'
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] AirFibre

On Thu, 28 Nov 2013, Joe Saxton wrote:

> As I was doing some research on opportunities on ways our company can 
> improve our bandwidth across our sites I can along this product called AirFibre.
>  
> http://www.ubnt.com/airfiber
> 
> Its described that over the licence free 24Ghz band it can carry 1.4Gbps+ data throughput upto 13km range with the airFibre24.
> The airFibre5 operates on the lower 5Ghz band (which may or may not 
> require licencing) which can carry upto 1Gbs data throughput within a 100Km range.
> 
> For a point to point link at ~$4k it seems like a cost effective way to deploy an alternate FTTP link.

Be aware that the licensing of this band in Australia means the distances it can achieve are much shorter - see
http://store.freenet-antennas.com.au/product_info.php?products_id=534 for theoretical and real-world examples.

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