[AusNOG] 4G LTE bridges

[Thomas Jackson]

+1 for the Mikrotik RBSXTLTE, I have one attached to my TV antenna mast at home (backup link) which I have speed tested at 63mbit down / 23mbit up on Telstra (admittedly I am about 800m away from the tower with reasonably clear LOS).

The only caveat is that it only supports the 1800MHz and 2600MHz bands, so make sure to check you have coverage in those bands (the ACMA search tool is helpful here [0]).

I'd do anything to avoid the USB dongles, we have a couple of sites that use these for backup links and we're forever having issues with them.

[0] http://web.acma.gov.au/pls/radcom/assignment_range.search

From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Matt Perkins
Sent: Friday, 1 July 2016 10:17 AM
To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] 4G LTE bridges

These work very well.

http://shop.duxtel.com.au/product_info.php?products_id=402
http://routerboard.com/RBSXTLTE3-7

Matt.


On 1/07/2016 10:12 AM, Jay Dixon wrote:
Hi all,
Can anyone recommend a good 4G bridge for use in an enterprise environment?

I'm after something along the lines of the Cradlepoint ARC-CBA850<https://cradlepoint.com/products/arc-cba850> but trying to avoid using an external USB modem, i just seem to be struggling to find something that supports the Australian specific LTE bands.

planning to use it purely just as a basic bridge - the smarts of failover/routing/security etc will be handled by something else (likely an SRX), currently have a Telstra contract so interested in those bands specifically but would be nice to support voda/optus LTE if there's something that will do all the bands.

three questions really...
 - does anyone use anything similar they can recommend?
 - has anyone used one of the cradlepoint ones in AU and had a good experience with it?
 - am I just chasing a dead end, and will using a USB Sierra Aircard be fine anyway?

thanks!
 -Jay




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