yes the siklu's are a good idea. you can calculate the paths here: http://lbc.siklu.com/home.php
On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Mathew Howard <[email protected]> wrote: > So we have a link that's around ~1.7 miles running on an airFiber24, which > we needs to be upgraded to something faster (looking for more than 1 gig), > ideally with less rain fade... > > We happen to have another tower, which is almost exactly half way between, > so I could split the distance in half. My idea, is to do two 80ghz links... > it looks like I can do two Siklu 5500 links, which will give me 2Gbps for > less money than doing one 18ghz link with my bandwidth requirements, and it > has the ability to upgrade to 5Gbps with just a license key... and it also > has the advantage of getting us lots of bandwidth at the third tower. > > Is this a good idea, or am I missing something that makes this completely > nuts? Does anyone have real world experience with rain fade in 80ghz (rain > zone K, southern Wisconsin, so pretty much the same weather as the Chicago > area)? According to the Siklu link budget calculator, it looks like we > should get better availability with the two 80ghz links than what we're > getting now with 24ghz (at twice the distance). >
