SAF again. Very stable HW.
We have done a NEC 18GHz Link recently as SAF had not enough TX-Power to get 2048QAM at 10km using 2ft dishes. Runs very reliable and is well built, too. I dont like 3ft dishes as they get a lot windload and handling/alignment is more difficult. AF-11x got some SW Updates recently but still seems a bit of "cheap built" for a licensed link. But if there are backup links it might be considerable. Cheap enough to keep spare parts. Von: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] Im Auftrag von Paul McCall Gesendet: Freitag, 27. Oktober 2017 13:52 An: af@afmug.com Betreff: [AFMUG] Considerations for upgrading passed SAF Lumina link We have a 4 year old Lumina link from our core, 12.9 miles, 11Ghz with 3ft dishes on each end, that doesn't have enough BW for us long term, as we are going to do another hop from there (7.3 miles), then FTTH. I get around 270Mbit from it, and we already use 120Mit pretty consistently and if another tower OSPFs to it, more than that. Sooo, I am looking for alternatives. Its mainly one-way traffic of course, so a solution that favored that would be acceptable. Cost is a factor of course, as I also have a "parallel path" a few miles south to do the same on very soon. Something that could use the same dishes from the SAF would be good also. I have some undeployed Mimosa B11's that we bought for a project and are still waiting on some tower rights to get settled. I could use those, or maybe AF-11X or multiples thereof. I might as well plan for the future since this is a "main artery" link. We have sufficient 11 Ghz channels available to license. Thoughts and suggestions are appreciated ! Paul Paul McCall, President PDMNet, Inc. / Florida Broadband, Inc. 658 Old Dixie Highway Vero Beach, FL 32962 772-564-6800 pa...@pdmnet.net <mailto:pa...@pdmnet.net> www.pdmnet.com <http://www.pdmnet.com> www.floridabroadband.com <http://www.floridabroadband.com>
