With the things customers do with our ethernet, splicing with twist nuts, plugging usb and telephone cords into router ports, etc, i would absolutly not want sometging they could screw into their cable splitter and take out their cable and probably our gear. That being said, the alvarion fhss stuff was rg58 tnc and it was fast installation
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018, 2:41 PM Dave <dmilho...@wletc.com> wrote: > with Medusa and newer radio heads coming that need the high availability > and capacity WHY NOT :) > > Already doing this on our towers but I am standing on my soap box about > something new from cambium > that has me with high hopes to integrate it into a nema enclosure just for > this purpose. > > > > On 03/29/2018 12:37 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: > > If we're changing methods, we should be going to glass and power up the > tower and not use anything conductive for data. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> > <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> > <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> > <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > > > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > ------------------------------ > *From: *"Nate Burke" <n...@blastcomm.com> <n...@blastcomm.com> > *To: *"Animal Farm" <af@afmug.com> <af@afmug.com> > *Sent: *Thursday, March 29, 2018 10:47:37 AM > *Subject: *[AFMUG] A Stupid coax question > > Comcast has been deploying their WIFI hotspot network like mad in the > Chicago metro. Every public park, gas station, strip mall, hotel, and > train station seems to have a wifi AP hung outside of it now. These > units just hang on their aerial coax cable, and get their power and data > just off a single RG-6 coax run off the nearest splitter. Drawing the > power off the DC Coax plant. Here's a picture of a typical > installation. > > http://comcastsupport.i.lithium.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/22608i79AFB9E182CD549C?v=1.0 > > So this got me thinking again, as I have for several years, why are we > still using POE to run PMP Equipment on towers. It seems from a > installation, RF Shielding, and grounding/suppression perspective, using > coax would be the far better choice. Anyone can be taught to terminate > a perfect RG6 in <5 minutes. No Colors to remember. Any couplers are > inherently waterproof. No loose plugs or broken clips. Cheap cheap > cheap outdoor cable. Shielded cables by default. It just seems that > there are a lot of benefits for the low power draw radios. Obviously a > licensed link can't pull enough power over an RG6, but EPMP or 450 or > UBNT PMP radios I would think could run just fine. Instead of having to > deal with switching equipment or breakout boxes at the top of a tower, > just run up a larger coax to a splitter. No outdoor enclosure needed. > > Is it simply a lack of products that would make development costs too > much, or is there another technical aspect I'm missing. Docsis version > 3.1 Full Duplex, which is currently in development will do 10gb sync, > Docsis 3.1 is 10gb/1gb. More than enough for any of our AP Clusters for > at least a few years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCSIS#Comparison > It seems like UBNT or Cambium (heck Motorola already had all the coax > products built) could easily make a 10gb Fiber to Coax adapter for the > tower base. Feed it with Fiber and DC, then just keep adding splitters > and radios until you run out of power budget. > > It just seems like I've never heard it discussed, and I'm not sure why. > Obviously there is something I'm missing. Docsis is a standard, but > maybe there's no standard for the power delivery on the coax? So vendor > Inter-op prohibits development dollars from being spent on it. > > Nate > > > -- >
