Like i said, it was a stupid idea. I'm all on board the fiber train,
but having had some rodent just eat through the fiber cable going to the
top (on the tower side of the service loop), I was longing for something
that I could just patch back together.
On 3/29/2018 1:48 PM, Jaime Solorza wrote:
For once I agree with Mike, lol, I think Teletronics had a coax to
Ethernet cabling solution catered to hotels and hospitals. Long ago.
Jaime Solorza
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If we're changing methods, we should be going to glass and power
up the tower and not use anything conductive for data.
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*From: *"Nate Burke" <n...@blastcomm.com <mailto:n...@blastcomm.com>>
*To: *"Animal Farm" <af@afmug.com <mailto: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
