I'd recommend your idea of running pipe in the tunnels before collapsing them. Make sure it's done to code, especially with regard to access points.
However, I'd suggest running 9Um single mode fiber while you have the opportunity, because the range of speeds and distances it will support is greater than multimode fiber, and ironically enough, at least at our site, was cheaper than the multimode flavors. The single mode fiber will be able to support the 40 and 100 G Ethernet when it becomes available and cost effective. You would of course want to make sure your switches support the single mode fiber. From: Reimer, Mark [mailto:mark.rei...@prairie.edu] Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 3:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Wireless bridge between buildings. Hi folks, Have about 10 building on a campus. They are currently connected with fiber from a main hub. The fibers run through tunnels. The buildings all contain clients (and VOIP phones), with no servers. All the servers are in main building, and all traffic comes through here. The tunnels are old, and there is talk of collapsing them. I'm thinking of possibly putting up line-of-sight antennas on each building as a way of connecting. Distances would be < 300 meters. My question is. Is there wireless fast enough for this? Right now the fiber is running 1 GBs (62.5 Um). I would need to have communications be at least this fast, if not faster. If this is not feasible/possible, there is a possibility of running pipe in the current tunnels, and pulling new fiber (50 Um) (which I'm thinking of doing anyway, to get faster speed), then these pipes will be buried when the tunnels are collapsed. Upgrading this in the future would be tedious. Other ideas are welcome. TIA Mark Reimer, A+, MCSA Servers & Networking Admin Prairie Bible Institute Box 4000 Three Hills, AB T0M-2N0 Canada Tel: 403-443-5511, Ext. 3476 Fax: 403-443-5540 Email: mark.rei...@prairie.edu<mailto:mark.rei...@prairie.edu> www.prairie.edu<http://www.prairie.edu/> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
