If you truly need that kind of bandwidth, run a pipe. Otherwise, make a true determination of your bandwidth needs, and you may be able to get away with wireless.
-- Espi On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Reimer, Mark <mark.rei...@prairie.edu>wrote: > 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**** > > 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 > 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