Private Wireless Network

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warwiac@sympatico.ca (Tom L) wrote in news:efc7ea37.0404260814.6cf7a9a7
@posting.google.com:

> Our organization is looking to implement a wireless private network,
> some of our links will be quite long and challenging, up to 70 km. We
> were hoping for a
> minimum of 36 mps bandwidth and have been looking in the 5.8 ghz
> range. Is there any equipment you would recommend or avoid for this
> application. Is fog or heavy rain a factor. What might we be
> overlooking?

That 5.8 gHz probably won't propagate 70 km in one hop. Trees, hills,
building's, bridges, interference.

Did you bring in professional's to look at it's feasability ? The terrain
is a major factor, and a propagation study should be done. The gear my
former company used to make was 2.4 gHz and with good line-of-site in a
point-to-point setup the max range was about 25 miles (40 km?), with
super high-gain directional antenna's, everything right up to FCC limits.
And this was only 1.5 mBits.

You can't really get any specific answers until the whole network is
examined.

Regards,

DS





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> thanks.
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