[BBLISA] Suggestions for temporary point to point link?

[Dean Anderson]

Did you try tower stream?  Their wireless isn't quite 100mb, but its better than 
going without.  Intra-POP performance should be good, I would think.

Someone already mentioned wifi (802.11), which also isn't 100mb.  I've run these 
over long links, and might be able to help you out with some antennas. This can 
be problematic, as the antenna's cause the neighbors to complain.

There is also free space optical technology (can't come up with a vender, but
look for "free space optical"), which is great until it rains, but that might do
the trick. Don't know what it costs, but I think it is "reaonsably cheap".  
These should go quite fast (well, OC3 or so).

Also, don't underestimate the bandwidth of your bookback loaded with tapes...;-) 

Hope things are going well, otherwise.

		--Dean

On Fri, 12 May 2006, Marc Richman wrote:

> 
>  We are moving our company about 550 meters to the left(facing the
>  front of the building), and plan on moving our data center in a 
>  staggered fashion over the course of many weeks.  We would like 
>  to set up a point to point link between the sites so we can span
>  our vlans across both sites to ease the pain of moving way to 
>  many machines.
> 
>  We haven't been able to find anybody to lease us a line for three
>  months for a reasonable price, and are looking at alternatives
> 
>  RF looks like it might be a possibility. Does anybody have any 
>  advice/pointers/experience with any of this type of gear? 
> 
>      The distance is less than 550 meters
>      We need at least a 100Mb link 
>      We do not have line of sight
>      we don't need the link for longer than 3 months
> 
> 	      Thanks
> 	          Marc
> 
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