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120 megabit FD link, no 5.8ghz left

No 5.4/5.2? Thinking Moto Orthogon or whatever its called now has a low-band option with those speeds.

What size dishes to go 11 KM with 5.4/5.2?

reply to Inssomniak
11 KM full duplex?

11GHz. Done and done.

Look at SAF or Dragonwave.

I did look at SAF as well but is the licensing a pain in the ass? (IC)

I should have added that my tower has a fair bit of twist in it. Will that make it useless for 11ghz?
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Shouldn't be a pain. IC should be like FCC. I would think your supplier of hardware should be able to help you file. If not I am sure there has to be someone here who can provide some insight.

As for the twist, yes possibly but the twist is going to mess up even 5.4GHz

Either way you should go licensed. Based on the link distance and throughput requirements and full duplex it's the only way you can meet all of them.

PTP600 is capable but it's going to need big dishes to do. Big dish means more twist.
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reply to Inssomniak
Beat me to it. It could be done in 5.4 with 4' dishes for 200megs aggregate.

reply to Inssomniak
IC Licencing process is not that bad. Biggest challenge is proving Canadian ownership. Once you've done that once you don't need to do it again so the process gets a LOT easier. I did it myself, but usually the vendor or VAR will do it for you. Bigger issue is the probably cost of such a high amount of BW since iCan's licencing is not based on today's reality as far as speeds go.

Wait, you have to prove you're canukian??

You just can't walk in and say I'm canadian eh!?
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reply to Inssomniak
It's not a pain in the ass if you let your distributor do all of the paperwork and filings. If you are doing a small number of links it's worth letting them do everything. If you get to the point where you do a lot of links then it would be worth learning to do everything your self.

+++1 on the SAF stuff. We tried them out when they were pretty much unknown company in North America and I could not be more pleased with their product and support. I did some 8 mile 11Ghz links that have been in the air for 2+ years trouble free.

I would be concerned about a link on a tower that twists.
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I do not, have not, and will not work for AT&T/Comcast/Verizon/Charter or similar sized company.

I appreciate all the information, but this idea isn't going to go thru, it was going to be possibly used to shoot a link from a hydro power plant (or near it) back to my main PoP but they can't do it.

Good info to know going forward though.
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reply to Rhaas
Well ya can do that but you gotta bring them some decent beer and a couple pairs of wool socks too.