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I have line of sight to the building where I work, I would love something like this so I could get gigabit internet at home w/o paying through the nose :)
https://www.mimosa.co/Products/Backhaul/backhaul-specs/B5-Li...
I know Ubiquti has similar products as well but I'm more familiar with Mimosa's.
The word "Ethernet" in the title is misleading. That word does not appear in TFA, which appears to discuss a radio transceiver. [EDIT:] I stand corrected; thanks!
Read the datasheet linked at the bottom of the page.
I have line of sight to the building where I work, I would love something like this so I could get gigabit internet at home w/o paying through the nose :)
Hell mine won't even let me bring my own screen to work. (It lacks some enterprise cert apparently).
Ooh, I really want two of these. I'm stuck on an island with poor last mile service providers. But, I have line of sight to a number of spots with good quality fiber.
Edit for clarity: channel bandwidths in the datasheet are up to 2 GHz. Need to close the link at 32 QAM to hit 10 gb before error correction overhead at that bandwidth, which is certainly doable. Also, it's interesting to note that they quote 7 gbps throughput @ 1 GHz bandwidth, and 10 gbps at 2 GHz. It implies that they can run at 256 QAM at 1 GHz, but only 32 QAM at 2 GHz, which also makes sense.
Having worked in the satellite communications industry, where channel sizes used to be limited to 72 MHz (because of hardware limitations of the spacecraft), getting modems designed to operate on larger channels is no small task. I would love to learn more about the internal architecture of these radios to understand exactly what's going on - are they using interleaved ADCs? Is the modulation/demodulation being done in an FPGA, or an ASIC?
If there are terrestrial microwave engineers on here, I'd love to hear your thoughts on this!
Ooh, I really want two of these. I'm stuck on an island with poor last mile service providers. But, I have line of sight to a number of spots with good quality fiber.
If you've got line of sight then current (cheap) tech should do just fine. Sure not 10x gigabit but you can def get some decent internet...
It's interesting to see the huge channel bandwidths they're using to attain this. Advances like this are largely driven by higher sample rate ADCs and DACs becoming more viable in recent years. Edit for clarity: channel bandwidths in the datasheet are up to 2 GHz. Need to close the link at 32 QAM to hit 10 gb before error correction overhead at that bandwidth, which is certainly doable. Also, it's interesting to note…
Basically no colocation interference issues are possible unless two companies try to shoot from the same rooftop, to also the same rooftop, using the same channel AND the same linear polarity.
It's interesting to see the huge channel bandwidths they're using to attain this. Advances like this are largely driven by higher sample rate ADCs and DACs becoming more viable in recent years. Edit for clarity: channel bandwidths in the datasheet are up to 2 GHz. Need to close the link at 32 QAM to hit 10 gb before error correction overhead at that bandwidth, which is certainly doable. Also, it's interesting to note…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you've got line of sight then current (cheap) tech should do just fine. Sure not 10x gigabit but you can def get some decent internet...
Do you have any recommendations for current products for line of sight?
It's interesting to see the huge channel bandwidths they're using to attain this. Advances like this are largely driven by higher sample rate ADCs and DACs becoming more viable in recent years. Edit for clarity: channel bandwidths in the datasheet are up to 2 GHz. Need to close the link at 32 QAM to hit 10 gb before error correction overhead at that bandwidth, which is certainly doable. Also, it's interesting to note…
You can pack many bits into a constellation point. Think 1024 QAM.