[BC] STL recommendations in the year 2012

[Mike McCarthy]

On 2/25/2012 9:53 AM, Alex Hartman wrote:
>I fail to see any value in your comment other than to shine your ego a little more. How do you know they don't give a damn? Have you called them? Have you done the path study for Fred? Have you gone down and done a spectrum analysis?  Those are some rather large assumptions you've made Mike.
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>Moral of the story, there's more than one way to do this, assuming too much and instantly denying the idea just shows how unwilling you are
>to try new things Mike. Welcome to the 21st century. T1's are dead and microwave links are too slow.

Alex,

I'm not sure where to start. Ego...Hah. Check it at the door.

I've been in frequency coordination efforts for 20 years.  I've seen and experienced everything from what you ascribe as friendly cooperative calls to rather blunt "Go f'g away. We have no need to coordinate."  In this area, people are clueless and just light up not giving a moment's thought to who they might be slamming on either band. So despite all the good intentions of coordinating, all it takes is one careless moron who happens to point right at ****your**** tower and you're done. Don't need the headache thank you.  If I'm recommending something to a friend (which Fred is), I'm not going to given them bum information.

I appreciate the more than one way aspect. I'm trying various options at my stations for back-up purposes and am finding the public wireless systems largely unsuitable for mission critical long up time requirements due to congestion and infrastructure they use being something I would never in a million years install. Add in to the mix all the private systems no one knows about and it's mess.

I will say this, T-1's are not dead. They're an entry point to digital circuits. They have a tariff and SLA which requires a specific response time. Show me a WiFi or WiMax operator who will be available to test, let alone respond at 2AM to a fault and I'll show you a dozen who won't. By the time you find someone who will, the price point approaches a T-1 and then what do you have? A still marginal path for the same cost as what would be dedicated bandwidth routed on non-public tariffed segments of the system.

I think I also suggested 6Ghz licensed as well.  3.65Ghz is a good option for mid-distance links.  I'm looking at that for a 3 mile hop.  $$$$

MM