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The author of the article makes a claim about using 5g technology to send the data to the DC; which would mean that it can’t be far away. Author clearly does n

The author of the article makes a claim about using 5g technology to send the data to the DC; which would mean that it can’t be far away. Author clearly does not understand wireless networking. Ubiquiti sells consumer grade wireless dishes that beams a signal between two dishes point-to-point at distances of a mile with speeds of 250mpbs or greater. I remember when they released there newest dish a few years ago and one of the IT YouTubers did a test of setting up the dish on a basic lan on two different college campus that were miles across town from each other. It was v1 of the dish, and he got near 1gbps file transfer speeds between the two dishes without much setup or tuning.

dboreham 3y ago
Suspect the author is way more confused than that. The 5G distance comment, if it means anything, presumably refers to the distance between the "field-deployed" servers and the 5G tower. That does have to be quite close typically. But the mention of 5G is probably paid content because as you note, anyone with a real purpose would just deploy a fixed wireless p2p link themselves.
- hoofhearted 3y ago
  It’s not really a 5G tower.. It literally looks like a Wireless Access Point, and can double as one sometimes. You plug a network cable into a power supply for dedicated power over POE, and another network cable into your LAN. On the other side where you other dish is, you do the exact same. Plug the network cable into a LAN, and boom you will magically have the devices on both sides on the same network. The dishes just have to a clear line of sight, and you can get some insane distances. There is a community mesh WiFi network in New York City that uses these exact ubiquiti dishes to beam wireless high speed trunks across the water to the different burrows; and to uptown. For just $800, you can set up a pair of air fiber dishes, and be able to beam a 2gbps trunk up to 7 miles away. https://store.ui.com/us/en/pro/category/all-60ghz-wireless/products/airfiber-60-lr https://store.ui.com/us/en/pro/category/all-60ghz-wireless/p... A few years ago, we moved to a larger space down the street; but Verizon couldn’t get fiber installed in time of our move out date of our existing location. We set up dishes on each building as they had line of sight fortunately. We ran a VOIP network over it for a month without any hiccups. Even in the worst storms, we didn’t see any speed slow downs or packet loss. It was very impressive.

dboreham 3y ago

Suspect the author is way more confused than that. The 5G distance comment, if it means anything, presumably refers to the distance between the "field-deployed" servers and the 5G tower. That does have to be quite close typically. But the mention of 5G is probably paid content because as you note, anyone with a real purpose would just deploy a fixed wireless p2p link themselves.

hoofhearted 3y ago
It’s not really a 5G tower.. It literally looks like a Wireless Access Point, and can double as one sometimes. You plug a network cable into a power supply for dedicated power over POE, and another network cable into your LAN. On the other side where you other dish is, you do the exact same. Plug the network cable into a LAN, and boom you will magically have the devices on both sides on the same network. The dishes just have to a clear line of sight, and you can get some insane distances. There is a community mesh WiFi network in New York City that uses these exact ubiquiti dishes to beam wireless high speed trunks across the water to the different burrows; and to uptown. For just $800, you can set up a pair of air fiber dishes, and be able to beam a 2gbps trunk up to 7 miles away. https://store.ui.com/us/en/pro/category/all-60ghz-wireless/products/airfiber-60-lr https://store.ui.com/us/en/pro/category/all-60ghz-wireless/p... A few years ago, we moved to a larger space down the street; but Verizon couldn’t get fiber installed in time of our move out date of our existing location. We set up dishes on each building as they had line of sight fortunately. We ran a VOIP network over it for a month without any hiccups. Even in the worst storms, we didn’t see any speed slow downs or packet loss. It was very impressive.