ISP vs Enterprise networks
I recently was hanging out with an ISP admin who moved over from the Enterprise world. After a few days with him, it rekindled the interest in writing this article. From a high level, a network is a network. Its …
Mikrotik LHG60s supporting a WiFi deployment
Farm progress show 2019. Mikrotik 60 ghz backhauling between WiFi nodes. Wireless wire cluster for high Bandwidth customers. 5ghz for smaller bandwidth customers.
Extreme switch install
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Interesting use of data center space
This has been there for about 6 months.
80GHZ microwave antenna alignment (and other mm-wave radios)
Recently we had a teaching moment for a couple of folks who had not had much experience with aligning higher frequency antennas with very tight beamwidths. This particular day we were aligning 2 foot Siklu 80GHZ antennas. One of the questions …
When an SFP looks like Johnny5
An 80’s reference. The optics from an SFP look like Johnny 5
Articles in the works
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Wisps getting it done
Several times a year, Paul Conlin barrels up a steep, wooded hillside in his mud-green Rhino SUV to the top of Rattlesnake Mountain above Hume, to perform maintenance on his equipment, which puts homes scattered in the valley below on the internet superhighway.