I have them bridging a road on an industrial estate - approx. 25 meters apart. Sometimes an unusually tall lorry might get in the way. The 5GHz backup is pretty useful IMO, better than nothing. I think I saw about 400mbps throughput when I last tested it. That's good enough for what we're doing for now anyway.
The only purpose for the 5ghz is
A) Marketing wank to sell more units
B) Management traffic backup
B can be ever so slightly useful if the 60ghz link goes down and you need to mac-telnet in etc. But don't for a second believe its actually useful for actual traffic failure, its total rubbish and not even remotely close to a substitute for a dedicated 5ghz radio for failover
Personally i'd much rather they scrap the 5ghz and just put a 2nd ethernet port with PoE passthrough. That way you can power a nanobeam/powerbeam/force300/whatever AND have the Cube radio do its own private OSPF/BFD failover and treated as a single un-interrupted ethernet port by the routers or switches on each end, far far far more practical and beneficial
Statistics: Posted by carl0s — Mon Apr 01, 2024 2:05 pm