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From: rdt139z@monu6.cc.monash.oz (Jim Breen)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Optical Link
Summary: Suggestions
Message-ID: <1990Mar16.014323.3586@monu6.cc.monash.oz>
Date: 16 Mar 90 01:43:23 GMT
References: <756@ncs.dnd.ca>
Organization: Chisholm Institute of Technology, Melb., Australia
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In article <756@ncs.dnd.ca>, marwood@ncs.dnd.ca (Gordon Marwood) writes:
> 
> 	Does anyone have any recommendations for an optical link which 
> would be suitable for linking two sites a few hundred metres apart 
> where an optical fibre cannot be strung?  I am thinking in terms of 
> ethernet equivalence.
> 
I suggest looking at a short-haul microwave. There are lots that
give you a 10Mbps channel over that distance. Don't ask me who to
ask in Canada, or what thay cost. Here they would be ~$20,000.
(Seems a lot but it would work up to 10km)
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