Extending your LAN to a WAN with Inexpensive Point-to-Point Wireless

John Cuzzola Director Of Information Technology

School District No.73 Kamloops/Thompson

School District No.73

Kamloops/Thompsono  14,000studentso  1,200Educa8onalstaffo  800Supportstaffo  Servicecommuni8es:

LoganLake,Barriere,Chase,BlueRiver,HeffleyCreek,Clearwater,Vavenby,Savona,SunPeaks

o  Sites:5 Administra8on33 elementary11 secondary2 alternateeduca8onprograms1  distanceeduca8on

Internet Bandwidth

o  33ElementaryEADSL,E10,T1,E30(shared),Satellite

o  4Secondary(rural)

E10o  7Secondary(urban)o  2Administra8ono  1AlternateEduca8onProgram

KamloopsCommunityFibre(KCN)

ACCEPTABLE(1000Mb/s)

UNUSABLE(2-10Mb/s)

Cost Sharing Model

The Wireless Approach

Line-of-Sight

KCNFibreEADSL

1000Mb/s

???Mb/s???Cost

4Mb/s

NKSSBSA

The Wireless Pilot Pilot:April,2013

Beattie Elementary

50-70Mb/s(max100)$200USD

Useddishesthatoperatedonthe“unlicensed”(free)band.

o  24Ghzo  5Ghz

Dish Footprint

Operating Conditions

WhatabouttheWeather?

-55 Celsius 30 Mb/s (max. 100 MB/s)

http://ubnt.ca NANOBRIDGEM5-25Max.speed:300Mb/s(100Mb/soldermodels)Frequency:5.8GhzDistance:30Km

$99US(perdish)

AIRFIBER5Max.speed:1.2Gb/sFrequency:5GhzDistance:100Km

$1100US(perdish)

AIRFIBER24Max.speed:1.4Gb/sFrequency:24GhzDistance:13Km

$1550US(perdish)

Our Dish Network

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