Re: A microwave link to populated areas?
A microwave link can be reliable and give Gbps speeds.
Though here the annual Comreg licence might be €10,000 p.a.!
A decent microwave link might replace 15km or even 25km (high site to high site or pylons).
Wooden poles and less than 2km silly, especially rural, where you can use a dedicated machine to bury in a ditch, put it on Electric or phone poles, feed it inside a water main or sewer. You can even put it on the HV grid distribution cables.
This sounds like a really cheap link that you can buy on the internet to link two roof tops a few blocks away in a city.
Disgraceful short termism. Though NI is worse than England and Ireland is among worst in Europe outside city areas. Most fibre has been installed purely cherry picking and to compete with UPC/Virgin Media (TV, phone and 250Mbps cheaper than the DSL copper, typically 3Mbps to 22Mbps).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
