@Ben Backus wrote:
Is there a table out there that relates expected bandwidth vs duty cycle and distance? It would be nice to have a rough idea for site planning. We have settled on 9miles as it seems to provide the best bandiwdth and distrance from our emperical evidence, but if we can increase our outbound by x amount by building more sites to cover the same area it would be nice to know.
Hi Ben,
There isnt a table that relates the two parameters since there are more parameters that impact the bandwidth you can expect. Also each deployment is unique in terms of number of SMs, distance of each SM, MCS levels achieved on downlink and uplink per SM, terrain etc. I recommend plugging in values into the ePMP Capacity Planner or even better use LINKPlanner to predict the performance. In fact, impact of Max Range to sector performance is negligible compared to the other parameters I listed above.
Thanks,
Sriram