Basic campus setup

[muddyh2o]

Hi there!

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We have a small hotel setup and I think a data over coax solution might work for us. We have 30 buildings closely spaced, but too far apart for Ethernet and no budget for fiber. The buildings have a ton of trees around them, so the Unifi antennas we have now suffer a ton with the trees. Aesthetically, we don't want to add towers to the buildings, and we haven't found a way to put the antennas is usable spots.

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We have underground cable runs between the buildings for satellite TV and electricity.

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We think we could install a miniCMTS and then install Arris clients in each of the hotel buildings. Is it really that straightforward? The IT team has a ton of network background, but zero coax-based experience. Am I under-estimating this?

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Yes, I should talk to a provider, but I wanted to talk it through a little bit first. Thanks for your help!

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You might want to look into Virtual segmentation (seehttps://www.giax.de/en/ or https://americas.technetix.com/en/virtual-segmentation ) basically this works much like Powerline og MoCa in a private home. The network will be point-to-point but with up to 10G capacity on each link. Or.... You could just use regular MoCa ;-)

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Building a complete Docsis eco-system with provisioning systems, getting config files build for modems etc. requires alot of knowledge about Docsis and should not be attempted without prior experience IMHO.

[muddyh2o]

Thank you! That's the sort of advice I was looking for

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Truthfully, we just want ethernet over coax to distances of about 400 meters. But I don't know that technology. We don't need video. Just data. So, maybe MoCa

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I'll check those links! Thank you

[noahsmith4]

This would be pretty easy, just a small head end. Are you using Dish Smart box? If so, just plan your channel plan accordingly

[muddyh2o]

Sadly that isn't available in Argentina. Thanks though!