[Asterisk-Users] Newbie here. Tips on setting up 100 phones w anted.

[Peter Svensson]

On Fri, 27 May 2005, Colin Anderson wrote:

> >It will be about 100 phones at about 20 locations all within
> >about 4 miles of each other.
> 
> Perhaps a more pressing question might be how you are going to backhaul
> Ethernet in a 4-mile radius. You can't run a Cat 5 cable more than 100
> metres reliably, and using Ethernet repeaters every hundred metres or so
> isn't practical. You will need a fiber backbone or something like that. What
> is your plan to create an Ethernet network to tie these locations together? 

I suppose he could use 10Base5 (Thicknet). That gives you a whooping 500m 
per segment. ;-)

Realistically there are lots of options - fibers, free space optics etc.

Peter