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I am currently working on a medium sized cabling project for a local church. It consists of three buildings (the church, a neighboring house used for office and a building behind the house they use for activities) I will be running 25pair outdoor phone cable between the house (where the networking and telephone equipment will be housed) to carry the phone service to each building. However they will also be housing all the network equipment and internet connection in this room and I am looking for the best solution to connect the two buildings to the house. I was thinking a multi-pair outdoor ariel cat 5e to connect the switches in each building to the main switch. Is there such a cable? Or would the easiest method be a wireless bridge between the house and the two outer buildings? Any input on this would be appreciated.

I do have two other projects where the only solution is wireless, anyone prefer a manufactur with wireless bridge solutions?

as long as your pulling cable anyway pull fiber between the bldg's

What is the distance between the buildings? Fiber would be the best solution. If the distance is short enough for cable then that would be the second choice. I see a unit demo by Omni WiFi a few weeks ago that was impressive.

Moving to Outside Wire Construction. This has nothing to do with networking.

-Hal

This cable will be used for data between the buildings, therefore networking. Fiber is not an option. Anyone have expierence with Engenius Bridges? To me that seems like a probable solution. The farthest distance between the house and the church is around 200 feet, plus 50 or more feet once inside and routed to the data room within the church.

For any bridge, check the actual throughput rate, not just the claimed speed.
Inexpensive units will do for most small apps.
For heavy traffic Alvarion or Cisco.
I have had 30 computers and 8 voip trunks running over an Alvarion radio. No problems. The traffic graph was very small. The Alvarion was overkill.
Had a school with 20 computers and 6 voip trunks running off an 800.00 bundle off the internet, they got it. Just shooting across the street.

Why is fiber not an option? Since you have to run cable anyways I would recommend a fiber while you're at it.

That would be my question also. And as for it being a network and not a cable question, why is it that CGs only consider data but never understand what it takes to get from point A to point B? I'm talking about BEPs and grounding for that 25 pair (hopefully messengered CAT nothing OSP cable) as well as any metallic data cable. This is why we recommend fiber wherever possible because it eliminates at least some these issues.

-Hal

Like Hal said,

Once you take in the cost of primary and secondary protection for copper, your cost for fiber is very close. Take a good hard look at all your cost with the copper, and make a educated comparison.

We have 4 or 5 companies that are connected with fiber and the cost was about the same.

Remember that you have no lightning or surge issues with fiber as well. Plus you can run IP phones if needed with no bandwidth problems on the fiber.

Good Luck

Cosmo