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[Backhaul and Resiliency in Less than Ideal Environments] Over the past few weeks we have been preparing to support a two-day public event south of Austin, Texas by extending a wireline connection via point-to-point to a skeet and shooting range. The existing wireline connection and the radio link between the DMARC and the shop (our origination point) were designed and implemented by a third party. The layout looks something like this: Building with wireline connection DMARC <-- P2P Link --> Shop <-- Our P2P Link --> Skeet Range building. From the final P2P location we distributed wifi via a Meraki MR84 to the surrounding area. We used Ubiquiti Wave Nano radios for our P2P link, a Ubiquiti Flex Utility enclosure and Flex Switch for the landing point and PoE for the P2P link and downlink to our Meraki MR84. After turning up the P2P link and wifi AP we found that we were getting significantly lower throughput than our initial testing indicated. After some investigation we realized there were changes to the line of sight between the first P2P link that was already built and, as this was the day before the event and the throughput was not enough to sustain event operations, we had to find a solution in short order. Despite the area being dusty/dirty, not having ideal mounting for our devices, and not a lot of options with regard to line of sight to the wireline DMARC to move our P2P link, we were able to drop in one of our LlamaBox units (the neon green/yellow box in the picture) housing a Peplink BR2 Pro 5G and Max Adapter 5G. We used Peplink's SpeedFusion technology to bond our P2P link with Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile data to get an unbreakable connection for the duration of the two day event. While the "just make it work" implementation was far less than ideal, the connectivity was rock solid and enabled the event staff to operate as normal.

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