I was tasked recently with coming up with a network gameplan for St. Joe New Cemetery in the Price Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati. They wanted to get a new firewall and install cameras around a maintenance building about 350 feet away among other things. Because the maintenance building is beyond the physical limits of ethernet cables and trenching through gravestones is not a possibility, I had to consider some options. One option could have been a cellular service but those can be spotty and can have limited upload speeds plus an additional cost for the service. Another option would have been to have Altafiber install another fiber connection to that building but then the main office and maintenance building would not be on the same network without site-to-site VPN setup and again additional costs.
The solution we settled on was a Ubiquiti Dream router firewall, Ubiquiti NVR for the cameras and a Ubiquiti building bridge to connect the two buildings. A Ubiquiti building bridge (UBB) is a paired device system that allows 60Ghz wireless communication via two bridges that have line of sight up to 1600 feet. We did have to trim some tree branches and I mounted the maintenance bridge a couple feet up on some rigid pipe but once the line of sight was cleared and the bridges powered via power over ethernet (PoE), it worked flawlessly. At 350 feet, the bridges get 875Mbps to connect the two buildings.
After setting up the firewall, NVR, bridges, some access points, VPN and 8 cameras around 2 buildings with about 1200 feet of new CAT6 – the job is complete! The NVR works great and streaming the cameras via the Unifi Protect app is super simple to setup. I highly recommend this system for the ease of setup and reliability!