Take your microwave path design to the next level with our Aviat Design application.
The most integrated solution for all your microwave path planning needs, Aviat Design is now more accurate, user-friendly, and is accessible anytime, anywhere.
Aviat Design is…
Fast. Complete all your link designs in just a few clicks.
Accurate. Using Aviat’s recently updated Starlink libraries and algorithms and clutter map.
Easy. All radio specs are fully integrated… no pathloss files to download. Access it anytime, anywhere.
Intuitive. Adjust parameters and generate path profiles in less time all in a user-friendly Google-maps interface.
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Aviat Design – With more simplified views and streamlined calculation methods, you can design your links quicker and easier than ever before.
Benefits when compared to other path design tools
- Access anywhere. Cloud based tool requiring no software or downloads – easy access and always have latest version.
- Intuitive. Adjust parameters on the fly to optimize performance, generate path profiles, Google-maps interface.
- Easy. Path calculations to be completed with a few clicks.
- Up to date database with Aviat Networks equipment. No pathloss files to worry about.
- Fixed or ACM calculation of links using same integrated database.
- Template system that allows to use any radio and antenna configuration for offered protection schemes.
- Automatic loading of environmental parameters allows quick and precise calculation.
- More precise path profiles with clutter layer (USA)
- Ability to overlay networks in Google Earth
- Ability to determine if Space Diversity is needed for paths over water and smooth terrain.
Aviat Design is the next generation microwave planning tool. It uses the latest SaaS web technology to allow users to design microwave links anytime and anywhere. Aviat Design supports the full portfolio of Aviat Network’s equipment and protection configurations. Special features allow users to design microwave links accurately and quickly.
FCC Licenses Layers
Sharing Feature
Path Profile
Automatic Antenna Centerline
Clutter map / Terrain ‘Fly-by’ (USA)
Create radio templates
Reflection analysis (used to calculate space diversity antenna spacing)
Google Earth export
- MARCH 2021
- Added WTM 4811 (11 GHz) and WTM 4880_OMT (XPIC).
- LOS MIMO support for WTM 4200. Tool calculates optimal MIMO antenna separation. If antenna separation is not optimal calculates threshold degradation.
- Main antenna second and Space Diversity clearance criteria. Default criteria are automatically loaded for Vigants or ITU calculations methods from link coordinates.
- Minimum K as specified in ITU R. P -520 -17. Minimum K can be added to Main antenna first or second criteria.
- A2C+ for WTM 4100 (Improved RF if compared to A2C).
- Added 17 GHz ETSI, 31 GHz (ETSI and ANSI), and 28 GHz ANSI frequency bands to the tool.
- Adjustable Clutter Heights. Clutter heights and color can now be edited by the user.
- JUNE 2020
- A2C links now automatically use A2C power (no need to manually add losses for A2C). This feature works for WTM 4100 and multi-band links.
- A warning window now alerts users when the maximum received signal is exceeded. Users can set the maximum received signal level and choose to automatically reduce it.
- The updated GUI now includes the ability to create folders. This allows users to organize their projects. Folders can contain unlimited sub-folders. Shared projects are set in separate folder.
- The link lines color scheme has been changed to reflect frequency band. The FCC layer has been synchronized with same color scheme.
- The display of links in a project map can be clustered. This is especially useful for very large projects were rendering time can become slow. Clustering can be enabled or disabled by user and cluster size can be changed.
- JANUARY 2020
- Modified GUI with following improvements:
- Simplified project overview window. Projects can be sorted alphabetically or by completion date.
- Coordinates for sites can now be locked in main map to prevent accidental movement.
- Links can be sorted alphabetically or by completion date in main map design window.
- Sites can be searched in map window.
- Added map view to PDF network report
- Ability to select a portion of the path profile to calculate terrain roughness for the Vigants multipath method. The tool now offers two roughness calculation methods:
- Sea Level Reference
- Least Mean square fit
- Back end automation to ensure Aviat Design always uses latest radio specifications (no outdated Pathloss™ files to worry about) .
- Updated the Vigants Multipath method and worst month to annual availability conversion.
- Updated and reviewed ITU-P.R 530-17 multipath method.
- Updated rain ITU rain to ITU-R P.530-17 method.
- Various bug fixes
- Modified GUI with following improvements:
- MAY 2019 – Sharing Feature – Share your link designs and collaborate with your teammates, manager or your customers
- Updated database with most current Aviat Networks products including:
- WTM4100, WTM4200, and WTM4500.
- ODU600v1 /ODU600v2 with RAC60/6X,RAC70 and RAC1X/2X.
- IRU600v3/v4 with RAC60/6X,RAC70 , and RAC1X/2X.
- WTM3300/WTM5800.
- Clutter Layer (USA) using USGS National Land Cover Database (NLCD).
- Automatic antenna center line height estimation to clear obstacles in the path profile.
- Network export to Google Earth.
- Reflection analysis for paths over water and smooth terrain.
- Improved reports including a complete network report.
- Ability to show results for “Two way” and “One way” combined multipath and rain availability.
FCC Licenses Layers feature
Design Your Mult-Band Links in AviatCloud
Sharing Feature
Introducing Aviat Design 2 0
Aviat Design New Features
Logging in/Project Creation
Radio Template Creation
Link Settings
Link Creation
Reflection Analysis
Improved Mapping
Google Earth Export
Antenna Template Creation
Automatic Antenna CL
Our free Aviat Design tool is continually being enhanced to make your link design as smooth and efficient as possible. We are certain you will find these new features useful. Take a look at them below, or better yet – sign in or register for Aviat Design today to take the new feature for a spin at www.aviatcloud.com.
Hot on the heels of the FCC’s announcement to open the 6 GHz band to unlicensed radios, we recently announced the launch of our new FCC Licenses Layer feature. Our new FCC Licenses Layer will allow users to overlay a layer with existing FCC licenses around one site within a radius. The feature will show users what spot frequencies are available in the area where they want to deploy their microwave links. Sign in or register for Aviat Design today to take the new feature for a spin. www.aviatcloud.com
Author: Stuart Little, Director, International Product Line Marketing
Have you heard the buzz about Multi-Band? Multi-Band combines traditional microwave channel alongside an E-Band (80 GHz) channel, joining the capacity of the latter with the high availability of the former. Multi-Band makes E-Band carrier-class over longer distances, making it a much more viable and deployable solution for 5G backhaul.
Aviat Design, Aviat’s cloud-based link planning application, supports WTM 4800 E-Band and Multi-band designs. Aviat Design is the industry’s first and only integrated Multi-band link design solution showing a combined view of availability and capacity for the link. This enables easy, fast, intuitive E-Band and Multi-Band designs (all specs included, no pathloss files to download or update, easy cloud access). Popular design tools will require 2 separate link calculations for Multi-Band, and will not result in a combined design for the link, making it virtually impossible to understand the expected link performance or capacity or estimate the proper antenna size. Aviat Design is FREE for use at www.aviatcloud.com.
For new entrants and smaller WISPs, cost is often the major factor in infrastructure procurement. However, many WISPs who used to be in those categories are today enjoying significant growth, prompting them to rethink infrastructure investments as part of their overall business plan.
By Eduardo Sanchez, Marketing Engineer Specialist, US
Aviat Design 2.0 is the next generation microwave planning tool. It uses the latest SaaS web technology to allow users to design microwave links anytime and anywhere. Aviat Design 2.0 supports the full portfolio of Aviat Networks equipment and protection configurations. Special features allow users to design microwave links accurately and quickly.