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How to Prepare your Transport Network for the Next Big Disaster
By Randy Jenkins, Director, Business Development Commercial mobile networks in the US are morphing into critical infrastructure as homeowners abandon their landline phones and rely instead on their mobile phones. Critical alerts, evacuation information, and family...
Case Study: Lowering Backbone TCO in PNG with All-Outdoor Radio
By Stuart Little, Director of International Product Line Marketing Papua New Guinea, or PNG, is one half of the island of New Guinea, along with offshore islands, located in the South Pacific immediately to the north of the Australian continent. The country is rugged...
Mobile Security
When people think of mobile security, they usually think of encryption for their smartphones, tablet computers such as the BlackBerry PlayBook or other wireless devices. Or they think of a remote "wipe" capability that can render any lost device blank of any data if...
Winning solutions for the Big Data “Space Race”
By Brandon Sheffield, Automation Programmer/Analyst In every school across America, children are taught to revere the era of the “Space Race” and its impact on the human footprint. Whether it was in the private or public sector, the world was electric with an...
What’s Wrong with Transport Routing?
By Gary Croke, Sr. Director of Marketing and Strategy “Transport routing,” a term that may be new to many, simply refers to routing application in the transport (or backhaul) portion of the network. These transport networks can be based on fiber, microwave, millimeter...
Introducing Aviat Design 2.0 – Aviat’s FREE Link Planning Tool
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...
Simplifying MPLS Transport Networks with Segment Routing
By Said Jilani, Sr. Customer Solutions Architect MPLS is a mature technology that has been deployed by service providers and private networks for many years. In a time of building pressure for organizations to modernize transport infrastructure to support new...
Microwave Remains Operational through Field Fires in George, South Africa
The Garden Route district is located along a 300 kilometer stretch of the south-eastern coast of South Africa in Western Cape province, about 450 kilometers east of Cape Town. It’s a popular tourist destination, especially in spring and summer. However, its lush...
State of Colorado’s Lessons Learned from Spring Fire 2018
Unfortunately, throughout much of the western half of the USA, wildfires have become all too common. Moreover, with the recent fires in California this month, things seem to be getting worse. Wildfires and other natural disasters can have significant impacts to...
Space Diversity and Lowering TCO
By Stuart Little, Director of International Product Line Marketing, US Space diversity has been an important feature in long haul microwave systems for many years to counteract the effects of multi-path fading. Space diversity enables very long links over highly...
The Role of Microwave in Rural Broadband
According to NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association, broadband use has multiplied by more than twenty times since the early 2000s. However, three out of every ten Americans still do not enjoy its benefits. That represents a sizable market, and a good part of that market...
Wireless Backhaul is Not Dead Yet
By Stuart Little, Director of International Product Line Marketing, US This Halloween, zombies aren't the only thing coming to life. Evolutions in e-band and multi-band mean wireless will play a crucial role in the rollout of 5G. 5G is coming (and hopefully it won’t...