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Aviat Networks wins best Microwave Backhaul Provider award in Ghana
At the recently concluded Ghana Telecom Awards held in May 2015, Aviat Networks won the Microwave Backhaul Vendor award for the second year in a row. Based on a survey of telecom industry participants, Aviat bested all the other major microwave specialists and one of...
Telecom Industry Participants call on FCC for E-band Action
Back in April the telecom experts over at CommLawBlog weighed in on a simmering issue in the 70-80GHz radio space. Since October 2012, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has mulled over a motion by the Fixed Wireless Communications Coalition (FWCC) to relax...
Layer 3 intelligence: cell sites need more than dumb pipes
Once upon a time, cell sites served as little more than passive pass-throughs for phone calls and text messages. Because voice calls and SMS posts did not require much wireless capacity cell sites did not require very robust provisioning. Now that the Internet has...
WLAN Provider uses Microwave Networking for Backbone
In Austria, people love their coffee, and they love their Internet. WLAN provider NETcompany makes sure they get both, with high-speed wireless access via hotspots at cafés and other popular places with the help of microwave networking. Serving a core business...
IP/MPLS: Coming to a Village near you
Whether the local police department responding to a burglary call or firefighters putting out a blaze in the historic district, first responders across America rely on mission-critical communications infrastructure to provide timely, reliable and secure voice, video...
Your Network Deserves Better than a Regular Router
Mobile network operators (MNOs) continue to reap the windfall of the widespread adoption of smartphones. Mobile data volumes spiked initially and still rise quarter over quarter. Along with the demand for more data throughput from their subscribers, MNOs have to...
Converged Microwave Traffic Emerges in Africa
In South Africa, as in many emerging markets, wireless backhaul has long been a proverbial bottleneck to network growth. Due to cost and logistics, fiber optic technology remains out of reach as a practical solution for most aggregation scenarios, save for urban...
The Shellshock IT Vulnerability in Relation to Microwave Radio
Since the beginning of October 2014, there has been a lot of coverage in the technology press concerning the so-called "Shellshock" or "Bash Bug" computer vulnerability. All the coverage has been exclusively related to general IT and computer systems. But how does...
Mt. Otto: 11,000-foot Microwave Site Install in Papua New Guinea
In all its years, Aviat Networks has installed a great many microwave radios and in some very interesting places. On the sides of the largest dams. On top of the most famous bridges. Deep in the Aboriginal Outback. Way out to sea. In the frozen wastes of the Great...
We Put the Spotlight on Voice Over LTE (VoLTE)
As one of the most anticipated network technologies, Voice over LTE (VoLTE) has been discussed by operators for years. The expectation was that deployments would start in 2013, but roll-outs in North America were delayed. Operators have faced a series of issues that...
FIPS: What is it? Why is it Important?
FIPS stands for Federal Information Processing Standards, a set of computer security standards established by the US federal Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The goal of FIPS is to create a uniform level of security for...
Positively Sold on MPLS at the Cell Site
MPLS at the cell site via microwave routers will positively supercharge service revenues for mobile operators. Photo credit: Thomas Gehrke / Foter / Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Mobile industry enthusiasts have been...