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Basin Electric Team Tests Microwave Equipment
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Rules of the Game: Low Latency Microwave in a Multi-Regulatory Environment
Over the course of the last 18 months, a new application has grown by leaps and bounds for microwave networks: low latency. Low-latency microwave networks find most of their applicability in financial transactions, such as for executing trading instructions between...
A (Personal) Milestone in Microwave Networking
Recently, Aviat Networks was privileged to mark a milestone for one of its longest tenured and most distinguished employees, Ivan Zambrano. For 28 years, Ivan has dedicated his professional life to providing education and expert analysis to the microwave backhaul...
Should National Telecom Regulators Impose Buildout Requirements on Operators?
In the mobile operator space in many countries, the national regulators are imposing so-called “buildout requirements” as a license condition on many wireless providers. In some countries, these requirements are restricted to licenses awarded by the auction process...
85 Microwave Operators tell us their Biggest Backhaul Challenge
The general mobile industry sentiment has typically been that the capacity bottleneck is the biggest challenge in backhaul. Thus, the focus has been on adding more capacity to address the surge of 3G and now 4G traffic. So you might think that this concern would rank...
Come Fly with Me: Aviat Microwave Over-the-Air at U.S. Landmarks
Frank Sinatra, “Old Blue Eyes,” would have been the perfect pitchman for Aviat Networks. From Los Angeles to Chicago to New York, Sinatra’s many hit songs were inspired by the big cities of America. Since the time Sinatra began his illustrious singing career, Aviat...
LTE Backhaul: The View from Africa
LTE has been moving more and more to the forefront in mobile cellular networks around the world. Africa, and particularly the Republic of South Africa, is the latest hotbed of LTE rollouts, with the leading country operators of Vodacom, MTN and Cell C coming online...
If Microwave Didn’t Exist for Small Cells, We’d Have to Invent It!
Small cells get all the press! As LTE rolls out in networks on every continent except Antarctica, small cells are grabbing headlines in technology trades and geek fan-boy blogs across the Internet. They’ll be needed sooner or later to provide LTE access in all those...
The Problem with C-RAN is Fronthaul
With the mobile telecommunications space facing an onslaught of data-hungry subscribers and their migration to LTE, operators have embarked on a quest to pack even more service in smaller and smaller service areas. The frontier of these smaller service areas have come...
5.8GHz FCC Rule Change: Good or Bad?
In the United States, the fixed service for wireless communications usually operates in bands licensed either on a link-by-link basis or by block allocation. So why is the 5.8GHz ISM band so important and why should the industry be concerned about current FCC...
THE Mobile Marketplace: Towers, Small Cells and Backhaul
This week, Aviat Networks participated in the very well attended CTIA 2013 wireless and mobile trade show in Las Vegas. The theme for this year’s event was "THE Mobile Marketplace" with various areas of focus dealing with applications, devices and, of course,...
What Does it Take to Get the Most out of Your Wireless Backhaul?
Wireless backhaul operators, both mobile phone networks and others carrying dedicated traffic, face the constant issue of maximizing the functionality of their systems. In the emerging markets around the world, the pressure can be most intense. Wireless network...