May 3, 2023
Find the Perfect Tower for Your Microwave Link with Aviat Design’s Crown Castle Layer
As a leading provider of microwave and wireless networking solutions, Aviat has developed a range of innovative tools and technologies to help businesses and organizations improve their network infrastructure. One of our offerings is Aviat Design, a free tool for designing microwave links that features a powerful new addition: the Crown Castle layer.
April 27, 2023
Maximizing Your Business’s Potential: The 4 Benefits of Financing Equipment
When it comes to purchasing new equipment for your business, finding the right financing solution is crucial. Not only can financing help you preserve your cash reserves, but it can also allow you to spread the cost of equipment purchases out over time and take advantage of tax benefits.
April 13, 2023
Out with Backorders, in with Aviat: The Microwave Link Provider That Delivers on Time
In today's fast-paced world, high-speed internet connectivity is crucial for businesses. To keep their networks operational, service providers must efficiently deploy microwave links. Unfortunately, backorders from manufacturers often create challenges, negatively affecting business growth and scalability.
March 5, 2020
Revolutionizing 5G Mission Critical Transport Networks (Part 2)
Part 1 of our “Revolutionizing 5G Mission Critical Transport Networks” blog post series addressed microwave versus fiber as the better solution for mission critical 5G. We now continue our exploration focusing on mission critical use cases. Many critical applications, such as connected/autonomous cars, industrial Internet of Things (IoT), M2M, and public safety applications, require consistent reliability from their mobile networks. Under threat of multi-day outages from disasters and other types of network downtime and service outages, mobile networks must ensure the reliability and resiliency needed for 5G operation and its critical missions.
February 28, 2020
Revolutionizing 5G Mission Critical Transport Networks (Part 1)
When lives and property are at stake, a reliable transport is crucial. As it has for decades, microwave will play a key role in keeping 5G mission-critical network up and running.
January 15, 2020
Ovum Insights: Mission-critical applications drive 5G transport requirements
by Don Frey, Principal Analyst, Transport and Routing
don.frey@ovum.co
5G network services promise higher-speed connections, greater reliability, and low latency. Industrial applications will drive new mobile IoT applications that support mission-critical applications. These demands have led to the development of 5G, built to support an abundance of IoT, higher capacity, and very low latency connections.
December 5, 2019
Did you know?…Multi-Band makes the most sense only when you combine E-Band with Licensed Microwave
As we have talked about in previous posts, Multi-Band is a great way to improve the reliability and reach of E-Band, or to increase the capacity of licensed microwave bands, by combining both into a single, easy-to-deploy solution. More recently, we have seen Multi-Band solutions that utilize unlicensed 5 GHz band radios in place of licensed bands like 15, 18, or 23 GHz, but does this actually make sense?
October 31, 2019
Multi-Band in the Real World – Case Study of Aviat’s Single Box Multi-Band Link
Aviat Networks is pleased to announce that its new WTM 4815 multi-band backhaul solution has passed its first real world deployment with flying colors. The unit sailed through a battery of benchmarks under challenging weather conditions in a tropical climate. The link used the WTM 4815’s 80 GHz (E-Band) and 15 GHz (millimeter band) frequencies to deliver the best of both worlds over the link—a leap forward in capacity and throughput on one hand and enhanced link stability on the other.
October 18, 2019
Takeaways from 5G Transport and the Edge Panel Discussion on RAN Architecture & the Implications for 5G Transport
Randy Jenkins, Aviat Networks’ Director of Business Development for North America, attended the “5G Transport & the Edge” meeting of technology leaders in New York on October 10. He sat on the microwave transport in the 5G environment panel, titled “Redefining the Access Network: Examining RAN Architecture & the Implications for 5G Transport.”
August 29, 2019
Multi-Band – The Future of 5G Transport
The Problem
E-Band Lacks Availability in Some Cases
For years, E-Band has been touted as the next big thing. Likewise, 80GHz technology and solutions have been around for several years, yet the demand has not taken off. Why is that? Well, there are a few excellent reasons:
August 23, 2019
Whitepaper: High Capacity + Availability: Multi-Band is the right solution for 5G backhaul
Author: Stuart Little, Director, International Product Line Marketing
Multi-Band, not microwave or millimeter-wave, is the solution for 5G Backhaul.
Why? Microwave bands are limited in capacity, particularly in countries and bands where spectrum is limited due to congestion. Even if you can get additional frequencies, scaling capacity means aggregating multiple channels that results in high equipment costs and potentially expensive recurring spectrum fees. E-Band alone is not sufficient either. With more bandwidth available that enables higher capacities, E-Band suffers from a number of potential limitations, from short link distances and high susceptibility to rain outage and pole/tower sway to difficult and time-consuming installation/antenna alignment.
August 9, 2019
Multi-Band means high value at a cost that makes sense
Multi-Band involves combining E-Band (70-80GHz) with traditional microwave (6-42GHz) on a single microwave link, usually with a single antenna on each end. Multi-Band drastically improves availability and distance of E-Band links and addresses other issues like pole sway and antenna alignment. If you are thinking of E-Band or microwave, consider Multi-Band, in particular single-box Multi-Band. Check out our infographic below to find out how single-box Multi-Band means high value at a cost that makes sense.