Aviat Puts the Plus in A2C+
- September 9, 2021
- A2C+, Adaptive Dual Carrier, capex, double capacity, High Priority Traffic, higher MTBF, lowest TCO, OPEX, rural broadband, simplify deployment, TCO, Total Cost of Ownership
Demand for mobile data is soaring, and microwave is seen as the primary transport medium in rural and suburban areas. Aviat’s WTM 4000 enables double capacity (2+0) microwave links by housing two transceivers, two diplexers, and a 3dB coupler in one compact all-outdoor solution.
Lowering TCO with All-Indoor, Single Antenna 6+11 GHz Multi-Band
- April 22, 2021
- 11 GHz, 11GHz, 6 GHz, 6GHz, 80 GHz E-Band, IRU 600, L1LA, Layer 1 link aggregation, multi-band, multiband, multiband radio, OPEX, TCO, Total Cost of Ownership, WIFI 6e
With the current landscape of network economics and challenges associated with capacity and spectrum, having multiple tools for link deployments, capacity growth, and future-proofing are necessary. In this blog, we’ll discuss the concept of Microwave Multi-Band, or the use of two different microwave frequency bands over one link, and specifically the combination of 6 GHz and 11 GHz.
Part 2: How to Reduce Your Tower Leasing Costs
- February 17, 2021
- capex, how to reduce CAPEX, Microwave Total Cost, OPEX, system gain, Total Cost of Ownership, Tower Lease, tower lease costs, tower leasing, wind-loading
With tower outsourcing increasing, operators can minimize tower lease costs by reducing the size of their microwave antennas with higher system gain radios.
5 ways to improve your all-outdoor microwave radio buying process
- November 16, 2020
- all-outdoor radios, automated network, buy microwave, cart sharing, e-commerce, Internet Service Provider, ISP, microwave online store, online store, order placement, quoting, radio inventory, Total Cost of Ownership, UK WISP, wireless Internet service provider, wisp
Most radio buying processes haven’t changed for years. Some orders are still placed by picking up the phone, emailing a request, waiting for a response, and then juggling multiple POs. It’s such a long process to manage from start to finish. Aviat Store solves all those issues and more.
Part 1: Aviat’s System Gain Advantage and the Positive Impact on your Microwave Network’s Total Cost of Ownership
- October 13, 2020
- antenna sub-system, capex, how to reduce CAPEX, microwave antenas, MIMO, smaller antennas, Space Diversity, system gain, TCO, Total Cost of Ownership, Tower Lease, transmit power, wind-loading
One of the most significant contributors to the total cost of ownership of a microwave transmission network is the antenna sub-system.
TWS successfully trials Aviat WTM 4800 multi-band solution during mid-winter
- August 5, 2020
- Microwave Radio, multi-band, multiband, spectrum costs, spectrum savings, Total Cost of Ownership
TWS technologies, based in the Netherlands, are always looking for new systems to enable reliable connections for their customers, anytime, anywhere.
Safaricom deploys Aviat Multi-Band to dramatically lower their backhaul TCO
- July 23, 2020
- Microwave Radio, multi-band, multiband, spectrum costs, spectrum savings, Total Cost of Ownership
Safaricom, the largest telecom company in Kenya, recently selected Aviat’s WTM 4800 multi-band radio platform to support their 5G backhaul rollout.
Digicel and Aviat establish 166km link in Papua New Guinea between its two largest cities
- July 15, 2020
- 10 Gbps radios, Microwave Radio, spectrum costs, Total Cost of Ownership, WTM 4000, WTM 4500
In 2015, PNG outlined its Vision 2050, committing the government to promote the social and economic development of the nation by that date. National leaders spoke of W.W. Rostow’s five-stage model of development. The second of those stages is all important: the building of infrastructure necessary for the success of all sectors of economic and social life, which includes manufacturing, technology, transportation, and communication.
Did you know?…Deploying Multi-Band instead of traditional Microwave can improve capacity by 20x
- November 7, 2019
- millimeter wave radio, multi-band, Total Cost of Ownership, WTM 4800
Are you considering deploying microwave links in your network? Instead of deploying 15, 18 or 23 GHz why not try WTM 4800 Multi-Band with 80/xxGHz. You can replace your microwave links with Multi-Band which combines E-Band and traditional microwave (15/18/23GHz) on a single link over a single antenna to drastically improve capacity that can be typically achieved by microwave alone.
Sub-Band Free Radios – Do they really help?
- December 20, 2018
- all-outdoor, Microwave Radio, MTBF, ODU, outdoor radio, radios, RF, RF Performance, sub-band free, TCO, Total Cost of Ownership
By Stuart Little, Director of International Product Line Marketing
In the past years, a few microwave vendors have introduced ‘sub-band free’ RF outdoor units into the market. The main claim of these radios is that a single hardware variant can be deployed in any frequency sub-band, simplifying and lower costs involved with ordering, deployment and sparing of microwave networks.
However, these new radios are not available in all bands and come with a number of limitations, including lower RF performance, larger size, and weight, higher cost, limitations in modulation and channel sizes, amongst others.
State-Wide Microwave Network Case Study: Extra High Power Radios
- February 24, 2017
- Antennas, Aviat Networks, backhaul, IRU 600, Microwave backhaul, public safety, Total Cost of Ownership
This large western US state had a longtime relationship with a microwave radio vendor and would have continued buying from them if their radios and support evolved with the State’s needs. However, over time its needs changed and it had to have more capabilities from its communications network. But it did not want to unnecessarily build new sites and erect costly new towers.
85 Microwave Operators tell us their Biggest Backhaul Challenge
- July 30, 2013
- backhaul, custom survey, Ethernet, internet, Internet Protocol, microwave, microwave antennae, MIMO, Mobile network operator, network throughput, quantifiable data, TCO, Total Cost of Ownership
England: Campion Hills communications mast with microwave antennae. Photo credit: David Stowell [CC-BY-SA-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
85 mobile operators were selected and surveyed globally, including a good cross-section from both developed and emerging markets. The respondents were screened to ensure that they all had a stake in microwave-specific backhaul: 93 percent had deployed microwave and the rest had plans to deploy it. In fact, 45 percent were categorized as heavy microwave users—those where more than 50 percent of their cell sites were served by microwave backhaul.
So we asked this select group, which consisted of mostly planners, engineers and strategy leaders, “What is the biggest challenge your company faces regarding the future development and deployment of microwave backhaul?”
The results were interesting in that “total cost of ownership” actually eclipsed “increasing capacity” as their biggest challenge, as shown in the pie chart of survey responses below.