New Ethernet Radio Delivers Up to 1.6 Gbps Per Link

Published on: 17th March 2008

DragonWave has shown off the latest addition to its Horizon portfolio of native Ethernet radios, Horizon Duo -which delivers capacity of up to 1.6 Gbps per link for wireless carriers offering increasingly bandwidth-intensive WiMAX and 3G services.

"With Horizon Duo, DragonWave is dramatically reducing our risk in the rollout of new services and cutting the ongoing cost of churn in our network," said Richard S. Kingston, chief executive officer of Business Only Broadband. "Our growth in bandwidth need is never ending, and Horizon Duo gives us both the high-end capacity and incremental, simple scalability to cost-effectively accommodate this growth."

With a simple indoor-unit replacement, the installed base of DragonWave AirPair radios can be upgraded easily to Horizon Duo for a four-times boost in capacity without changing up-mast gear or cabling. Furthermore, the new DragonWave solution shares DragonWave's software-controlled flex bandwidth feature, enabling users to expand capacity without re-engineering traffic patterns or re-visiting antenna sites.

"Due to the construction costs and timelines required to deploy fiber to so many cell sites, carriers are considering the economic benefit of committing larger percentages of their networks to microwave links," said Michael Howard, Principal Analyst at Infonetics Research. "With the requirement for larger backhaul capacities and the arrival of Ethernet radios rivaling the capacity of fiber-based solutions, we are seeing an increasing reliance on microwave by carriers eager to realize the reductions in both capital and operational expenditures."

 

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