GE80/AR80 Gigabit Wireless Link

BridgeWave GE80 High-Performance, Affordable, E-Band Gigabit Ethernet Wireless Link

BridgeWave's GE80 and AR80 E-Band Gigabit Ethernet wireless links are the most affordable E-Band (71-86 GHz) products, providing highly-available wireless connections at full GigE data rates. These point-to-point links transmit and receive simultaneously at full-rate GigE speeds (1.25Gbps) with very low latency, providing the performance of physical fiber over a highly-secure wireless connection. The radios feature small form-factor and easy to install and align one-foot antennas. Combined with the E-Band's quick and simply lightweight licensing program, you can get a license and install a link the same day.

GE80 links consist of a pair of fully-integrated outdoor radios that connect directly to the end-user's GigE switches or routers. The radios are mast-mounted, and are easy to install and maintain. To deploy and operate the systems, simply connect a pair of fibers and a pair of low-voltage power wires, aim the radios to point at one another, and perform a few simple steps to configure the built-in web browser-based network management system.

AR80 links add BridgeWave's breakthrough AdaptRate capability. The AR80 is the only E-Band link on the market that quickly shifts between 1000Mbps and 100Mbps data rates in order to overcome the effects of short-lived cloud-burst downpours. This allows AR80 links to be deployed at distances that traditionally required the use of bulky and harder to install two-foot antennas.

Enterprise customers use BridgeWave E-Band links to extend their LAN backbones between nearby buildings, or to connect their buildings over longer distances via metro fiber backbones. By extending LAN backbones between buildings, users can centralize servers to save IT costs and simplify administration, or distribute servers between buildings to provide for rapid disaster recovery.

Network operators use BridgeWave E-Band links to provide private network services to enterprise customers or to implement "virtual fiber" distribution networks to deliver broadband services to residential or business users. GE80 links naturally combine with fiber optic cabling to create highly cost-effective hybrid fiber-wireless networks, where each technology is best suited.

Broadband Wireless System Comparison Matrix

As illustrated by the comparison matrix below, BridgeWave links provide ideal solutions for short-to-medium distance, high-bandwidth applications.

• Industry First: Wire-Speed GigE in a single ODU without compression
• Ultra-high capacity microwave radio system optimized for next generation mobile backhaul
• Operates in the microwave frequency Bands: 18 & 23 GHz initially
• 40 , 50 , 80 , 100 , 150 and 160 MHz channel width configuration options
• Full line rate GigE using a single ODU
• Capacity upgrade via SW license file
• Native Ethernet support
• Carrier Grade Network management
• All ODU design – Small Form Factor
• Leverages BW’s experience in high capacity systems development

Ease of Use: All-outdoor design;
Field-pluggable SFPs available with multi-mode, single mode, or copper interlaces;
Web based & SNMP management

Proven Reliability:
Based on proven design - thousands of full-rate GigE millimeter wave terminals installed;
Rigorous HALT/HASS testing;
Up to 99.999% carrier-grade availability;

Simple GigE Implementation:
Less hardware to install than other microwave systems
Lower dollar per megabit total cost of ownership
Smaller & lighter than solutions requiring two ODUs and combiners
No tower climb for upgrades;

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