GigaCom's technology is a native IP full speed Gigabit Ethernet microwave link for inter-site links. The Point-to-Point (PTP) products manufactured by GigaCom extend the 1000Base-T connections as if fiber was connected between the sites. In order to perform like fiber, GigaCom's products were designed to have BER amounts to less than 10^-13. The product was designed to operate at Layer 1, thus eliminating the delays and latencies associated with OC3 and DS3 to Ethernet conversions.

The company's products are true carrier-class:

• There are dual carrier grade power supplies.
• The connectors for RF and data interfacing are carrier grade.
• The high performance backplane is capable of channeling full duplex GigE to each port.

The configuration of the product can be mesh, hub, or PTP, or any combination of these configurations depending on the customer application. The company's Consecutive Point Architecture represents a new generation of high capacity radio relay transmission equipment at a low price. The architecture is upgradeable, which reduces capital and operating expenditures for field installation, maintenance, training and spares while maximizing product reliability.

Features

• Native IP transport eliminates the need for expensive SDH or PDH router ports and multiplexers.
• The system can be configured to carry native SONET bits.
• The company's products can tune to the licensed frequency bands of 6, 7, 8, 11, 18, 23, and 38 GHz.
• Interference free systems featuring transmission ranges over 50 miles.
• 2 x E1/T1 plus Voice and Data wayside service channels are always available.
• Option for up to 32 E1/T1 ports.
• 4 x 1000 Base-T + one SFP port is available.
• The product offers extremely low end-to-end transmission latencies.
• Committed Information Rate (CIR) of up to 600 Mbps full duplex per system, and up to 1200 Mbps using dual systems.
• Adaptive Transmit Power Control (ATPC) allows adjusting of output power in discrete increments in response to RF attenuation or interference, enabling dense deployment and simplifying network management.
• The company offers designs that conceal the antenna for aesthetic or regulatory reasons.
• The products are designed to support flexible payload types and data rates.
• The architecture supports ring/consecutive point configurations creating a self-healing redundancy network that is more reliable than traditional PTP networks. The products can perform payload switching in 1+0 unprotected, 2+0 east/west, and 1+1 protected configurations, easily enabling network availability as high as 99.9999% with self-healing ring architectures.
• The protected system supports RX hitless switching and TX switching in less than 50 ms.
• The products are embedded with security features and are resistant to data intercept.
• There are different interface and service options.
• There are network option cards for easy upgrade and expansion.

Product Deployment

There are three ways to deploy the product: all outdoor, all indoor, and an outdoor/indoor split.

• In the all outdoor configuration, the radio, antenna, and modem are all mounted outdoors.
• In the all indoor configuration, only the antenna will be mounted outdoors; the modem and radio mounted indoors, connected to the antenna the antenna via a low-loss waveguide.
• Finally, in the split configuration, the radio and antenna will be mounted outdoors, and the modem is mounted indoors. In this case, the modem and radio are connected via low-loss coaxial cable and more than 1000 feet (305 meters) of separation is allowed. The system provides auto-compensation to determine cable loss (including cable degradation) and will adjust power levels accordingly.

Management

The indoor/outdoor design is compact with simplified provisioning assisted by a Web user-friendly GUI. Local and remote equipment and network management can be performed through Telnet, SNMP v1/v2/v3, and HTTP(S). Management of the network is done through either in-band communications, or over a VLAN.