WALKair

Point-to-Multipoint Radio Solution for Advanced Services

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More and more companies are The Power you need... ...to bring Power to your Customers! System Architecture 2/3 entering the telecommunications 4/5 market as fixed, mobile or CATV 6/7 network operators and, in some cases, as Internet service providers. This means that more providers are angling for the same number of subscribers. In this type of competitive environment, subscribers select the network operator who offers the best and widest range of services at the lowest cost; commercial subscribers are especially keen on competitive prices and services. WALKair offers you the power to easily surpass the expectations of even the most demanding customer.

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Bandwidth and services Pressure from subscribers for Internet access, web sites, PABX, multimedia and high-speed data transfer is increasing and along with it the amount of required bandwidth. As a result, a basic prerequisite for existing and future applications is an advanced infrastructure that allows you to provide services like Leased Lines, frame relay, ISDNPRA, ISDN-BA and even ATM access to your customers premises using standard interfaces. Having unlimited amounts of bandwidth availability gives you the technical leverage you need to tap new sources of revenue and stay competitive in challenging deregulated markets. The best of both worlds: WALKair Radio in the Local Loop Excavation and underground maintenance make conventional copper-based access one of the most expensive access options around this work is unnecessary if you implement WALKair. Radio in the Local Loop (RLL) ensures quick and easy installation, minimizes your initial investment and gives you optimum flexibility when it comes to expanding both your networks and the range of services you provide. WALKair offers important commercial subscribers customized access cost-effectively. It also provides new broadband services in a matter of hours instead of months, compared with copper. WALKair is also ideal as a feeder system for base stations in cellular and fixed radio networks or for other access network products, like FastLink. Minimize investment and maximize profit with RLL solutions from WALKair. WALKair is the optimum solution for any wireless access network because it combines the advantages of RLL with standard interfaces. WALKairs advanced point-to-multipoint (PMP) radio transmission technology has two main advantages: Its scaleable bandwidth capability satisfies even the most demanding broadband requirements, and its advanced radio technology offers unmatched radio efficiency, extremely high coverage range per cell as well as extreme flexibility. WALKair delivers scaleable bandwidth between 64 Kbit/s and 4 Mbit/s directly to your customers premises and supports a wide range of services transparently, making it particularly advantageous for small and medium-sized commercial subscribers.

Summary WALKair is a point-to-multipoint radio system that offers the broadband capacities and flexible bit rates necessary to support high-speed, high-resolution services for small to mediumsize enterprises. This RLL solution allows you to provide advanced services and respond immediately to changing market requirements. WALKair offers quick and easy installation, allows you to tailor your network to your customers needs and optimizes your investment. WALKair provides the kind of competitive agility to make sure you are always one step ahead of the rest. WALKair guarantees you unsurpassed system performance in terms of capacity and range and allows you to tailor your network to prevailing market conditions. The network operator that distinguishes itself from competitors retains customer loyalty and gains new sources of revenue that last well into the future.

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Compete effectively and distinguish yourself from would-be competitors with an access system that supports the services your customers want, when they want. WALKair furnishes broadband services from multiple sources voice and data switches, Internet content providers and even mobile networks can be immediately implemented anywhere in your access network. Give your customers the power they need to compete more effectively and you will both be winners. Broadband means business WALKairs efficient use of available radio channels enables customer bandwidth capacities of up to 4 Mbit/s. Small and medium-size businesses benefit the most from WALKairs higher bit rates and advanced services. Depending on information transfer requirements, bandwidth can be scaled from 64 Kbit/s to 4 Mbit/s. Thus, WALKair allows the network operator to respond swiftly and flexibly within hours of the systems initiation, your customers have access to workstations, routers, content servers, PABXs and ISDN telephones. Feed-system potential All features are based on standard interfaces. WALKair is therefore ideal as a feeder system for base stations in mobile and/or RLL networks. It is also well suited for connecting other access network equipment like FastLink in metropolitan and suburban areas. And because it is a point-to-multipoint system, WALKair ensures extremely economical connections between base stations and mobile switches on the basis of complete or fractional E1 interfaces.

Multiple-service access WALKair supports a wide range of services including leased lines, frame relay and IP for heavy data transfer and high-speed Internet connectivity, ISDNBA* for voice and data applications (e.g. Internet access), ISDN-PRA for deploying PABXs and data transfer and ATM for multimedia environments. All corresponding interfaces between WALKair and the service nodes are based on the latest international standards, i.e. G.703 (EI full or fractional), V.35, V.36, X.21, 10 BaseT, ISDN-PRA and ISDN-BA*. Each of these service interfaces is transmitted between the service node and subscriber premises transparently.

* provided through Fastlink

Summary When setting up a new access network or upgrading an existing one, WALKairs sophisticated technology provides the highest capacities, ensures optimum bandwidth flexibility and is quickly and easily installed. When it comes to meeting your customers long-term expectations be they corporate subscribers, small and mediumsized business customers or residential users WALKair is the perfect choice when it comes to access.

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Due to its modular architecture and very efficient bandwidth utilization, WALKair inexpensively supports a diverse range of services. The WALKair systems highly scaleable base station and terminal stations deliver the services right to the customers premises. Furthermore, WALKair is easily upgradable, and thus always ready to meet the growing demand for broadband services and transmission capacities of up to 4 Mbit/s. Base station WALKairs base station communicates with the service nodes and supports the necessary standard interfaces to the terminal stations via the air interface. The base station consists of an outdoor antenna unit, an indoor. IFMUX and a scaleable number of basic units. Depending on the services to be provided, each base station can be configured for up to 16 basic units per sector and has an overall capacity of 32 Mbit/s per sector, where each cell can be divided into four, six, eight and twelve sectors, depending on bandwidth demand. Terminal station The terminal station is installed at the customers premises. It consists of an outdoor antenna unit and an indoor basic unit that provides transparent access to all services. Each terminal station can be configured for up to three different interfaces to provide services at scaleable bandwidths of between 64 kbit/s and 4 Mbit/s. WALKair also supports the simultaneous operation of mixed services. For example, one interface could be used to provide leased line services to a workstation, another to transport frame relay services to a router and a third to transport ISDN-PRA services to a PABX. No other system offers you as much flexibility as WALKair.

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Summary Because WALKair is completely modular in design, it offers you the flexibility you need to keep way ahead of your competitors. It features a minimum start-up configuration and guarantees flexible increases in bandwidth and the quick and easy expansion of base-station equipment to accommodate growing numbers of users. Because it provides for linear growth in keeping with customer demand, WALKair guarantees a low initial investment and a cost structure tailored to your subscribers profiles.

Interfaces: G.703 (full or fractional), V.35, V.36, X.21, 10 BaseT Signaling: V5.2 (BS), V5.1 (TS) Services: Leased lines, frame relay, IP ISDN and ATM (in near future) ,

AccessIntegrator WALKair is completely compatible with Siemens AccessIntegrator, the universal platform for our entire access product family. All the functions required to minimize operational costs such as alarm management, path management, radio management, configuration management, subscriber management and performance management are all accessible via AccessIntegrators userfriendly graphical interface, enabling it to fit seamlessly into all higher-level TMN solutions.

Radio channels WALKair, based on TDMA/Multi Carrier/FDD technology, and due to its sophisticated modulation schemes, has an extraordinarily high spectral efficiency of 2.5 bit/Hz/s. WALKair supplies more capacity per sector, which means fewer base station sites than inferior systems. Here again, WALKair serves to significantly minimize your investment. WALKair supports frequency bands of 3.5, 10.5 GHz, and 26 GHz, and with an operating bandwidth of only 28 MHz per sector, your customers enjoy access to 65 Mbit/s (= 32xE1) traffic channels, which can be increased up to 4 times by implementing frequency reuse schemes. WALKair also includes state-of-the-art features like asymmetrical data transmission and dynamic bandwidth allocation, making it a superior system with fiber-comparable quality.

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Uniform O.N.M.S within access product family Graphical user interface Standard interface for integration into other TMNs Management platform for mixed applications with all access products

* Provided through FastLink

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Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode BS Base Station BU Basic Unit CDMA Code Division Multiple Access DECT Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications DVB Digital Video Broadcasting FDD Frequency Division Duplex FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access HDSL High-bitrate Digital Subscriber Line IF-MUX Intermediate Frequency Multiplexer ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network ISDN-BA ISDN Basic Access ISDN-PRA ISDN Primary Access ISP Internet Service Provider O.N.M.S Optimized Network Management System ONU Optical Network Unit PABX Private Automatic Branch Exchange PMP Point-to-Multipoint POTS Plain Old Telephone Service RLL Radio in the Local Loop SME Small and Medium Enterprise TDMA Time Division Multiple Access TS Terminal Station V5.1 Open interface (non-concentrating) V5.2 Open interface (concentrating) VDSL Very High-speed Digital Subscriber Line

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Capacity of up to 64 Mbit/s per sector Services: leased lines, frame relay, IP ISDN-PRA, ISDN-BA*, POTS* and , ATM (in near future) Interfaces: G.703 (EI full or fractional) V.35, V.36, X.21, 10 BaseT Signaling: V5.2 Serves up to 256 terminal stations per sector Antenna options for four, six, eight and twelve sectors

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Operating frequency: 3.5 GHz, 10.5 GHz, 26 GHz ETSI standard Channel bandwidth grid: 1.75 MHz 10 km range for 3.5 GHz and 10.5 GHz 3 km range for 26 GHz TDMA/Multi Carrier/FDD technology 64 QAM Trellis coding modulation Highest spectral efficiency with 2.5 bit/s/Hz Dynamic and asymmetric bandwidth allocation Bandwidth reservation Frequency reuse

Bandwidth-on-demand from 64 Kbit/s to 4 Mbit/s per TS Supports up to three interfaces per TS like G.703 (EI full or fractional) V.35, V.36, X.21, 10 BaseT Signaling: V5.1 Modular and fault-tolerant architecture