Technical White Paper

ProviBand – Next Generation

Wireless Backhaul Technology
Ran Soffer

January 2006

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Introduction......................................................................................................................... 3
Access Network Topologies and Evolution........................................................................ 4
Cellular Network Evolution................................................................................................ 5
Wireless Backhaul (Wireless PTP Links)........................................................................... 6
Class of Availability (CoA) ................................................................................................ 7
ProviBand Technology ....................................................................................................... 9
Case Study .......................................................................................................................... 9
Summary ........................................................................................................................... 11
Appendix: Cellular Network Topologies.......................................................................... 12

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Protocols Synchronous TDM traffic Mixed TDM and packet
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SONET/SDH)
Classes of availability Single CoA (voice Multiple CoA (voice, Web
channels) browsing, text massages,
VoD, etc.)
Capacities Low capacity High capacity
Symmetric services Asymmetric services
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downstream than upstream)
Rates Fixed rate Dynamic rate adaptation
Symmetric bandwidth using ACM technique
Asymmetric bandwidth

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