RADWIN 5000 vs.

Ubiquiti Rocket M & Rocket M-GPS Series

Competitive Analysis
Nov, 2012
RADWIN at a Glance
 Leading provider of Sub-6GHz broadband wireless solutions

 Deployments in over 140 countries

 Offering Backhaul and access (last mile) solutions

 Market leading sub-6GHz portfolio

 Point to Point - Up to 250Mbps net throughput; up to 16xE1s/T1s+ Ethernet
 Point to Multi-Point – Up to 250Mbps net throughput; Ethernet

 Target Segments: Cellular Operators, Service Providers, Security &

Surveillance and variety of private networks verticals

 Customer base includes leading tier 1 cellular and fixed operators, globally

 Operating from Israel with regional headquarters in North America, Latin

America, EMEA and APAC
RADWIN Offering

Radio Planner

Point-to-Point
End-to-End Wireless Connectivity

Point-to-MultiPoint

Network Management
Mobility

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RADWIN Point-to-MultiPoint Portfolio

 Highest capacity Base Station Base Stations HBS 5200 250 Mbps
HBS 5050 50 Mbps
 Up to 250 Mbps throughput
Subscriber Units HSU 550 50 Mbps
 Up to 50Mbps per SU ! HSU 520 20 Mbps
 Guaranteed SLA HSU 510 10 Mbps

 Highest Bps/Hz HSU 505 5 Mbps

 Long range (40Km)

 Carrier grade PtMP

 Frequency Bands: 2.5GHz, 3.3-3.8GHz and

4.9-6.4GHz
Ubiquiti Point-to-Multi-to-Point Solution

 Ubiquiti PtMP offering:

AP:
» 3.x GHz - Rocket M3, Rocket M3-GPS

» 5.x GHz – Rocket M5, rocket M5-GPS

CPE:
» 3.x and 5.x Nano station

 Main attributes
» 802.11n WiFi technology based solutions

» Include AirMax protocol that supports TDMA structure

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Executive Summary
RADWIN 5000 vs. Ubiquiti Rocket M & Rocket M-GPS Series
 RADWIN 5000 is the only solution among the two that applicable for
corporate/SME market due to the following reasons:
» RADWIN 5000 guarantees SLA (Up link and downlink BW) per user, while Ubiquiti
solutions can’t ensure by any means the user capacity.
» RADWIN 5000 guarantees the performance of any type of service (including Voice &
video ) using enhanced QoS mechanism. Ubiquiti QoS doesn’t guarantee traffic delay
and is based on TOS classifier only, rather than VLAN 802.1p that required in
enterprise communication.
» RADWIN 5000 delivers stable capacity in the following scenarios, where Ubiquiti
solutions can not:
 NLOS (Non Line of Sight) , nLOS and congested spectrum. (these scenarios degrade the
Ubiquiti solution performance dramatically)
 Traffic with short packets (voice and video) – RADWIN BS’s Packet Per Second capability
is by far (10 to 20 times) bigger than that of Ubiquiti APs.
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Executive Summary (Cont.)
RADWIN 5000 vs. Ubiquiti Rocket M & Rocket M-GPS Series
» RADWIN 5000 delivers by far more capacity per tower and per network due to its TDD
synchronization capability.
» RADWIN 5000 delivers constant capacity per base station (regardless the number of
end-points), unlike Ubiquiti capacity which dramatically reduced when the number of
end points is increased.
» RADWIN 5000 enables much grater spectrum efficiency due to the frequency
separation required between Ubiquiti co-located Radios.

 In addition RADWIN 5000 provides the following advantages over Ubiquiti:

» Greater immunity to harsh environment (IP67 enclosure, wider temperature range)
» Fixed and smaller latency
» VLAN mapping, support of QinQ

» Wider frequency band supported both in 5.x and 3.x

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Executive Summary (Cont.)
RADWIN 5000 vs. Ubiquiti Rocket M & Rocket M-GPS Series
 RADWIN 5000 Operational advantages over Ubiquiti:
» Supporting small to large networks, RADWIN 5000 is the only one to
provide:
 Radio planning tool (R-Planner) ensuring coverage and capacity performance
as planned.
 Advance network management that supports 1000x managed elements and
enables Alarm monitoring and performance monitoring on top of
configuration capabilities.

» 24/7 professional service, on site support and help desk, ensuring zero
service down time. No such service is provided by Ubiquiti.

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 Technical Comparison
RADWIN 5000 VS. Rocket M

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 RADWIN 5000 vs. Ubiquiti Rocket M Series
BS (AP) Capacity under varios number of HSUs (CPEs)

100
90
Channel Utilization [%]

80
70
60
50 RADWIN 5000
Ubiquiti Rocket M
40
30
20
10
0
1 5 10 15 20 25 30 32
Number of HSUs/CPEs
RADWIN 5000 advantages:
 RADWIN 5000 channel utilization is not effected by the number of HSUs/CPEs
(contenders)
 RADWIN 5000 ensures efficient utilization of BW resources
Rocket M (with no GPS) capacity is reduced sharply with the number of CPEs

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Capacity performance
RADWIN 5000 vs. Ubiquiti Rocket M Series
Attribute Ubiquiti Rocket M
AP Capacity is subject to
Effective Capacity type of traffic, number of
per BS or AP CPEs and network topology
(see previous slide)
End-User capacity is subject
Service level to the number of users per
agreement (SLA) AP and the type of traffic of
users. No SLA can be
offered
No actual TDD Sync
Co-located BS because of the random
Radio nature of the upstream
synchronization downstream Tx periods.
(TDMA+CSMA)
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Customer’s benefits using
RADWIN 5000
RADWIN
Up to 250 Mbps net
aggregate throughput per
Higher and constant Capacity
BS. regardless the number of end
100Mbps in 3.xGHz
regardless type of traffic point.
and up to 32 CPEs
End-user (minimum)
capacity is guaranteed on
uplink and downlink RADWIN 5000 ensures the SLA
directions and doesn’t per end-user
depend on the radio
performance of number of
users and their performance
Synchronization avoids mutual
interference between Radios.
Therefore enables greater
Intra & Inter site TDD capacity vs. range for each
Synchronization is provided Radio in the network. Without
via GPS;
Radio Sync, adding a Radio to
the network increases the
network capacity only little.
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RADWIN 5000 VS. Rocket M-GPS

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Capacity Performance
RADWIN 5000 Vs. Ubiquiti Rocket M GPS Series
Attribute Ubiquiti Rocket M GPS
End-User capacity is configured
relatively to other users. Capacity
Service level per user is based on Best Effort (see
agreement (SLA) Ubiquiti note 1 ) and is affected by
other users in the sectors (See
Ubiquiti note 2)
Network Spectrum When multi Radios are collocated in
efficiency a tower, a 20MHz separation band
is required between Radios that use
different frequency (see Ubiquiti
note 3)
RADWIN 5000
End-user capacity is
guaranteed on the uplink
and downlink directions
and doesn’t depend on the
radio performance of other
users
Multi Radios in a tower can
use co-channel frequency.
No need separation
Customer’s benefits using
RADWIN
RADWIN 5000 ensures
the SLA per end-user
RADWIN 5000 delivers
more network
capacity per given
spectrum

Note 1: Note 2

Note 3:

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Capacity Performance
RADWIN 5000 Vs. Ubiquiti Rocket M GPS Series

Attribute Ubiquiti Rocket M GPS
Although Ubiquiti offers GPS
Co-located BS Radio for synchronization, it is well
known that due to issues
synchronization with the 802.11n no
synchronization is possible
RADWIN 5000 Customer’s benefits using RADWIN
Synchronization avoids mutual
interference between Radios.
Therefore enables greater
Intra & Inter site TDD capacity vs. range for each Radio
Synchronization is
provided via GPS; in the network. Without Radio
Sync, adding a Radio to the
network increases the network
capacity only little.

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 Technical Comparison
RADWIN 5000 VS. Both Rocket M & Rocket M-GPS

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Service Performance
RADWIN 5000 vs. Ubiquiti Rocket M & Rocket M GPS Series
Attribute Ubiquiti Rocket M-GPS RADWIN 5000 Customer’s benefits using RADWIN
Latency is subject to traffic
load, type of traffic and Low and constant latency, better
Latency number of CPEs. It is 3.5msec @ 2 HSUs; support delay sensitive application,
therefore varied in time and 20msec @ 32 HSUs does not depand on traffic load
can reach 100msec
RADWIN can deliver full capacity of
BS Packet per ~ 20k PPS 380k PPS the air interface also in short packets
second (applicable for Voice or Video
application)
Supported, Packet Prioritization is done per service flow
QoS Partial support via TOS classification to 4 per end user (HSU), Enable
classifier only. queues according to transmission of time/delay sensitive
802.1p and Diffserv applications
Support, mapping of
VLAN / QinQ VLAN Transparent 802.1Q, 8021.P, QinQ. No need expensive 3rd party switch

GbE LAN
None Supported by BS Interoperability with GbE networks
Interface

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Transmission Performance in Adverse Conditions
RADWIN 5000 vs. Ubiquiti Rocket M & Rocket M GPS Series
Attribute Ubiquiti Rocket M RADWIN 5000 Customer’s benefits using RADWIN
RADWIN can work either in
Diversity mode wherever MiMO
NLOS (Non Line Requires Line of Sight mode can not work. This feature Easy, fast and lower cost end
of Sight ) user installation
performance (LOS) installation combined with RADWIN unique air Save BS site CAPEX and OPEX
interface enables operation in nLOS
and full NLOS link for range <1km
RADWIN unique air interface built
Link Performance is to work efficiently in highly High service availability when
Interference congested spectrum . Its one in a working in unlicensed band or
very vulnerable to
mitigation interference kind ARQ enables operation even in when licensed band is
50% packet-error-rate (every second congested.
packet is corrupted )
AP Provides view of Base Station provides view of the
the local level of
Spectrum interference. interference level at the local and RADWIN spectrum analysis
remote sites reduces the down time of the
Analyzer The analysis is aware
Analysis is aware to any network caused by interference.
to on WiFi-like signals
interference signals (WiFi or others)
only.
ODU’s case doesn’t Less mutual interference in
RF isolation avoid energy leakage RADWIN case RF isolation is perfect. RADWIN enables much better
between ODUs between ODUs ( only up link reception and greater
45db Isolation ) capacity.

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Environment
RADWIN 5000 vs. Ubiquiti Rocket M & Rocket M GPS Series
Attribute Ubiquiti Rocket M RADWIN 5000 Customer’s benefits using RADWIN
-30°C to +40°C as
per spec.
Operation -20°C to +40°C as -35°C to +60°C Ability to operate over a wider temperature range
Temperature with no performance degradation
per RADWIN Lab
measurement

5 to 95% IP-67 up to 100% Fully outdoor , weather-proof

Humidity
Condensing non-condensing Long term durability in tough environment
Radio Enclosure Plastic Die-Cast Aluminum Withstand wider operating and storage
strength temperatures. More durable over time.

MTBF Unknown, Plastic >174,000 hours Carrier grade system, Higher availability, Save
case CapEx and OpEx throughout the product life cycle

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Operating Frequency
RADWIN 5000 vs. Ubiquiti Rocket M & Rocket M GPS Series
Attribute Ubiquiti Rocket M RADWIN 5000 Customer’s benefits using RADWIN

Multi Band radio: Flexible RF planning, enable migration to

5.X 5.4-5.8GHz 4.9 –6GHz another band with no extra cost
(the same HW)

3.X 3.4-3.7GHz 3.3- 3.8GHz Wide range of frequency

5.X None 2.5-2.7GHz

6.4Ghz None 5.9-6.4GHz

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Management & Professional Service
RADWIN 5000 vs. Ubiquiti Rocket M & Rocket M GPS Series
Attribute Ubiquiti Rocket M RADWIN 5000 Customer’s benefits using RADWIN
Managing a BS and HSUs using a single
Management application. Management
Management Device Manager only Network management package includes: Network management ,
element manager, Telnet and Web based
application

Management VLAN connectivity

security None between RNMS and the Ensure management security
Base station
Enables end-users to plan a radio link(s) using
Planning Tools None RADWIN R-Planner web Google Earth including integrated analysis
server tool tools, a built-in report generator and
complete product database access
Support Service is
provided by a Forum Carrier class support: 24/7 support, On-site
Support in the Internet by 24/7 support worldwide support and Trainings by RADWIN
Services
other users, no much professional service engineers
technical information

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Thank You!