AVIAT STR 4500 XT

The Latest in 5G Split-Mount Trunking

MAY 2020

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For more than 60 years,
Long Haul Trunking
Microwave has formed the
backbone of networks
around the world.

Millions of kilometers have

been deployed, many of
which are still in operation
today.

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Microwave is an essential
solution for long and difficult
mountainous or over-water
paths, where deploying fiber
would be prohibitively expensive

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Space Diversity
is essential for longer, high
availability links, and is
required for more than
70% of trunking
applications

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But,
many Operators
can no longer
afford high site
infrastructure costs:
• Shelters
• Air-Conditioning
• Generators
• High fuel
consumption

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And, All-Indoor radios
need waveguide and
dehydrators, which are
expensive, difficult and
costly to install, and
require regular
maintenance, pushing
operational costs higher

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By removing waveguide-
associated losses,
smaller antennas can
often be used.
• Lower cost
• Easier installation
• Lower tower rental fees
• Reduced tower loading

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 All-indoor Trunking
Antenna
• Up to 2.2m equipment
rack
Elliptical
• Requires walk-in shelter Waveguide
• Capacity limited
• High Power Consumption
• High system losses for Indoor
longer waveguide runs 2m
Rack
• Requires air-conditioned
environment
Air-Conditioned Shelter

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‘TRADITIONAL’ ALL-INDOOR N+1 TRUNKING RADIOS
• Originally designed in the 1990’s for Nx STM1 transport
• Large, expensive, not designed for Ethernet transport
• Modulations up to 128QAM and 28 to 40MHz channels

Harris Aviat/Fujitsu Nokia/ALU Ericsson NEC Nera

Megastar WTM 6000/FRX-3 9600 LSY Marconi LH 5000s NL 290

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‘NEW’ ALL-INDOOR TRUNKING RADIOS
• More compact, lower cost, reduced power consumption.
• Large indoor units (2 to 5RU), Carrier Aggregation, 10 GE interface
• High power RF, with TRR and support for high modulations and channels to 56 or 80 MHz

NEC Ericsson Nokia Ceragon Huawei

7000 IP MINI-LINK LH 9500 MPR LH IP-20 LH RTN 980L

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 New Trunking

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 Combining the best of two proven technologies
All-indoor Split-Mount/All-Outdoor

NEW
TRUNKING
• Short to long haul links
• Very long-distance links • Wide channels
• High Availability, N+1 • Up to 1 Gbit/s per
• Narrower channels 28/40/56 MHz
channel
• Up to 250 Mbit/s per channel • Outdoor RF Units
• ETSI rack mounted • Compact Indoor Unit
• Air-Conditioning • Minimal site support
• Waveguide to antenna
infrastructure

Distance, Reliability Capacity, Low TCO

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SPLIT-MOUNT MAJORITY OF LONG HAUL MARKET

$700,000

$600,000

$222,719 $236,065
$500,000 $255,618 $214,495
$283,601 $216,617 Decreasing
$400,000
$249,184
all-indoor
market share
($000)

$300,000
from 46% in
$376,032 $360,326 $355,112
$200,000
$328,423
$358,484 $345,321 2017 to 38%
$291,920
$100,000 in 2020
$-
2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

Full Outdoor - LH Split Mount - LH All Indoor - LH

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What features to look for
• Compact outdoor architecture
• Less equipment, less bulk and weight on the
tower

• Integrated Space Diversity support

• Avoid double the hardware just to add SD

• Support for high-QAM and wide channels

• Enabling high link capacities

• High System Gain

• Smaller antennas, lower tower costs

• Split-mount or all-outdoor design

• Flexible deployment options

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AVIAT STR 4500
• THIRD-GENERATION SPLIT-MOUNT
OR ALL-OUTDOOR TRUNKING

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 STR 600 STR 4500T STR 4500XT
1st Generation (2013) 2nd Generation (2017) 3rd Generation (2019)

Hug
e TC
O Re
duct
ion

Single Transceiver ODU Single Transceiver RFU Dual Transceiver RFU

IF cable interface Ethernet cable interface Ethernet cable interface
No integrated SD Integrated SD support Integrated SD support
1.8 Gbps max capacity 5 Gbps max capacity 10 Gbps max capacity
4x OBUs for 8ch+SD 2x OBUs for 8ch+SD 1x OBU for 8ch+SD

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 Aviat new Trunking
Antenna
Waveguide
OBU • Split-Mount or All-outdoor
WTM
• Dual-Channel Outdoor Radio
Units

• Integrated Space Diversity

2x 10GE fiber
• Compact Outdoor Branching
Unit

• Up to 2048QAM

• Wide channels to 112 MHz

Switch / Router
(Aviat CTR or Third Party)

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 WTM 4000
Multi-Channel, Multi-Band Architecture

5 to 80 GHz in a Ultra-high capacity

common platform support in a single unit
Unique modular dual- Integrated 50 Gbps
transceiver design switch, CE + IP/MPLS
Flexible frequency Four user interfaces,
band combinations including 2x 10GE
Unique Single-Box Direct-Mount Single-
Multi-Band solution or Multi-Band antenna

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 THE HIGHEST CAPACITY, SINGLE PLATFORM FOR 5G TRANSPORT

IP
Aviat
MPLS SDN

WTM 4880 WTM 4800 WTM 4800 WTM 4100 WTM 4200 WTM 4500 STR 4500 CTR 8740

Transport
E-Band E-Band Multi-Band 5 to 42 GHz 5 to 42 GHz 5 to 11 GHz 5 to 11 GHz
Router

20 Gbps 10 Gbps 10 Gbps 2.5 Gbps 5 Gbps 2.5 Gbps 10 Gbps 68 Gbps

Rural
Urban Urban Sub-Urban Sub-Urban Sub-Urban Long-Haul Transport &
Space
Short Haul Short Haul Short Haul Access Access Trunking Aggregation
Diversity

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STR 4500 key features
• Four dual-channel RFUs (WTM 4500XT)
• Integrated Space Diversity - supported with half the
amount of equipment (no N+N)
• Compact Outdoor Branching Unit (OBU)
• Up to 10 Gbit/s (8+0, 2KQAM/112 MHz)
• Less equipment, less tower space, lower tower loading
• High system gain for smaller antennas/longer paths
• Lower power consumption
• Simpler - fewer cables and flex waveguides

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WTM 4500XT
• Supports Dual-Channel with Space
Diversity (DC-SD) operation, with
just two transceivers
• No diplexers – all filtering and
branching in separate OBU
• External OBU interface, with six RF
interfaces:
• One Tx, Rx, Diversity Rx connection,
per channel
• Direct mount to OBU
• Supports dual channel 2+0, with or
without space diversity
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RF performance vs. all-indoor
All-Indoor System Aviat STR 4500
7 GHz 11 GHz 7 GHz 11 GHz
1024QAM/30MHz 1024QAM/40MHz 1024QAM/30MHz 1024QAM/40MHz

Tx Power1 33 dBm 30 dBm2 29 dBm 28.5 dBm

System Gain1 97.5 dB 93 dB2 94.5 dB 92 dB

Waveguide Loss 9 dB3 18 dB3 1 dB 1 dB
(150m total)

Net System Gain 88.5 dB 75 dB 93.5 dB 91 dB

1. Tx Power and System Gain figures do not include filter and branching losses
2. 11 GHz Tx Power for MPT-HLC High Power option
3. Waveguide loss for mid-band, ie: 7.5 (EW77) and 11 GHz (EW127)

STR 4500 up to 16 dB more Net System Gain = 2 Antenna Sizes

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OUTDOOR BRANCHING UNIT (WBX)

• Highly Integrated and compact

design
• Low-loss Band Pass Filters
(BPF), circulators and Band
Elimination Filters (BEF) within
a single housing, supporting
configurations from 4+0 to
2x(4+0) with Space Diversity
• Four antenna ports for
waveguide connections to
antenna(s)

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WEIGHT AND TOWER LOADING

WEIGHT SIZE WIND LOADING

(Largest face) (200 KPH)

STR 4500 75 kg 0.43 m2 <50 kg

(4x WTM 4500XT + OBU)

1.8m Antenna 130 kg 3 m2 680 kg

2.4m Antenna 200 kg 5.1 m2 1,140 kg

3.0m Antenna 250 kg 7.8 m2 1,820 kg

4.6m Antenna 800 kg 17.2 m2 4,000 kg

* Antenna specs are for HP/UHP Shielded antennas with planar radome

STR 4500 is <10% of the tower loading of a 2.4m antenna

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WTM 4500, 8+0 DUAL POLARITY WITH SD

Main H Main V
TX (H & V)
GE-1 4500XT 4500XT GE-1
GE-2 CH1h,v CH4h,v GE-2 H F1 F2 F3 F4
TR OBU
XE-1 XE-1 V
XE-2 XE-2

MAIN
CH 1 RX (H & V)
CH 2
GE-1 4500XT 4500XT GE-1
GE-2 CH 3 F1 F2 F3 F4
CH2h,v CH3h,v GE-2
XE-1 CH 4 XE-1
XE-2 XE-2
Div V Div H

DIVERSITY
H
Div RX (H & V)
V
F1 F2 F3 F4
CTR 8740 Traffic + Management + PTP

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 Aviat STR 4500 vs. Huawei RTN 980L

2x BU
No Dual
1x OBU
Channel
Support

4x Solution
WTM 4500XT
for 8x XMC-LH

8+0/SD
CTR 8740 (1RU)

RTN 980L (5RU)

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 Aviat STR 4500 vs. Nokia Wavence
No
Integrated
1x OBU Space
Diversity

4x Solution 8x
UBT-T
WTM 4500XT
for
8+0/SD
4x OCM
CTR 8740 (1RU)

MSS-8 (2RU)

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Split-mount trunking benefits
Compared to all-indoor
• Up to 65% lower TCO
• More than 300% more capacity
• Up to 40% less power consumption
• Minimal indoor footprint
• No shelter or air-conditioning needed
• Higher System Gain for reduced tower loading
• Easier to ship, faster to deploy and commission
• No waveguide or dehydrators needed

Taking advantage of the latest in highly

integrated, all-outdoor radio technologies
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Summary
STR 4500 is the only split-
mount trunking solution to
supports integrated Dual
Channel Space Diversity,
and up to 10 Gbit/s
capacity in a single
Outdoor Branching solution

Ultra-High Capacity,
Lowest TCO Trunking

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Aviat Networks does not guarantee or commit to a legal obligation to deliver the features and/or functionality described in this
document, and reserves the right to make changes to the specifications and product releases at any time without prior notice.

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