Mobile Infrastructure

Designing and Deploying Infrastructure for Mobile Hyperconnectivity

Wireless, backhaul and fronthaul infrastructure are under tremendous pressure, particularly with the rapid growth in machine-to-machine (M2M) communications and the emergence of video comprising the bulk of mobile data traffic. This poses challenges for OEMs designing equipment and carriers deploying the network infrastructure to deliver current and next-generation wireless voice, data, and multimedia services in wide area networks.

Microsemi provides a broad product portfolio for designing and deploying wireless infrastructure – ranging from macro base stations, small cells,  microwave backhaul and OTN mobile fronthaul – including:

• Ethernet PHYs
• Ethernet Software
• Ethernet Switches
• FPGA & SoC
  
  • Low-range density FPGAs & SoCs
  • Mid-range density FPGAs
• GPS Timing
• IEEE 1588 ICs
• OTN Processors
• PCIe Switches
• Power over Ethernet (PoE) PD Front End
• PoE Systems
• Industrial PoE Systems
• PoE PSE Manager
• PoE PSE Modules
• Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) ICs
• Timing & Synchronization ICs including Clock Management

A long-time supplier to the aerospace, communications, defense/security and industrial industries, Microsemi offers one of the industry’s most comprehensive portfolios of semiconductor technology. Microsemi is well-known for its high-performance analog and mixed signal solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance. Leveraging our technology and expertise, we can help drive innovation in your next-generation network equipment designs that address your carrier customers’ needs.

Contact your local Microsemi sales office today to find the right technologies and products to solve your next-gen wireless network equipment design and deployment challenges.

Designing Cellular Network Infrastructure Equipment

• End-to-End Synchronization: Microsemi solutions enable end-to-end coordination and synchronization of timing for heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets) with IEEE 1588, Synchronous Ethernet and GPS systems. Our VeriTime™ technology delivers the highest accuracy IEEE 1588 timing for IP Edge networks;
• Extreme Energy Efficiency: Microsemi products are designed to minimize power consumption and heat dissipation in network equipment. Microsemi also offers an innovative portfolio of Power over Ethernet (PoE) solutions to efficiently supply power to wireless network equipment, for indoor as well as outdoor applications;
• Security: Microsemi’s ICs and FPGAs are uniquely positioned to secure wireless network equipment design and deployment at multiple levels;
• Compact Form Factor: Low power consumption of Microsemi products with specially designed small form factor packaging enables the most space-efficient of cellular network equipment designs.

Explore Microsemi’s portfolio for cellular infrastructure network equipment designs:

• Ethernet PHYs
• Ethernet Software
• Ethernet Switches
• FPGA & SoC
  
  • Low-range density FPGAs & SoCs
  • Mid-range density FPGAs
• GPS Timing
• IEEE 1588 ICs
• Power over Ethernet (PoE) PD Front End
• PoE Systems
• Industrial PoE Systems
• PoE PSE Manager
• PoE PSE Modules
• Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) ICs

Microsemi is a long-time supplier to the aerospace, communications, defense/security and industrial industries and well-known for its high-reliability, high-performance solutions. Leveraging our technology and expertise, we can help drive innovation in your wireless network equipment designs that address your carrier customers’ needs.

Contact your local Microsemi sales office today to find the right technologies and products to solve your wireless network equipment design challenges.

Deploying Heterogeneous Networks

• Timing & Synchronization: Already proven and deployed in multiple carrier networks globally, Microsemi's portfolio of network synchronization products include industry leading Grandmaster and Edge Master systems. Mobile operators need lower-cost backhaul methods to build out high-speed 4G data services and improve coverage and capacity. The shift to an Ethernet/IP backhaul helps meet this challenge, while also increasing the importance of maintaining precise frequency distribution. As the global leader in timing and synchronization solutions, Microsemi has a full suite of end-to-end solutions to serve the precise timing requirements of wireless operators. Microsemi's industry leading IEEE 1588 PackeTime® precise synchronization and timing solution has been deployed in over 100 networks worldwide.
• Power over Ethernet: Microsemi offers the largest portfolio of standard compliant PoE Midspans that can power in variety of deployment scenarios – for indoor as well as outdoor applications including industrial PoE systems that offer extended temperature range support and higher reliability.
• Communications: Both traditional and next generation communications infrastructure requires precise time to ensure the Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) that customers demand for voice, video and data services. Microsemi's full suite of synchronization, timing and monitoring products maximize the network’s performance and expedite the delivery of next generation digital services while bringing a new level of flexibility and dynamic configuration to the network.
• Optimizing the Transition to LTE: As telecom providers and network carriers begin rolling out 4G/LTE, Microsemi timekeeping ensures the highest quality of service possible. Once a routine network function, timing and synchronization requirements are changing rapidly as mobile network and backhaul technologies evolve. Carriers successfully solved the problem of distributing frequency synchronization through asynchronous Ethernet backhaul networks using IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTP) and/or Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE). Looking forward, LTE-Time Division Duplex and LTE-Advanced impose new, very stringent time and phase synchronization requirements. With the advent of small cells, several additional backhaul technologies are in the mix. Together, stringent timing for phase and new backhaul technologies for small cells have pushed cell site synchronization issues to the forefront.

• Timing & Synchronization Systems
• Power over Ethernet (PoE) Systems

Contact your local Microsemi sales office today to find the right technologies and products to solve your next-gen wireless network equipment deployment challenges.

Related White Paper Resources

•  Capitalizing on Synchronization: Reducing the Effects of Churn in Wireless Networks
  
•  What Time is It? - The Importance of Time in the Network
  
•  Options for Mitigating Potential GPS Vulnerabilities
• PoE and PoH for Carrier Applications
• Timing over MACsec
•  Timing & Sync for LTE-TDD, LTE-A Mobile Networks

Application Notes

•  Timing and Synchronization in WiMAX Networks
•  Five Essential Elements of Carrier Class NTP
•  Timing and Synchronization in Next-Generation Wireless Networks
•  IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol – Frequency Synchronization Over Packet Networks