Microwave backhaul partners are industry-leading vendors that provide high capacity wireless transmission for communication networks to deliver voice, video and data services throughout the network. Microwave radios ensure precise timing and frequency is maintained throughout the network.
Microwave Backhaul Partners
Overview
Strategic Members
Interoperability Members
Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent and Microsemi have closely collaborated to perform detailed interoperability testing with the scope of validating the transport of 1588 frames over microwave networks leveraging Microsemi's carrier-class TimeProvider® 5000 1588 Grandmaster and TimeProvider® 500 IEEE1588 Translator.
Tests were intended to validate the tunneling transport of 1588v2 frames across a microwave network as guaranteed traffic for frequency recovery. This way 1588v2 performance is guaranteed and respects the typical synchronization mask of 16 ppb. In all cases the recovered clock has a Fractional Frequency Offset in the range of ±2ppb. This value meets the frequency accuracy of 16ppb required by mobile access applications for frequency synchronization purposes.
Tunneling is a feature of the Alcatel-Lucent 9500 Microwave Packet Radio (MPR), the first packet microware platform launched on the market. The tunneling is based on the established and patented fragmentation and interleaving techniques used by 9500 MPR over the microwave links. These mechanisms provide a deterministic delay and, most important for the handling of 1588v2 packets, packet delay variation even in heavy congestion conditions. This is extremely important with 1588v2 slaves that need to have consistent network delay of 1588v2 frames to derive their synchronization.
- Learn more about Alcatel-Lucent 9500 Microwave Packet Radio
- Read the Whitepaper - Synchronization In Microwave Networks
Nokia Solutions Networks
Nokia Solutions Networks has successfully integrated Microsemi’s TimeProvider® 5000 and TimeProvider500 products into its Mobile Backhaul solution.
Microsemi’s TimeProvider has been integrated into Nokia Solutions Networks NetAct network management system to ensure end-to-end management for the entire mobile backhauling network, including partner products. Nokia Solutions Networks is the leading vendor of IP-based backhauling solutions and delivers full end-to-end Mobile Backhauling networks covering also multiple vendors' base stations.In early 2011, Nokia Solutions Networks had already connected 40.000 base stations at more than 50 mobile service providers to their IP-based mobile backhauling solution and is by far the largest integrator for Microsemi’s TimeProvider portfolio.
- Read Press Release: Microsemi and NSN’s Joint PTP 1588-2008 deployment in 50 networks globally
- Read Press Release: Microsemi Deploys IEEE 1588 in Over 100 Networks Worldwide
- Read Press Release: Microsemi Deploys PackeTime® Systems Enabling IEEE 1588v2 Precision Time Protocol in More Than 150 Networks Globally
- For more on Nokia Solutions Networks leadership in mobile backhaul technology, see “Nokia Solutions Networks Migrates 100th Customer to IP Transport”
- Learn more about efficient mobile backhaul for the new mobile world
Aviat Networks
Aviat Networks and Microsemi have collaborated closely to perform interoperability tests that validate the deployment scenarios leveraging 1588v2 network synchronization products by Microsemi over microwave networks powered by Aviat Networks' Eclipse Packet Node product line.
- Learn more about Aviat's IP Mobile Backhaul Solutions
- Learn more about Deploying 1588v2 Network Synchronization Over Microwave
- Read application note on Deploying IEEE 1588v2 Synchronization Over Packet Microwave Networks
Ceragon Networks
Ceragon Networks and Microsemi have successfully conducted G.8261-based interoperability tests that validate deployment scenarios leveraging Microsemi's TimeProvider® 5000 IEEE 1588 GrandMaster. The tests successfully demonstrated IEEE 1588 over microwave backhaul networks using Sync Over Packet Optimized Transport with the Ceragon FibeAir wireless platforms.
- Learn more about Best Practices For Implementing IEEE-1588 In Wireless Backhaul
- Learn more about Wireless Backhaul Synchronization
- Learn more about Next-Generation Mobile Backhaul Requirements as Outlined by the NGMN Alliance
- Learn more about LTE Ready Mobile Backhaul – Best practices & Dilemmas
DragonWave
DragonWave and Microsemi have performed extensive IEEE 1588-2008 interoperability testing based on the test cases described in the G.8261 standard. The testing validated the ability of the DragonWave Fusion A20 equipment to recover the clock, well within the masks required for mobile backhaul defined by G.8261, when acting as a 1588v2 slave with the Microsemi TimeProvider® 5000 Grandmaster.
- Learn more about Dragonwave Microwave Solutions
- Learn more about LTE Backhaul
- Find case studies from DragonWave
