User guide

PTP 800 Series User Guide Link planning
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PTP LINKPlanner
Use the Cambium PTP LINKPlanner to design PTP 800 links. This is a link planning and
optimization tool designed for use with all PTP products. PTP LINKPlanner is free and
available from the support web page (see Contacting Cambium Networks on page 2). The
advantages of PTP LINKPlanner are as follows:
• It is supported on Windows and Macintosh Platforms.
• It is very easy to use without specialist radio planning knowledge.
• It is powerful, implementing the latest ITU recommendations for predicting the
performance of a radio link.
• It expresses the performance in terms of data link capacity.
• It is integrated with Google Earth™ to facilitate site entry and path visualization.
• It provides bill of materials data for ease of purchasing.
• It can provide path data by an automated email service.
• It can model all Cambium PTP products.
• It can plan multiple links in the same session.
• It can generate an export file for Cambium's FCC Coordination service.
The PTP LINKPlanner provides path profile information for individual links as shown in
Figure 39.
Figure 39 LINKPlanner profile view