Installation Manual

CarrierWave Digital Radio MK-MAN-01
2 System Description
2.1 About This Manual
This manual is written for those who are involved in the “hands-on” installation of the CarrierWave
Digital Radio, such as installation technicians, site evaluators, project managers, and network
engineers. It assumes the reader has a basic understanding of how to install hardware, use
Windows based software, and operate test equipment.
2.2 Introduction
The CarrierWave family of digital license-free radios provides high capacity transmission,
flexibility, features, and convenience for wireless digital communications networks. The
CarrierWave digital radios are spectrum and data rate scalable, enabling service providers or
organizations to trade-off system gain with spectral efficiency and channel availability for optimal
network connectivity. CarrierComm’s digital radio family enables service providers and
enterprises to offer a portfolio of secure, scalable wireless applications for data, video, and Voice
over IP (VoIP).
The CarrierWave digital radio family operates in the Industrial, Scientific, and Medical (ISM)
band of 5.725 to 5.850 GHz, which is typically referred generically as 5.8 GHz. The
CarrierWave Digital Radio family supports two types of user data payload connectivity:
• SONET/SDH wireless bridging between two fixed coordinated locations without the delay
and expense of trenching fiber or the added costs of leasing dedicated OC-3 lines.
• 100Base-TX intelligent bridging between two locations without the delay and expense of
installing cable or traditional microwave
- Scalable Ethernet capability of 25 and 50 Mbps is included. These scalable radios
provide LAN connectivity and offer performance trade-offs between operational
bandwidths, data rates, and distance.
For customers such as cellular carriers requiring backhaul and backbone extension as well
as service providers requiring network redundancy, new Points of Presence (POPs), and last
mile access, the CarrierWave-155 radio is a cost effective alternative to leased lines with
carrier-class quality of performance. The CarrierWave-100 radio is a cost effective solution
to meet the growing demand for enterprise Local Area Network (LAN) connectivity between
buildings and campuses as well as service providers requiring reliable products for
infrastructure expansion, extending Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) fiber access, and
network redundancy.