Wireless Network Integration
Wireless network integration is the adaptation or addition to a new or existing data/voice/video infrastructure. As technology and bandwidth requirements change, so does the wireless technology and equipment available to support those changes. AS CIO’s professionally trained technicians keep a close watch on wireless industry standards and anticipated technological advances. ASCIO supports full turnkey applications, designed with the customer’s needs and budget requirements in mind. Wireless network architecture is site specific and customer oriented in detail. Rarely are two true wireless networks the same (excluding Wi-Fi hotspots). Wireless networks are as unique as the companies that are looking to deploy them. Areas of separation include numbers of users, required bandwidth, levels of security, topography, applications being supported (VoIP, video over IP etc.), remote access, VLAN’s, and budget allocations for deployment. Formulating those variables, ASCIO starts with a consultation to determine the current and long-term needs of the customer. Once that criterion is established a physical site survey with full radio frequency analysis is performed. Following the site survey the design phase begins. The design is determined by the variables outlined in the consultation and integrates the real data accumulated from the site survey. Upon completion of the design, options are presented to the customer outlining the specific advantages of a wireless network infrastructure. We believe that our customers should make an educated decision giving them the confidence to launch a cost effective, future proof ,secure wireless infrastructure.
Point-to-Point Wireless Bridge
Point-to-Point (PTP) wireless (RF) technologies create a data link between two fixed locations. PTP wireless data networks provide a cost effective solution opposed to hard line. These solutions can accommodate bandwidth requirements from 1MB to 1,000Mbps.
The “unlicensed” RF spectrum has regulatory requirements placed on the RF equipment. These requirements deal with limiting the RF transmission or signal strength. To complicate the deployment, these restrictions are installed on the RF equipment itself (TX power). However, PTP regulatory limits are typically higher than those for PMP products.
Wireless PTP data links typically do not require intricate network configuration services. As a result, PTP devices operate as simple (Ethernet) bridges and leave services such as routing and traffic policing to the networks they are connecting. In a sense, a PTP wireless link becomes a “phantom cable”, joining two data network devices. Without wireless technology, distances over 350 feet typically must be served by wide area network technologies such as T-1/E1 and fiber. However, wireless data networking allows for local area network (LAN) technologies such as 10/100BaseT to be used. These technologies are less expensive, more readily available and require less lead-time for deployment.
Point to Multi-Point Wide Area Networks
Point-to-Multipoint (PMP) RF data networking refers to the use of wireless (RF) technologies to create multiple data links. These links originate at a single fixed location (the point of presence or POP) and fan out to various other locations. PMP applications can be designed to overcome multiple variables such as distance and data throughput.
PMP products differ from wireless access points in that the technologies for these solutions provide what is commonly referred to as fixed wireless broadband. Wireless access points operate as what is referred to as “hot spot coverage”. Hot-spot coverage is coverage measured in feet/meters. In contrast PMP non hot-spot technologies provide coverage over measured miles/kilometers.
PMP systems have two features that PTP systems do not. Controlling the RF in space when multiple radios use the same RF channel simultaneously, and the methods required for dynamic data rate control.
RF space control is performed through Time Division Multiple Access or TDMA technologies. TDMA technologies are determined by standard and/or are proprietary. Proprietary technologies are able to offer additional benefits but standards offer the possible interoperability between different manufacturers’ equipment.
Licensed Wireless Links
In the United States the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) regulates the use of the RF spectrum. Spectrum licenses can be expensive, however the purpose is to provide for protection from interference from others. Licensed spectrums provide for wireless technologies to accommodate mission critical applications with increased quality of service level (QoS), such as 4.9ghz spectrum used for public safety applications including streaming video, incident scene management dispatch operations and vehicular operations.
Unlicensed Wireless Links
The main distinction of unlicensed spectrum is that the RF signal is available for all to use. This is in contrast to the licensed spectrum where only the owner of the license for that spectrum can use it. Uunlicensed radio frequency bands are by nature intended to allow and promote the use of wireless equipment in an unregulated manner. Fixed wireless networks access services in the 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz, known as the National Information Infrastructure band or U-NII, the U being “unlicensed”.
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