Employees and customers of enterprises, educational institutions and healthcare organizations depend on those organizations for the voice, video and data services that make their work possible.  Activities such as data center access, collaborative research, high resolution imaging and distance learning all depend on the availability of reliable broadband network connectivity that can support a range of data-intensive and latency-sensitive service and application types.

For businesses and institutions with geographically distributed campuses, the task of delivering these services and applications can be complex. The network traffic growth, security concerns and increasing operating costs IT organizations must contend with are amplified by the need to address those challenges while delivering service across campuses that may include literally hundreds of buildings.

While WLAN extension plays some role in this distribution scheme, such organizations also require high-speed, high availability backbones and infrastructure that simply can’t be delivered via the traditional leased line approach, as their high recurring costs and poor scalability make them unsuitable for data rates beyond about 20 Mbps.

And although fiber connections can easily deliver any throughput requirement, the cost of establishing them can be prohibitive — if such a connection is even available.  When a fiber connection is made, it is to a single campus structure and from that point service must be distributed more widely using other means.

Microwave radio systems from Exalt are ideal for interconnecting campus buildings, and include a rich feature set that makes them ideal candidates for campus connectivity applications:

• All Exalt radios support 99.999% guaranteed user throughput, ensuring that microwave connections will never be a weak link in the network;
• All Exalt radios support both native Ethernet for LAN interconnectivity, as well as native T1/E1 for tandem PBX trunk lines providing flexibility and cost advantages for extending data and voice applications;
• Systems with aggregate capacity ranging from 27 to 440 Mbps provide numerous alternatives for meeting site-specific and application-specific throughput requirements;
• A rich set of Ethernet features such as VLAN and QoS, enabling easy integration into existing data networking architectures;
• Exalt’s CarrierTDD technology enables 2.4 and 5 GHz radios to deliver the low, constant latency needed for  video transmission and TDM voice;
• An asymmetric throughput capability of up to 80:20 maximizes bandwidth efficiency for highly unidirectional applications such as data backup;
• ExaltSync™ technology allows collocation of multiple 2.4 and 5 GHz radios at the same site using the same channel, minimizing location constraints and simplifying system design; and
• AES encryption secures sensitive traffic with the highest encryption capability available, minimizing the likelihood of data breaches.