AirPair Wireless Ethernet
Need a flexible bandwidth radio platform than can scale rapidly to meet the growing demands on your network? AirPair meets the critical needs demanded by carrier class customers delivering a wireless GigE/100bT connection of up to 500 Mbps full duplex over licensed or unlicensed frequency allocation in an indoor or all-outdoor environment. AirPair can scale from 10 to 500 Mbps in 10 Mbps increments via a simple software configuration.
Product Features:
- 11-38 GHz Frequency Support
- 500 Mbps full duplex capacity
- Indoor/Outdoor split
- 19" 1U-high rack mountable option
- Adaptive Modulation
- 100ms Ring/Mesh Switching
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Products - Comparison Chart
Products to build your Wireless Metro Ethernet Networks
| Product |
Speed |
Peak Rate |
Applications |
| Horizon Compact |
Wire-speed 800 Mbps full duplex throughout (software scaleable to 800 Mbps) |
Peak Rate of 1000 Mbps |
WiMax BackHaul
School District Backbone
Last Mile Access
Fiber Extension
WISP Backbone
Campus Extension |
| AirPair 50 |
Wire-speed 50 Mbps full duplex performance (software scaleable to 200 Mbps & in-service scaleable to 500 Mbps) |
Peak Rate of 1000 Mbps |
WiMax BackHaul
School District Backbone
Last Mile Access
Fiber Extension
WISP Backbone
Campus Extension |
| AirPair 100 |
Wire-speed 100 Mbps full duplex performance (software scaleable to 200 Mbps & in-service scaleable to 500 Mbps) |
Peak Rate of 1000 Mbps |
WiMax BackHaul
School District Backbone
Last Mile Access
Fiber Extension
WISP Backbone
Campus Extension |
| AirPair 170/200 |
Wire-speed 200-250 Mbps full duplex performance (in-service scaleable to 500 Mbps) |
Peak Rate of 1000 Mbps |
Municipal Backbone
WiMax BackHaul
School District Backbone
Fiber Extension
WISP Backbone
Campus Extension |
| AirPairFlex |
Software Scalable Bandwidth control from 10-500 Mbps (10 Mbps increments) |
Peak Rate of 1000 Mbps |
WiMax BackHaul
Last Mile Access
Fiber Extension
WISP Backbone
Campus Extension |
Products - Mesh Networking
Increase your Network Availability
DragonWave’s Ring/Mesh configuration enables carrier grade performance, while achieving the lowest network cost. DragonWave Ring/Mesh provides 99.999% availability by providing redundant link diversity from each location. The Ring/Mesh N+1 architecture require only one more link than there are nodes, thus minimizing network costs. This is significantly lower than a 1+1 architecture, where at least two or more links are needed per node, depending on the diversity required.
Other benefits of the AirPair Ring/Mesh configuration include:
- Shortened Radio Links – requiring reduced antenna size and repeater requirements;
- Angle Diversity - providing 5 to10x per link availability improvements;
- Option for 3rd diverse links from any node; and
- Option for 2nd hub node to provide nodal redundancy.
Ring/Mesh is deployed by using DragonWave links, in tandem with an approved Ethernet switch, and a DragonWave multi-beam antenna assembly. The Ethernet switch provides protection switching in less than 50 ms.
The Mesh/Ring can be deployed with any of the following licensing options:
- Area License (i.e. 24 GHz DEMS, 28 GHz LMDS, 26 GHz LMDS);
- Link-by-Link licensing (i.e. 11, 13, 15, 18, 23, 26 GHz); and
- 24 GHz Unlicensed.
Products - Licensed / Unlicensed
DragonWave wireless Ethernet systems are designed for use over a variety of international licensed or unlicensed frequency allocations. Frequencies currently supported include:
- Licensed: 11, 13, 15, 18, 23, 24 DEMS, 26, 28, 38 GHz; and
- Unlicensed: 24 GHz UL.
DragonWave solutions deployed at 24GHz UL are the only “near interference free” frequency without any licensing costs. The 24GHz band is available only for point-to-point microwave and medical applications. This band is free of the device clutter other unlicensed bands have from cordless phones, garage openers, multi-point systems, wireless LANs and other consumer devices. The product was designed to overcome the uncertainty of service with the congested 2.4 GHz ISM and 5.8 GHz U-NII bands, while offering the benefits of license exempt rapid deployment. As a result of these limitations and features, a 24GHz UI solution is highly attractive for short haul applications.
Regardless of the frequency variant selected, DragonWave solutions can be configured and installed to match any customer requirement providing a highly reliable platform enabling 99.999% service availability.
Products - High Power
Extend Your Reach
DragonWave’s High Power option for Horizon Compact and AirPair provides industry leading reach capabilities extending wireless distances up to 50 Km, while enabling high capacity native Ethernet transport. High Power enables the highest system gain for high capacity licensed native Ethernet bandwidth solutions on the market and provides in-service Ethernet and TDM upgradeability from 10 Mbps to 500 Mbps committed full duplex data rates.
The High Power option is available on Horizon Compact and all AirPair variants providing reach extensions to an industry leading Ethernet platform. High Power allows for up to 30 percent increased reach over the existing platform while maintaining the native Gigabit Ethernet interface, and unmatched wireless bandwidths. Additionally, High Power will be deployed to improve link availability or enable reduced antenna sizes in real estate sensitive metro markets.
Modulation Shifting – Further Reach Extension
DragonWave provides enhanced reach through modulation shifting. Modulation shifting on both the Horizon Compact and AirPair platforms will reduce the operating modulation during a fade event. This will provide improved link budget, at a reduced capacity (50 Mbps). Modulation shifting will enable longer links to be engineered, with a high availability guarantee of service.