Looking at some of the top wireless backhaul stories recently, TMC reported that Meru Networks (News - Alert), a company specializing in wireless network solutions, is redefining the wireless edge with its latest announcement on the availability of a new, rugged outdoor Wi-Fi access point, OAP433e.
Designed to deliver uncompromising wireless in outdoor environments, the new Meru OAP433e is noted to be the first three-radio, three-stream 802.11n outdoor access point in the industry with 1.35 Gbps of data rate capacity. It enables virtualized Wi-Fi to the thousands of devices being used across education and corporate campuses, hotels, shopping malls and stadiums.
“Meru is expanding the boundaries of the wireless enterprise by bringing high-capacity, high performance and highly-reliable WLAN infrastructure to thousands of users who are on the go, both indoors and out,” Kamal Anand (News - Alert), vice president of Product Management for Meru, said.
Also, TMC had the news that one of the top semiconductor companies, Cavium, announced the launch of OCTEON III MIPS64, a processor family with up to 48 cores that will let companies take advantage of a whopping 100 Gbps of internal application communication bandwidth per chip.
Each of the 2.5 GHz OCTEON III processors can't fit in the definition of your average CPU, not just because of its immense multitasking muscle, but also because it squeezes every bit of juice out of its clock to provide 120 GHz of 64-bit instruction processing in each of its chips. That gives it a benchmark of four times the amount of processing power its older brother, the OCTEON II, offered.
Not only does it squeeze from the clock, but also uses each and every watt of power wisely, delivering all the “bang,” with a minimal power consumption footprint.
If that wasn't impressive enough, consider the fact that OCTEON III is a system on chip (SoC), which integrates every single aspect of a computer within one single chip. The SoC will also integrate a search processing algorithm with the best DPI acceleration possible, making you take advantage of every tick of the processor's clock without wasting resources unnecessarily.
And TMC noted that vitroconnect, an FTTx service provider in Germany, recently announced that it will use the Tellabs (News 
- Alert) 7100 Optical Transport System to build its backbone network.
There is a growing demand for high-bandwidth services in Germany, which has placed a lot of pressure on networks for the delivery of unique services based on customer requirements. By incorporating the optical solution from Tellabs, vitroconnect will effectively enhance both reliability and flexibility within its network.
In a release, Michael Lakenbrink, head of Sales of vitroconnect said, “We need to be able to fully trust our backbone network. Tellabs' solution provides not only reliability, but it can also meet the unpredictable bandwidth needs of our customers. In addition, we can cut capital and operating expenses by seamlessly adding new services and locations in a matter of hours, not weeks.”
David Sims is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of David’s articles, please visit his columnist page. He also blogs for TMCnet here.Edited by
Jennifer Russell
