In a recently conducted trial in Mumbai, India, during the 2011 monsoon season, Siklu’s radio has performed flawlessly, the company has announced. Siklu has demonstrated that for last mile backhaul of mobile and business services EtherHaul E-band systems can be effectively used in India.
Siklu offers a very large dynamic range and excelled in the E-band trial thanks to its unique hitless adaptive bandwidth, coding and modulation capabilities (ABCM). Ensuring reliable performance even under very rainy conditions, this exceptional ABCM implementation allows the EtherHaul to cope with high attenuation, the company stated in a press release.
“We are pleased with the performance of the Siklu EtherHaul trial in the Indian weather conditions,” said an executive of the operator in a company press release. “Now we can benefit from the underutilized E-band spectrum and deliver high-capacity at a very low cost as soon as the pricing of the spectrum will be finalized.”
An Indian mobile operator conducted a six-month trial concluding that the Siklu EtherHaul delivers a robust wireless backhaul solution under all weather conditions. Siklu is now poised to deliver its low-cost, high-capacity backhaul to the Indian market, having already established a leading position in the European E-band backhaul market.
A series of EtherHaul links were deployed at various distances and their performance and availability were monitored for an entire monsoon season in Mumbai. While the 2011 season was particularly challenging, the monsoon in that region is usually one of the harshest in India.
Recently, the company
announced that it had ensured itself a top place in the wireless backhaul market. It has established more than 1000 EtherHaul links all over the world and these, company officials say, have been performing stably under all types of weather conditions that range from harsh European winters to rainy Indian monsoons. Siklu is able to deliver scalable, flexible carrier-grade, state-of-the-art, advanced architecture solutions with the industry's lowest total cost of ownership.
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