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PacketWave System Overview
This chapter provides a description of the PacketWave Broadband Multiservice Wireless
Access System, including system architecture, functionality, features, benefits, and hard-
ware and software components.
Conceptual Overview of the PacketWave System
Aperto Networks’ PacketWave System is a next-generation fixed broadband wireless
access solution that dramatically increases capacity and coverage while reducing deploy-
ment cost and time to market. It is a cellular system consisting of the service provider’s
central cell site (base station) and individual service subscribers. The subscribers commu-
nicate via wireless channels to the base station for connection to the Internet and/or other
IP-based services and applications, as shown in Figure 2-1.
The PacketWave System includes the following elements:
• PacketWave 1000 Base Station Unit, a rack-mounting system providing interfaces
to cell site radios, the backhaul channel, and management systems.
• Base station radios and antennas, which mount on a tower or roof for wireless com-
munication with subscribers. Each radio and antenna combination covers a 60° or
90° sector, so a 360° cell requires six or four radios respectively.
• Subscriber radio/antenna units, which provide the wireless access interface at the
subscriber sites.
• PacketWave 100 Series Subscriber Indoor Units, which serve as the interfaces
between the PacketWave System and the subscribers’ computer or Ethernet LAN.
• Management tools and utilities, which run on standard computer platforms.
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