Aperto PacketWave 1000 Series User Manual

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Chapter 2. PacketWave System Overview
Cell Size, Capacity, and Scalability
Aperto’s advanced wireless technologies support a wide range of cell requirements, and
make the PacketWave System an exceptionally scalable solution. PacketWave cell specifi-
cations include the following:
• Cell radius depends on the frequency band, line-of-sight, and local conditions.
Consult Aperto Networks Customer Service for more details.
• Each Base Station Unit can support up to 250 subscribers per sector, with a maxi-
mum of six sectors.
• A cell can employ multiple Base Station Units. Thus, a single cell can serve thou-
sands of subscribers.
• The bandwidth capacity for a Base Station Unit is 120 Mbps, based on a maximum
raw bit rate of 20 Mbps per sector.
• Subscriber data rates can be individually configured from 384 Kbps to 10 Mbps.
• The ratio of downstream to upstream traffic can be adjusted between 75% down-
stream/25% upstream and 75% upstream/25% downstream.
The PacketWave System ensures that a wireless network can grow to thousands of sub-
scribers in urban or suburban areas through high frequency reuse and dense multicell
deployment. Combining high frequency reuse with advanced interference management
and mitigation techniques, the PacketWave System conserves valuable spectrum by cov-
ering extensive geographical areas with a minimum number of channels.
As the number of subscribers and the bandwidth needs in a cell increase, new sectors can
be added, and multiple PacketWave 1000 Base Station Units can be stacked to provide
additional bandwidth using multiple channels per sector. To extend service offerings geo-
graphically, a service provider simply deploys additional cells.
Multiple Frequency Bands
The PacketWave System can be deployed in the standard frequency bands used variously
throughout the world for licensed or unlicensed wireless broadband networking. The Pack-
etWave 1000 Base Station Unit can support PacketWave radios and antennas operating in
2.5 GHz MMDS, 3.5 GHz FWA, 5.3 GHz U-NII, and 5.8 GHz U-NII bands. Similarly, any Pack-
etWave 100 Series Subscriber Indoor Unit (bridge/router) can support the same range of
frequency bands.
IP-Based System
The PacketWave System leads the industry in the implementation of advanced IP features
and services. Packet filtering, DHCP snooping, and ARP snooping conserve bandwidth for
subscriber traffic. Support for IP RIP routing, multiple subnets per sector, Variable-Length
Subnet Mask (VLSM), and Classless Internet Domain Routing (CIDR) ensure complete con-
trol of IP address management and network configuration. PacketWave Series 100
Subscriber Indoor Units support bridging, IP routing, and NAT for flexible deployment.

Aperto PacketWave 1000 Series Specifications

General

Brand	Aperto
Model	PacketWave 1000 Series
Category	Network Router
Language	English