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Crossfire: Deploying the Optimal Configuration -- Point to Multipoint vs Consecutive Point vs Mesh. Dan Gulliford Vice President Advance Technology Broadband Wireless World Forum February 19, 2001. Point-to-Point Technology. 155 Mbps being deployed today Limited scalability
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Crossfire: Deploying the Optimal Configuration -- Point to Multipoint vs Consecutive Point vs Mesh Dan Gulliford Vice President Advance Technology Broadband Wireless World Forum February 19, 2001
Point-to-Point Technology • 155 Mbps being deployed today • Limited scalability • Redundancy, but not alternate routing • Line of sight issues Financial Building Network Interconnect Point-Of-Presence (POP)
Point-to-Multipoint Technology POP • Typically 10 to 45 Mbps per building • Capacity declines as subscribers are added • No alternative routing or redundancy • Line of site and frequency reuse issues • Best suited to low- to medium scale BW needs Financial Building Bank City Hall Trade Center University
Consecutive Point Network - Ring/Mesh Networks • Ideal CPN uses radios designed specifically for ring/mesh deployment • Totally transparent to voice, video, and data applications • Radios work with standard network equipment to provide total CPN solution Bank Gateway POP Financial Building Trade Center University City Hall
POP Consecutive Point Networks Dense deployments POP Create self-healing, route-diverse networks Minimize frequency interference
Consecutive Point Networks • Scaleable & Flexible: Build to customer demand, matching revenue generation with network investment outlay • Reliable & Available: Dual route (path) diverse links to customers • Backhaul to backbone network inherent in architecture (minimizes backhaul issue and cost) • Simpler RF planning: Easier adaptation as network grows in size and density (grow and evolve to mesh) • High spectrum efficiency: One 50 MHz channel pair gives greatest, most flexible, and highest bandwidth density per customer • Dense network deployment because of efficient RF spectrum management of co-channel interference • Uses state-of-the-art standard network equipment--fully future proof --Best choice for medium to high capacity BW needs
Consecutive Point and Mesh Topology • Mesh network advantages: • High survivability • Support heterogeneous and dynamic traffic patterns • Consecutive Point is a minimal form of mesh (n[the # of conections per node] = 2), which provides full redundancy • Consecutive Point can readily be expanded to complex mesh, if needed: • Economic justification of extra links: • Additional capacity? • Additional reliability? --Typically ROI diminishes rapidly as n increases beyond two