Broadband wireless access equipment vendor Wavtrace Inc. this week plans to introduce its new PTM 2000 product at the Broadband Wireless World Forum in San Francisco.
The PTM 2000 is an evolution of the company’s original adaptive Time Division Duplex-based point-to-multipoint system design. Steven Warwick, vice president of product strategy at Wavtrace, said the company’s first product offering proved out TDD as a technology but was voice-centric. The new product, he said, is an upgrade that takes into account higher levels of data usage.
“We’ve been working on the system for four years, and this is a natural evolution,” said Warwick, noting the company took into consideration feedback from operators in designing the new system. “We basically are trying to track where customers are now and provide a migration path in the future,” said Warwick.
The new system features hub switching capacity of 10 Gbps and RF payload capacity of 4 Gbps and can support more than 2,500 remote terminals, said the company.
It also includes Wavtrace’s BigBurst airlink technology, which provides a burst rate of 180 Mbps per carrier, which Wavtrace says is the largest burst rate in the industry.
The system architecture supports Internet Protocol, Asynchronous Transfer Mode and Time Division Multiplex connectivity. The system supports sector sizes of 30, 60 and 90 degrees and channel sizes of 12.5, 14, 25, 28, 50 and 56 MHz with flexible deployment and redundancy options, said the company.
In addition, the system’s underlying ATM architecture and standards-based Quality of Service allows provision of differentiated services, including prioritized voice, video and business-critical applications, said the company.
Wavtrace said the system is scalable, allowing operators to make limited deployments at first and grow with capacity demands, but it also can be deployed in large-scale, fully redundant network buildouts.
The product is scheduled for commercial availability during the fourth quarter.
