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Ceragon launches new platform for hetnet backhaul

Wireless backhaul provider Ceragon Networks unveiled a new platform for high-capacity backhaul designed to serve heterogeneous networks while integrating software-defined networking readiness.

The IP-20 “supports any radio transmission mix, any network topology and any configuration,” according to Ceragon, from small cells to macro cells and hybrid TDM/IP trunk solutions for high-capacity backbones, and provides a common programmable architecture for all of Ceragon’s FibeAir nodes as well as its Evolution multi-carrier trunk node. The platform also has a new operating system called CeraOS for service-oriented features and performance-boosting capabilities across all of the IP-20 products, Ceragon said, along wth a cohesive approach for operating and managing networks.

The company described the platform as “SDN-ready” and said it is “built around a powerful software-defined engine.”

“The IP-20 platform sers a new industry benchmark for microwave-based backhaul and fronthaul solutions,” said Ira Palti, Ceragon’s president and CEO. “With the IP-20 platform, our customers can smoothly transition to 4G/LTE/LTE-A, while preparing for future SDN architectures.”

Ceragon said that IP-20 products have already been deployed with some of its customers around the world.

 

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Kelly Hill
Kelly Hill
Kelly reports on network test and measurement, as well as the use of big data and analytics. She first covered the wireless industry for RCR Wireless News in 2005, focusing on carriers and mobile virtual network operators, then took a few years’ hiatus and returned to RCR Wireless News to write about heterogeneous networks and network infrastructure. Kelly is an Ohio native with a masters degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, where she focused on science writing and multimedia. She has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, The Oregonian and The Canton Repository. Follow her on Twitter: @khillrcr