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.
