April 27, 2023
Maximizing Your Business’s Potential: The 4 Benefits of Financing Equipment
When it comes to purchasing new equipment for your business, finding the right financing solution is crucial. Not only can financing help you preserve your cash reserves, but it can also allow you to spread the cost of equipment purchases out over time and take advantage of tax benefits.
April 13, 2023
Out with Backorders, in with Aviat: The Microwave Link Provider That Delivers on Time
In today's fast-paced world, high-speed internet connectivity is crucial for businesses. To keep their networks operational, service providers must efficiently deploy microwave links. Unfortunately, backorders from manufacturers often create challenges, negatively affecting business growth and scalability.
September 21, 2018
Aviat Keeps Antarctica Research Centers Connected
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has operated the United States Antarctic Program (USAP) since its inception in the 1950s. Program scientists perform a variety of critical research projects there that rely heavily on communications with the outside world—for transmission of research data for analysis, for contact with other researchers in the U.S. and other regions of the world, for personal communications between the Antarctica staff and their families and others, and for many other purposes.
August 30, 2018
Case Study: Chugach Electric’s Measured Approach to Migrating Teleprotection to IP/MPLS
Chugach Electric’s network migration began in 2010, when they first identified upcoming issues with their existing network, which consisted of end-of-life hardware and capacity bottlenecks. The migration was critical to ensure traffic across operations that covered an expansive footprint remained flowing and without any issues and to be also to evolve the network to enable allow future technologies, services, and applications.
July 7, 2017
How to Avoid Costly Emergency Repairs by Performing Proactive Maintenance in 4 Simple Steps
By Ramon Morales, NOC Operations Team, US
It’s 2:30 AM Saturday morning and the phone rings dragging you out of a deep sleep. Groggily you answer the phone and a voice at the end of the line is alerting you that the communication system is in alarm and traffic is down. While trying to figure out what’s going on, you remember you are the person responsible for your company’s communication infrastructure.
June 7, 2017
Microwave radio choices
There’s no one-size-fits-all in microwave. Each radio architecture comes with tradeoffs, so you need to weigh the choices in each segment of the network to get the right product mix for your business. To determine your best solution, first establish your requirements from a capacity, reliability, operational, and cost perspective. Then choose the right product. Microwave’s major technologies include the following.
May 25, 2017
5 Things You Should Know About RSL
By Ramon Morales, NOC Operations Team, US
Do you remember the last time your blood pressure was checked? I remember staring at the results wondering what the numbers meant. Usually my thoughts are, “Great, does this mean I’m healthy or should I be concerned?”
Recently, one of our customers had a similar experience with an email received from our customer service group. The customer’s initial impression was that the content received was vague and meaningless. “What am I supposed to do with this information?”, the customer asked.
May 15, 2017
Pierce County case study – Teamwork resolves critical network issue
“Pierce County has been and continues to look at Aviat as a strategic partner for day to day operations, problem resolution, system configuration, upgrades and on-going preventive maintenance for our Public Safety infrastructure that support over 23 Law Enforcement and Fire jurisdictions, Regional Transit and over 900,000 citizens.”
Tim Lenk, Pierce County, Communications System Division Manager, Emergency Management
February 24, 2017
State-Wide Microwave Network Case Study: Extra High Power Radios
This large western US state had a longtime relationship with a microwave radio vendor and would have continued buying from them if their radios and support evolved with the State’s needs. However, over time its needs changed and it had to have more capabilities from its communications network. But it did not want to unnecessarily build new sites and erect costly new towers.
November 23, 2016
Case Study: Longest Microwave Link in a Mobile Phone Network
Recently, the longest microwave link (189 km) ever turned up in a public mobile phone network went live in Tonga. It’s part of operator Digicel’s Pacific network. Engineers at Aviat Networks thrive on challenges. We go farther for our customers—in products, service and distance. For example, Aviat Networks previously implemented a very long all-IP backhaul connection across 193 km of open water in Central America for a private network application.
August 22, 2016
Case Study: When Extra High Power Can Reduce Need for Space Diversity
When designing microwave networks, backhaul engineers have a wide variety of techniques at their disposal. One method that remains highly effective is Space Diversity (SD). With SD, two antennas separated by some distance can increase the availability of a link from something less than 99.999 percent to in excess of five-nines uptime. However, the introduction of a second parabolic antenna on a microwave path poses a substantial increase in the capital expenditure (capex) budget.