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Alcatel-Lucent
MDR-8000 Packet Plus
Digital Microwave Radio
Flexible Wireless Transport
for Your Voice, Video and Data Needs
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Introduction With more than 50 years of experience in wireless transmission, Alcatel- Lucent provides a solid foundation for your mission-critical network, and continually fosters visions for the future. As a pioneer in point-to-point microwave radios, Alcatel-Lucent has continually demonstrated its leadership in wireless technology. Our history of design innovation began when the former Collins Radio Company developed the first commercial microwave radios in the 1950s. Alcatel-Lucent maintains
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Overview The MDR-8000 Packet Plus is Alcatel-Lucent’s premier digital microwave radio for long-haul, point-to-point wireless communications. The flexible platform offers features designed to provide robust operation, while also reducing your total cost of ownership. With a common platform that supports virtually all frequency bands from 2-11 GHz, the MDR-8000 Packet Plus can meet your needs for high-capacity backbone routes, as well as low- capacity spurs. It offers transmission capacity from 4-
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Applications Wireless Backhaul As cellular and PCS networks continue to grow, the MDR-8000 Packet Plus is an ideal choice for connecting cell sites or backhauling traffic to the switch. The broad range of capacities and frequency bands provide ultimate flexibility for both long- and short-haul applications. In addition, the high reliability typically provides vastly superior performance as compared to leased DS1 circuits, usually with a very attractive payback period. The unlicensed versions of
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Public Safety Networks Public Safety Public safety networks must provide mission critical services, be quickly expandable, and be easily managed from end to end. Applications may be for interfacility and inter-agency communications, or for backhaul in land mobile radio (LMR) networks. Public safety networks also face a variety of critical issues: interfacility communications are becoming more complex and require higher bandwidth; use of real-time video is increasing, as well as data – primarily
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Local Exchange Carriers Broadcast Auxiliary Service The MDR-8000 Packet Plus is an ideal solution for Digital microwave has proven itself as an excellent extending a local exchange carrier’s network beyond choice for broadcasters to transport their video signals, their traditional franchise boundaries, whether it is one either as direct studio to transmitter links (STLs), or location outside the franchise area or multiple locations for distributing the video signals across large geographic acros
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Federal Government Agencies The MDR-8000 Packet Plus also provides its rugged characteristics in service to the U.S. Federal Government. Operating in the NTIA-regulated frequency bands, the highly compact radio can mount in the tightest spaces while providing wireless means for overcoming geographic obstacles, right-of-way costs, and construction delays associated with wired facilities. This scalable and readily-deployable architecture provides reliable backbone communications for agencies such
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Common Platform In-Service Capacity Cost-Saving Features The MDR-8000 Packet Plus is Upgrades Industry-High System Gain based on a common platform for The MDR-8000 Packet Plus offers The MDR-8000 Packet Plus has the all frequency bands and capacities. the widest range of interfaces and highest system gain available today. This approach greatly simplifies capacities available today, with the System gain is the most common training and maintenance, since all ability to provide 4-32 DS1s, benchmark
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Flexible Ethernet Options Unlike standard TDM radios, the A & B Separate – Dual Having established its reliability, Ethernet version of the MDR-8000 Channel scalability, and versatility in Packet Plus offers input/output The dual channel configuration delivering TDM traffic, the MDR- (I/O) provisioning options and uses the same hardware as a 8000 Packet Plus is also poised for operating modes uniquely developed frequency diversity configuration the next wave of network migration. to support pa
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Licensed and Unlicensed transmitters and direct modulation Operation overcome most interference and The MDR-8000 Packet Plus takes improve overall system quality. advantage of virtually all of the Unlicensed operation offers the licensed frequency bands used for same spectral efficiency and provides long-haul systems in North America. an option for transporting up to 16 Operating from 2 to 11 GHz in all DS1s or 24 Mb/s Ethernet. In the of the FCC Part 101 and Part 74 5.8 GHz band, up to 150 Mb/s
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significantly helps to overcome interference. In practical terms, the MDR-8000 Packet Plus can operate with an antenna one size smaller than a spread spectrum radio on paths longer than 8 miles. The narrowband modulation of the MDR-8000 Packet Plus also allows better utilization of the available spectrum, as multiple RF channel pairs can be utilized. This is especially helpful at multi-way junction sites where a wider array of selectable frequencies is required to avoid intra-system interference
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Wayside DS1s Alcatel-Lucent’s MDR-8000 Packet Plus provides one DS1 hot-standby protected wayside signal per DS3 equipped on the radio. Therefore, a 1xDS3 radio also includes one wayside DS1, and a 3xDS3 or OC-3 radio offers three wayside DS1 MDR-8000 Compact Shelf circuits. These ancillary DS1 channels can be used for maintenance circuits (quick, easy introduction of additional orderwires, data channels, and LAN/WAN circuits), or they can be used to carry MDR-8000 Compact Shelf critical traffic
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congested. Where wider channels at the far end of the link. This is far Performance-Enhancing are allowed, 32 TCM occupies a superior to competing radios which Features wider spectrum, but offers even merely turn the far-end transmitter Robust Multipath higher system gain. This allows to full power whenever the receive Countermeasures paths to be stretched even further, signal level crosses the ATPC The MDR-8000 Packet Plus while still maintaining extremely threshold. FCC regulations limit emplo
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protocols. The parallel interface together under one common network provides access to radio and station management umbrella. Based on Full Range of information, including both radio Telecommunications Management Configurations and station alarms and status, as well Network (TMN) standards, SNMP The MDR-8000 Packet Plus radio as controls. The serial interface provides a vehicle to improve family is available in a full range supports a variety of network interoperability between equipment of confi
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historically these applications have been addressed by multiline systems, Network Expertise there are some drawbacks to that In addition to having the most approach. With a MultiChannel complete microwave portfolio configuration, each working channel in the industry, Alcatel-Lucent has 100% equipment protection, is also able to offer our customers unlike multiline systems that share complete, integrated systems, a single protect channel across each incorporating numerous technologies working cha
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