Ceragon Networks Breaks Wireless Capacity Barrier with Industry's First 311 Mbps Commercial Deployment
TEL AVIV, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 2000--
FirstMark Comunicaciones Espana Installs New FibeAir(TM) 3100 in
Nationwide SDH Network
Ceragon Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq:CRNT), a global provider of high-capacity broadband wireless systems for next generation communications networks, and First Mark Comunicaciones Espana, a leading broadband operator, announce today that the broadband wireless capacity barrier has been broken with the industry's first commercial deployment of a 311 Mbps system, Ceragon's FibeAir 3100.
The FibeAir 3100 is a scalable, ultra-high capacity wireless networking solution that enables service providers to progressively increase network capacity from 155 to 311 Mbps. Based on Ceragon's FibeAir 1500, the FibeAir 3100 operates in the same frequency channel in dual polarization, thus doubling the capacity over a single channel. The FibeAir 3100 is compliant with ETSI and FCC standards for operation worldwide.
FirstMark Communications is building out a pervasive, end-to-end broadband communications network in Europe. FirstMark Comunicaciones Espana is deploying both the FibeAir 1500 and 3100 systems, operating in the 38 GHz band, to provide high-speed connectivity throughout FirstMark's wireless metropolitan network in Spain.
"Ceragon was the first company in the world to deliver high-capacity, high-frequency wireless connections at 155 Mbps in the 38 GHz frequency band, and now we continue to maintain our leadership position as the first company to provide 311 Mbps for commercial deployment," said Shraga Katz, president and CEO, Ceragon Networks. "At 311 Mbps, our FibeAir 3100 not only exceeds all other commercial system speeds, but it also drives additional revenue for our customers by optimizing resources."
"As a rapidly expanding competitive service provider, our challenge is to quickly and cost-effectively deploy flexible and reliable broadband networks," said Luis Rodriguez, COO, FirstMark Comunicaciones Espana. "The Ceragon FibeAir 3100 helps accomplish this by allowing us to easily double our network capacity when we need to, without using more spectrum."
Ceragon's 311 Mbps systems uses a single channel to transport high-speed Internet access and integrated data, video and voice services. These higher capacity systems offer customers deployment flexibility with a variety of interfaces (OC-3/STM-1, Fast Ethernet and DS3/E3), frequency bands (18, 23, 26, 28, 29, 31 and 38 GHz) and transport protocols (IP, SONET/SDH, ATM) within a modular system architecture. The scalable FibeAir 3100 is the industry's first commercially proven high-frequency system with capacity that can be expanded from 155 to 311 Mbps. |
