Communications redundancy leads to swift restoration of service following natural disaster
Communications redundancy leads to swift restoration of service following natural disaster
T1 and Microwave link replacement to cut O&M costs plus improve reliability
Do you only require a fraction of the bandwidth of your microwave communications links? Or are your leased lines becoming too expensive?
Often our customers find they only utilize a small portion of the available bandwidth provided by microwave to their sites – a clear case of bandwidth overkill. With leased lines either no longer being supported or increasing in cost and fiber being too expensive, customers turned to microwave as a suitable replacement that offered a licensed/protected circuit for their point-to point-needs. While microwave provides higher reliability than leased lines, due to their operation in broadband spectrum, microwave systems therefore require customers to acquire considerably more bandwidth than they actually need. Furthermore, given the size of the dishes, a microwave system requires dedicated towers that can withstand the weight therefore increasing the cost to operate such a system.
The cost-benefit analysis of T1 and microwave link replacement
Factoring in the cost to replace ageing microwave systems or obsolete leased lines, the annual maintenance fees and the expense associated with your footprint (both on the tower and inside the equipment shack, in the case of microwave) and the cost-benefit argument for continuing to utilize microwave or leased lines fails to stack up.
Both leased lines and microwave links struggle to maintain their reliability during rain events where rain induced fading impacts microwave and ground saturation issues occuring with leased lines. Furthermore, due to their narrow antenna beamwidth, any offset due to ground movement in a natural disaster can make a microwave link fail and leased lines can be ripped apart during the force of an earthquake or flooding-induced landslip.
Key benefits of replacing T1 & microwave links
Ubiik Mimomax offers point-to-point links with ultra-low latency, ultra-high reliability and full duplex aggregate data rates of 1280 kbps in a 50 kHz channel. Due to the compact nature of the antennas, a Ubiik Mimomax system can also be deployed on existing infrastructure, saving costs in renting tower space. The key benefits you’ll experience in swapping out T1 or microwave links for narrowband:
- Reduce Operations & Maintenance costs associated with either leased line fees or microwave maintenance and footprint rental fees:
- Improve your network reliability with communications links designed to cope with adverse meteorological conditions;
- Disaster-proof your mission critical links with wide beamwidth radio antennas;
- Deploy longer links in one-hop, reducing equipment in your network.
