Reliability and resilience are key requirements for any backhaul network supporting mission critical communications. However, other lesser known aspects which must be considered are:
The role of sophisticated traffic management technologies in maintaining the criticality of voice traffic across a network where voice and data is converged is only now being fully appreciated. Radios which can assign priority to with integrated traffic classifiers which mark packets on the radio, work to ensure critical voice is expedited ahead of other data.
“Mimomax has made DMR and P25 linking plug and play, incorporating solutions like Data Acceleration into our Tornado radios to manage traffic, and compress digital streams to just 10-15Kb/s ” says John Billows, Sales Manager for Mimomax.
“Customers increasingly need these features as standard along with a level of sophistication to deliver predictable low latency for more complex applications for simulcast and voting. It is now common for us to deliver point-to-point links to backhaul Digital LMR as well as provide solutions for legacy 4 Wire Audio along with residual IP services for monitoring, control and OTAP,” says Billows.