Overview Presentation

70/80 GHz Gigabit Wireless

Spring 2006 Internet 2 Meeting
John Krzywicki and Jonathan Wells
 Agenda
WiFiber Wireless Fiber
What is WiFiber?
Economics Benefits
Licensing and ease of use
Domestic and international scope
WiFiber technology
Wireless and wireline technology landscape
Why 70/80 GHz?
High data rate alternatives
Technology comparisons
Installation and application examples

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 What is WiFiber?
Is
Point-to-Point Wireless Microwave
Radio
Upper millimeter wave transceivers
and antennas as a package
High frequency (71-76, 81-86 GHz)
Multi-gigabit-per-second
transmission (Voice, Video, Data)
Fiber-equivalent
Line of sight
Small footprint
Tower, rooftop, window, pole
mountable
Development trajectory up to OC-192
Carrier, municipal, and enterprise
installations

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 Capacity and Spectrum Advantage
Mbps

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 Disruptive Pricing
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 Fiber

All the cheap fiber has

already been laid.

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 Range and Reliability
No RF is impervious to weather: our sweet spot is the last 1-2 miles
We ONLY see torrential rain (3+ inches per hour)
The tradeoffs
In dry air: 10 mile range
Over the course of a year
Five 9s to a mile in 80% of the continental US
Five 9s to 0.7 miles in the rest (FL-LA)
Europe: Longer ranges
At Four 9s, distance doubles, and at Three 9s, nearly double again: useful
in the 3rd world
In a properly designed ring, the distance of each link can be doubled:
rotational diversity
To repeat, we do NOT see dust, fog, snow, ice, scintillation, oxygen, molecule
absorption, light rain, medium rain

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 GigaBeam WiFiber
Form Factor
Radio 1ft cubed
Antenna 12 or 24
Mount mono-pole, tower, window, or rooftop
Pencil beam low spread, low dispersion
Rated radio draw - 70 Watts (less than a light bulb)
Measured draw 50-55 Watts
Power output - 100mw (less than a cellular phone)
SNMP Monitoring
Installation: 4 hours or less
Alignment: typically 30 minutes of the four hours
Web based filing to get the spectrum license: 20 minutes

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 FCC Licensing

13,000 MHz
(71-76, 81-86, & 92-95GHz)
50+ times all cellular
combined
Gobs of spectrum
Licensed pencil beams
Nearly free to all comers
Lightening fast approval
process

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 International

Outside the US, fiber is less available and

access costs are often double or more US costs

CEPTEuropean wide bandplan granted

UK, Ireland, Norway, Spain, others showing progress

Circuits approved for installation in Australia, South Africa,

Bahrain

Growing interest in Japan, China, and Middle East

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 Solution Comparison

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 Atmospheric and Molecular Absorption

100

10

Sea Level Attenuation (dB/km)

0.1 71 to 86 GHz

Atmospheric Absorption < 0.5 dB/km

0.01
10 20 30 50 70 100 200 300 500 700 1000
Frequency (GHz) Per ITU-R P.676-6 (2005)
Data for mid-lat, summer

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 Rain Loss

100
71- 86 GHz
200 mm/hr
150 mm/hr: Monsoon
100 mm/hr: Tropical
50 mm/hr: Downpour
25 mm/hr: Heavy rain
10 12.5 mm/hr: Medium rain
2.5 mm/hr: Light rain
0.25 mm/hr: Drizzle

Note that sand, dust, fog,

Rain1Attenuation (dB/km)
snow, etc have no
significant effect
attenuation at mm-waves

0.1
1 10 100 1000
Frequency (GHz) Per ITU-R P.838-3 (2005)
Data for vertical polarization

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 WiFiber Distance Analysis

Rain Type Rate Rate WiFiber Distance

None n/a 18 miles
Trace 0.01 in/hr 14 miles
Drizzle 0.05 in/hr 11 miles
Light 0.1 in/hr 7 miles
Medium 0.5 in/hr 3.7 miles
Heavy 1 in/hr 2.3 miles
Tropical 2 in/hr 1.1 miles
Monsoon 4 in/hr 0.8 mile

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 Link Distance/Weather Availability
99.9% / 99.999% (By Rainfall Region)
3.5 / 1.1
MILES 4.0 / 1.3
MILES
3.0 / 1.1
MILES

2.5 / 1.0
MILES

2.1 / 0.8
3.9 / 1.2 MILES
MILES

1.5 / 0.6
MILES

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 71-76, 81-86, 92-95 GHz
Upper Millimeter Wave Spectrum Bands Support Multi-Gigabit-
per-Second Communications for 1 mile @ 99.999%

71-76, 81-86, & 92-95GHz

60GHz FSO

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 High Data Rate Comparisons

0.00001
99.999%

0.0001
99.99% Medium Range FSO
Weather Availability

Long Range FSO

60 GHz
70/80 GHz
GigaBeam
FCC Limit
0.001Availability
Weather
99.9%

0.01
99%
0 1 2 3 4 5
Link Distance (miles)

(Source:Basedonweatherstatisticsfor10largestUScities)

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 Conventional vs. GigaBeam Systems
Conventional Microwave Solutions (6 to 40 GHz)
Characteristics:
Channel size * Narrow Channels - typically 5 to 30 MHz
5 to 30 MHz * Moderate data rates - to OC-3 (155 Mbps)
* High complexity - up to 128 QAM (7 bits/Hz)
* Relatively narrow TR spacings
* High complexity systems

0 10 GHz 20 GHz 30 GHz 40 GHz 50 GHz 60 GHz 70 GHz 80 GHz 90 GHz 100 GHz

Channel Channel
Gigabeam Solution (70 & 80 GHz) size size
Characteristics: 5 GHz 5 GHz
* Wide channels - two 5 GHz channels (71-76 GHz paired with
81-86 GHz)
* Very high data rates - multi-gigabit to 10 Gbps
* Lower complexity - BPSK to 16 QAM (1 to 4 bits/Hz)
* Wide (10 GHz) channel spacings
* Significantly simpler systems

0 10 GHz 20 GHz 30 GHz 40 GHz 50 GHz 60 GHz 70 GHz 80 GHz 90 GHz 100 GHz

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 Technology Comparisons

E-Band Microwave radio 60 GHz radio Free Space

(70/80 GHz) (18-38 GHz) Optics

Max data rates 1 Gbps 311 Mbps 1 Gbps 1 Gbps

Typical link distances 1 mile 3 miles 400 yards 200 yards
(99.999% availability / 5
minutes outage per year)
Typical link distances (99.9% 2.5 miles 5+ miles 600 yards 500 yards
availability / 8 hours outage
per year)
LPD/LPI Yes Not usually Yes Yes
Regulatory protection Yes Yes No No
Licensing, installation and Hours Weeks Hours Hours
commissioning time
Relative product complexity Simple Complex Simple Complex

Suitable for rapid deployment Yes No Yes No

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 Major Carriers Are Adopting WiFiber

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 G-Series Supports City of Manteca, CA

Multiple GigaBeam G-Series radios installed for the

City of Manteca, CA.
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 G-Series Supports Kingdom of Bahrain

Kingdom of Bahrain Link connecting the Almoayyed Tower to

Amwaj Data Center. This link is 8 miles.

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 G-Series Supports San Fran Public Utility Commission

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 G-Series Supports Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

Point to Point
1.4 mi.

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 Applications: Access
GigaBeam on Rudin Managements 32 6th Avenue Facility Offers
Line of sight access to over 1,800 buildings
Line of sight access to Mid-town, New Jersey, Brooklyn and Queens
Direct access to numerous national and international carriers
Direct access to Internet II
Indirect access to Manhattan and New Jersey telecom facilities

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 Applications: Disaster Recovery

55 miles an hour to the

scene
30 minutes to erect tower
Circuits restored in 4
hours
Can recover 90 square
miles with 200+ T-1s for
<$1M
WiMAX style radios
for T-1 circuits

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John Krzywicki
VP Marketing, Strategy and
Business Development
C: 617-759-2105
john.krzywicki@gigabeam.com
Jonathan Wells PhD
Director Product Management
C: 925-200-5124
jonathan.wells@gigabeam.com

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