Alcatel-Lucent MDR-8000 User Manual
Alcatel-Lucent
MDR-8000 Packet Plus
Digital Microwave Radio
Flexible Wireless Transport
for Your Voice, Video and Data Needs
MDR-8000 Packet Plus Features and Benefits
– Proven Reliability – Ensures trouble-free operation
– Broadest range of frequencies
and capacities
- 2, 4, 5.8, L6, U6, 8, 10, 11 GHz
- 4, 8, 16, 32 DS1s; 1, 3 DS3s;
OC-3; 50, 150 Mb/s Ethernet
– Provides an ideal match for
your system requirements
and available spectrum
– Common platform across
all configurations
– Minimizes spares and training
requirements
– Highest adjacent channel
interference rejection
– Allows operation in congested
frequency bands
– Robust operating
characteristics
- Highest system gain
- Forward Error Correction
- Multiple configurations
available (nonstandby,
hot-standby, space diversity,
frequency diversity, quad
diversity)
– Delivers high availability
on even the most
troublesome paths, and
allows longer paths to be
implemented using smaller
antennas
– In-service capacity expansion
– Provides economical and
simple growth to meet your
needs, with no stranded
investment
– Smallest size, with both indoor
and outdoor installation
options
– Allows flexibility with system
installation and location
Introduction
With more than 50 years of experience in wireless transmission, AlcatelLucent 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 the Collins
tradition, setting the industry standard for microwave communications
all over the world with scalable, reliable, economical, and readily deployable
wireless backbone communications systems.
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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 lowcapacity spurs. It offers transmission
capacity from 4-32 DS1s, 1-3 DS3s,
OC-3, and 10/100/1000 Base-T
Ethernet, with the ability to upgrade
capacity in service simply by
changing Capacity Keys™. The
common platform that supports
all of these options provides users
ultimate flexibility in configuring
and equipping an entire network,
with simplified operation and
maintenance. With the widest range
of long-haul frequency bands, the
most complete range of interfaces
and capacities, and the highest
system gain in the industry, the
MDR-8000 is the undisputed leader
in microwave transport.
MDR-8000 Packet Plus Standard Shelf Configuration
This flexible and scalable
architecture provides reliable
wireless backbone communications
for cellular operators, public safety
agencies, railways, pipelines, utilities,
local exchange carriers, television
stations, and private enterprise.
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Applications
BTS/Node B
BSC/RNC
BSC/RNC
Last mile Aggregation
Backhauling Backbone
Metro
Carriers’ Networks
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 the radio also permit rapid deployment of point-to-point links, allowing
new cell sites to be turned up quickly to meet service demands.
In addition, as backhaul networks transition from TDM to IP-based services,
the MDR-8000 Packet Plus can manage the transition seamlessly by carrying
both signal types simultaneously with unlimited flexibility.
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ublic Safety Networks
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ublic Safety
Utilities, Pipelines and Railroads
Headquarters
P
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 IP traffic – to
support departmental LANs and inter-departmental
WANs; and the trend of sharing data across jurisdictions
is accelerating the demand for more bandwidth. The
MDR-8000 Packet Plus radio addresses all of these
issues cost effectively, while providing the security
and redundancy that public safety officials require.
State and Local Government Systems
Municipalities have similar needs as those of public
safety operators. Municipal planning districts need
converged services that support mission-critical voice,
data, and video communications, along with LMR
interoperability. Government agencies can rely on
the MDR-8000 Packet Plus to provide the reliable,
high-quality communications they require. Unlicensed
versions of the MDR-8000 Packet Plus are also ideal
for emergency restoration and backup of critical
communication links.
Transportation and Utility Systems
Transportation and utility companies also require the
highest and most stringent level of availability, quality,
and resiliency. Growth, new technologies, and everincreasing security demands require a secure core
architecture with state-of-the-art network management
in order to reach widely dispersed rural areas, often
covering rough terrain, where no other infrastructure
exists. Support for data networking applications and
services such as SCADA, video surveillance for
monitoring remote sections of pipelines or highways,
and reliability to overcome homeland security threats
are all readily addressed by the MDR-8000 Packet Plus.
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