Alcatel-Lucent
MDR-8000Packet Plus
DigitalMicrowave Radio
Flexible Wireless Transport
for Your Voice, Video and Data Needs
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.
MDR-8000 Packet Plus Features and Benefits
–Proven Reliability
–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
–Common platform across all configurations
–Highest adjacent channel interference rejection
–Robust operating characteristics
-Highest system gain
-Forward Error Correction
-Multiple configurations available (nonstandby, hot-standby, space diversity, frequency diversity, quad diversity)
–Ensures trouble-free operation
–Provides an ideal match for your system requirements and available spectrum
–Minimizes spares and training requirements
–Allows operation in congested frequency bands
–Delivers high availability on even the most troublesome paths, and allows longer paths to be implemented using smaller antennas
–In-service capacity expansion
–Smallest size, with both indoor and outdoor installation options
–Provides economical and simple growth to meet your needs, with no stranded investment
–Allows flexibility with system installation and location
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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.
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.
MDR-8000 Packet Plus Standard Shelf Configuration
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Applications
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 longand 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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Public Safety Networks
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.
Public Safety
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.
Utilities, Pipelines and Railroads
Headquarters
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