Rural Educational Digital Divide Narrows
San Diego, CA – August 17, 2016 – Metric Systems Corporation, (www.metricsystems.com), a San Diego-based manufacturer of White Space Spectrum broadband networking solutions, announced that Teleco Systems demonstrated how a RaptorXR broadband TVWS back-haul link can provide a rural K-12 school with world class broadband service in a few hours with minimum site preparation and without extended height antennas.
The deployment objective was to validate that a city edge, Wisconsin K-12 school, could be connected with a 40 Mbps full-duplex useful internet link to a host school 2.5 miles away. The path between schools is totally obscured by heavy vegetation and buildings.
Deployment Overview
A point-to-point link solution was found using Radio Mobile and 3 meter SRTM data. To provide a reliable 40 Mbps link two 20 Mbps Full Duplex links would be aggregated using 4 of the 16 locally available UHF channels. The illustration below shows the path along with systems design parameters. Note the system design called for antenna heights of 47’ ASL and 40’ AGL, respectively. Test heights of 28’ ASL and 26’ AGL provided an error-less link.
About the RaptorXR
The RaptorXR is the industry’s first Full-Duplex White Space Spectrum Broadband Network Radio. With models available for operation in the VHF (174-216 MHz) and UHF (470—698 MHz) bands, the RaptorXR extends performance unavailable with microwave based solutions.
User configurable to operate in Point-to-Point or ad hoc mesh configurations, the RaptorXR supports nearly any network topology connectivity requirement with Full-Duplex rates from 6 to 60mbps. Channel bonding and aggregation provide enhanced transfer rates and path redundancy in demanding geographies and topographies. (www.metricsystems.com/raptorxr-extended-range/)
For additional product or trial information or to reserve a RaptorXR production system please contact Bill Brown at bbrown@metricsystems.com or 760-845-1874.
About Metric Systems Corporation
Established in 1992 and headquartered in San Diego, California, USA, Metric Systems Corporation (MSC) designs and sells dynamic spectrum access wireless networking equipment and systems to support the connectivity requirements of Business, Industry, and Government.
About Teleco Systems Inc.
Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Mequon, Wisconsin, Teleco Systems Inc. specializes in the assessment, engineering and implementation of complex, high performance Wireless LANs, Point to Point, and Point to Multi-Point Wireless Communications. Concentrating in emerging technologies such as MoCA, RTLS and VoIP, as well as traditional WAN/LAN design and implementation, Teleco services the government, education, medical and large enterprise markets. For additional information contact Henry Hile at henry@telecorf.com or 414-350-8218.