Stratum™ 100

High Capacity Wireless Transport for Ethernet and T1
As applications demand higher bandwidths, traditional solutions have not been up to the challenge. Intended for high speed data applications such as Corporate Intranets, Inter-Building LAN and voice transport and Multi-Megabit Internet Access, Stratum 100 allows users to break away from costly terrestrial lines. With full duplex 100 Mbps Ethernet bridging and two T1 links for voice traffic, Stratum 100 puts you in the driver's seat for your short haul, high capacity communications needs. In fact, Stratum 100 offers users the highest capacity for voice and data of any Unlicensed Band wireless product in the market today.

In contrast to traditional microwave equipment, Stratum 100 delivers this unprecedented high capacity with none of the negative factors associated with microwave. There's no worry about rain fades or poor bit error rates. Stratum 100 links perform as well as fiber, at a fraction of the cost and with far less time to deploy.

Key Features

Product Overview
Wavespan's Stratum 100 is the first product operating in the U-NII bands to merge high capacity voice and data with ease of installation and operation. Stratum 100 incorporates a MAC layer Ethernet bridge for high capacity bridging of all Ethernet traffic types, including IP and Voice over IP. With autosense for 10/100 Ethernet, full or half duplex LAN support combined with 802.1d subset, Stratum 100 requires very little in the way of initial configuration. In addition to the 100 Mbps full duplex bridging capabilities, Stratum 100 includes two DSX-1 interfaces for transport of voice between digital PBXs or other T1 traffic. The DSX-1 interfaces operate equally well for channelized or unchannelized T1 applications.

Operating at distances up to 5 miles, Stratum 100 far outperforms ISM band radios and Infrared devices. And Stratum 100 is easily managed using SNMP or the native HTML Graphical User Interface.

Rapid Deployment
Wavespan's Stratum 100 operates in the newly allocated U-NII bands, with no FCC licensing requirements. Unlicensed band operation removes the waiting time involved with frequency coordination and license approval. Stratum 100 can be deployed immediately in contrast with up to six weeks delay for deployment of licensed band products. Additionally, if your needs change, Stratum 100 links can be relocated without applying for license changes.

Stratum 100 links use flat panel phased-array antennas. The small size (18" x 18" x 3/4") of the antenna and light weight of the Outdoor Unit allow most installations to use a simple tripod mount, with no expensive installations of towers required.

Fiber Class Performance
For years, fiber has been the performance standard for communications media. Today, Wavespan brings the outstanding performance of fiber to wireless communications. Stratum 100 employs Reed-Solomon (t=8) Forward Error Correction, so powerful that it can correct up to 8 bytes, or 64 bits, of errors in a single block. Combined with the use of Viterbi convolutional code, Stratum 100 links deliver excellent SNR performance, exceeding 10(-12) BER. This superior performance is far better than copper based services and equal to that of fiber.

Because Stratum 100 operates in the 5 GHz U-NII bands, rain, fog and other weather conditions do not adversely affect operation. Operation in the 5 GHz bands also allows Stratum 100 to operate at greater distances than similar equipment operating at higher frequency, licensed bands.

100 + 3 Mbps Full Duplex Throughput
Stratum 100 delivers 100 Mbps full duplex throughput for transport of Ethernet traffic, so the communication link is no longer the bottleneck in the network. In addition to the 100 Mbps for LAN traffic, Stratum 100 incorporates two DSX-1 interfaces for point-to-point transport of T1 traffic such as digital voice. Each T1 operates at full speed and does not share bandwidth with the LAN traffic, so all data streams receive the maximum throughput with the lowest latency. The high capacity makes Stratum 100 the ideal choice for bandwidth hungry applications like Multi-Megabit Internet Access, Voice-over-IP and real-time video and imaging.

Installation, Maintenance, Management and Monitoring
Designed for installation and maintenance by IT professionals, one or two people can install a Stratum 100 link in a matter of hours. Antenna aiming is accomplished without the use of costly test equipment and no special training is required for mounting or configuration.

Stratum 100 requires no maintenance or calibration for the life of the product. In fact, once the radio and antenna are installed, you can virtually forget them. Even software upgrades to the Outdoor Unit are downloaded from the Indoor Unit via the IDU-ODU fiber interface.

Day to day monitoring can be accomplished using SNMP or TELNET, manageable from any standard SNMP manager such as OpenView or SunNet Manager™. Industry standard MIB II and a Wavespan Enterprise MIB allow full access to parameters for SNMP management. Stratum 100 can send traps to multiple hosts to ensure operators of up to the minute statuses.

When using the integrated menu driven configuration and management screens, both ends of the link are accessible from the main screen. This allows the operator to compare configurations at a glance and to access packet and radio statistics from a single interface. An integrated HTML GUI interface is also standard, allowing password protected access from standard web browsers.

Summary
Stratum 100 is the first product in the unlicensed bands to offer 100 Mbps Ethernet transport which, when coupled with the dual DSX-1 inputs, allows it to serve both data and voice applications with industry standard interfaces. Combining ease of installation and management, Stratum 100 lets users enjoy the advantages of high capacity, high performance broadband communications without the high recurring costs of traditional broadband circuits.

Specifications System

Ethernet Bridge: MAC Layer
Bridge Throughput: 100 Mbps, full duplex
DS-1 Throughput 2 x 1.544 Mbps, full duplex
Software: FLASH, remotely downloadable in or out of band, IDU and ODU

LAN Interfaces
Types/Connectors 10/100 Base-Tx/ RJ-45 and MII
Rate: 10/100 Mbps, auto-sense
Full or half-duplex operation, autosense
Protocols/standards: 802.3u, 802.1d subset

DSX-1 Interfaces
Types/Connectors (2) DSX-1/ RJ-45

Network Management
Console port: RS-232/RJ45 DCE
AUx port: RS-232/RJ45 DTE
In-Band RF or LAN links: via SNMP, HTML GUI or V100/Telnet
SNMP Agent: MIB II (RFC 1213), Enterprise MIB, T1 MIB
Alarms: stored in log, sent as SNMP traps
Statistics: Ethernet packet statistics,
DS-1 performance statistics, RF Link statistics, RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator)

Security
Configuration Mgmt: Multi-level passwords
SNMP authentication
Link Security: Payload scrambling
Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP)

RF Link
Band:(License-free U-NII band)
Configuration A Tx: 5.25 to 5.35 GHz
Rx: 5.725 to 5.825 GHz
Configuration B Tx: 5.725 to 5.825 GHz
Rx: 5.25 to 5.35 GHz
(Link requires one radio each of Configurations A & B)
Propagation: Line-of-sight
Range: up to 5 miles
Weather Sensitivity: None
Compatibility: FCC Part 15.247

Transmitter ERP:
Power Output: -1 dBm typical (normal)
-24 dBm typical (low power setting)

Integral Antenna
Size: 18" x 18"
Type: Flat Phased Array with integrated radome
Gain: 27 dBi
Beamwidth: 6° (3 dB points)
Polarization: Linear; horizontal or vertical

Reliability
BER: 10 (-12) or better, unfaded

Physical Dimensions:
Indoor Unit (IDU): 1.72"H x 17"W x 12"D
4.4 cm x 43.2 cm x 30.5 cm
Outdoor Unit (ODU): 4.2"H x 15"W x 12.5"D
5.7cm x 38.1 cm x 31.8 cm
Integral Antenna: 18.7"H x 18.7"W x .75"D
47.5cm x 47.5 cm x 1.9 cm

Mounting
Indoor Unit (IDU): 19" EIA rack (1 unit), wall or tabletop
Integral Antenna: Mast or Antenna w/ ODU

Power
IDU:
AC: 90 to 240 VAC, 50/60 Hz

IDU-ODU Connection
IDU-ODU data stream: Two multi-mode fibers w/ ST connectors
Power to ODU 18 AWG
Maximum IDU-ODU
Separation: 1000 feet

Environmental
IDU Operating Temp: 0° to 50° C
IDU Relative Humidity: 0-95% non-condensing
ODU Operating Temp: -30° to 55° C
ODU Relative Humidity: up to 100% all weather operation
ODU Windloading: 80 Mph (129 km/h) operational/ 120 Mph (193 km/h) survivability
Altitude: 15,000' (4,573 m) AMSL

Regulatory
Safety: UL 1950
EMC: IDU: FCC Part 15, Class A
ODU: FCC Part 15, Class A

Preliminary. Specifications subject to change without notice.