Robust Backhaul, Today!

The INTRALINK™ product family of Point-to-Point MW radios - from 6 GHz to 38 GHz - delivers reliable wireless connections as required by the demanding backhaul and private network applications.

The products are using advanced radio technology transporting native TDM and native Ethernet traffic, allowing for a cost-effective backhaul of 2G / 3G & 4G networks.

The INTRALINK™ rich-feature and future-proof platform meets the operators' most stringent demands by offering unparalleled configuration flexibility to support complex network architectures. With the ability to handle any TDM & Ethernet traffic mix, INTRALINK™ enables wireless carriers to implement PDH / Super PDH / SDH and pure Ethernet access and aggregation networks.

Benefits

• Hybrid technology - effective transport of TDM traffic today and instant migration to Ethernet tomorrow.
• Pay-as-you-grow, scalable architecture - granular capacity management.
• Straightforward modular design (ISR), with hot-swappable modules, for:
  • Carrier-class reliability
  • Fast deployment & upgrade
• Spectrum utilization - the available air bandwidth is efficiently used to transport a configurable mix of native TDM and native Ethernet traffic simultaneously.
• High performance - assured reliability and always-available capacity, assisted by leading technologies, and offering:
  • Reliability through self-healing redundancy.
  • Network scalability without service interruption.
  • Minimum network maintenance.

The INTRALINK™ family of products offers a rich set of features to allow for a wide range of network applications:

• High transmission rates - up to 360 Mbit/s net throughput, upgradeable to 720 Mbit/s (over a single 56 MHz channel with XPIC).
• High capacity agility from a single 1RU indoor unit:
  • Native TDM & native Ethernet
  • Options for TDM and Ethernet capacity: 2 x E1 to 126 x E1, up to 360Mbit/s capacity for Ethernet
  • Options for Ethernet interfaces: from 2 x FE to 4 x GbE
  • Options for STM1: 1 x STM-1 to 4 x STM-1 (VC-12)
  • Options for TDM interfaces: 2 x E1 to 63 x E1
• Internal add/drop multiplexer for SDH ring configurations.
• Rich-featured Ethernet functionality:
  • Up to 16 user-defined VLANs
  • Transparent pass of VLAN-tagged frames
  • Tagging of ingress frames / untagging of egress frames
  • Q-in-Q double-tagging
  • Support of Jumbo frames (4000 / 9728 bytes)
• Diversity of channel sizes (3.5 MHz to 56 MHz).
• Robust transmission - 120 dB system gain.
• Hitless radio switching capability.
• Adaptive Coding & Modulation (ACM).
• Software-selectable modulation - QPSK / 16-QAM / 32-QAM / 64-QAM / 128-QAM / 256-QAM - for spectral efficiency and adherence to worldwide regulatory emissions guidelines.
• State-of-the-art network management (uni|MS™)

Through a big variety of legacy PDH / SDH and Ethernet interfaces, INTRALINK™ enables flexible fault-tolerant configurations covering a wide range of demanding backhaul & transport applications. Its rich features (Ethernet QoS, integrated add/drop multiplexer, native SDH transmission, etc.) allow realizing complex network architectures.

The typical applications for INTRALINK™ product family include:

• Backhaul for 2G / 3G & 4G networks.
• Private corporate networks.
• Special purpose communication and control networks for utility companies.
• Backhaul for TETRA networks

The figure below depicts typical applications and network topologies enabled by the INTRALINK™ ISR and IDR-LC systems.

INTRALINK™ is a split-mount system mainly composed of a compact 1RU indoor unit (ISR, IDR-LC) and the outdoor radio units (ODU) with integrated antennas.

Technical Characteristics:

IDR-LC Indoor Unit

• Cost-effective compact (1RU) solution for network edge deployments and low cost-per-bit.
• Legacy TDM & Ethernet backhaul - up to 34 Mbit/s capacity.
• Seamless integration to 3G / 2G networks.
• Protected 1+1 link configurations (HSB / FD / SD).

ISR Indoor Unit

• Modular & compact (1RU).
• Up to 360 Mbit/s capacity (over a single 56 MHz channel) - 720 Mbit/s with XPIC.
• Native Ethernet & native TDM solution.
• Cost-effective design with hot-swappable modules.
• Pay-as-you-grow capacity expansion.
• Ethernet QoS
• Single-chassis configurations with two modems:
  • 1+1 (HSB / FD / SD)
  • 2+0 East / West, for repeater stations or ring deployments
  • 2+0 East / East, for maximum traffic throughputs
• XPIC
• Adaptive Coding & Modulation (ACM).
• Embedded add/drop multiplexer.
• 256-QAM
• Up to 56 MHz radio channel.

ODU Radio Unit

• Universal - any capacity, any channel size, any traffic type.
• Complete homogeneous family (from 6 GHz to 38 GHz).
• Leading 120 dB system gain.
• High-power, high-performance.
• Compact & lightweight for easy installation.
• Robust, environmentally-hardened housing.
• Integrated symmetrical or asymmetrical couplers for protected link scenarios (1+1 HSB, 1+1 FD).
• Integrated antenna up to 1.8 m.
• Highest-performance XPIC implementations using advanced design.
• Orthomode Transducer (OMT) systems.