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Jul 25, 2006 Issue 47
HIGHLIGHTS

Telco Combines E1 & Wireless for a Better Backhaul Solution
Pakistan’s largest private telecom, Worldcall, uses wireless backhauls to extend the reach of its E1 lines
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smartBridges Rolls Out Wi-Fi Antennas Operating in Multiple License Free Bands
smartBridges’ complete range of multi-band antennas saves space and saves cost for service providers
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Moonblink Communications signs as smartBridges Distributor
A new partner joins smartBridges Channel Partner Program for North Americas
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smartBridges Releases New Firmware for airPoint Nexus PRO TOTAL (sB3212) and airClient Nexus PRO TOTAL (sB3412)
New firmware for access point now includes Sputnik Agent
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Monitoring smartBridges Nexus Radios using MRTG
MRTG Tutorial to aid your network management
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smartBridges' Nexus Starter Kit Promotion
All the equipment you need for a quick deployment of a complete wireless broadband network at a great price
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CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORIES

Telco Combines E1 & Wireless for a Better Backhaul Solution

Wireless is easily the lowest cost and most easily implemented solution today for the increasing backhaul demands for a Telco's network. When a Telco in Pakistan needed to extend E1 lines to reach a customer, it chose a wireless backhaul to avoid laying cable for a single link. Worldcall, one of Pakistan's largest private telecom operators, decided on smartBridges Nexus backhaul to extend the E1 lines to the leading GSM cellular operator in Pakistan with over 17 million subscribers.

The wireless link, implemented by NetSoft Solutions, smartBridges Channel Partner, connects the customer's office to Worldcall premises in Lahore, Pakistan's second largest city. By choosing a wireless link in the unlicensed band, Worldcall achieved immediate deployment and hence immediate revenue realization while keeping Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) and Operating Expenditure (OPEX) to a minimum.

"We chose smartBridges airHaul Nexus backhaul because its dual band capability gives great interference resistance by changing to a different band of frequency and its ultra high receive sensitivity ensures consistent high throughput," said Zeeshan Ahmad, Worldcall Technical Manager.

Click here to read about the network details.

Click here to contact us if you are interested in doing a similar deployment.
EDITOR'S VOICE... OVER IP

In our deployment story for this issue, we learn how to deliver TDM over a PSN such as IP and Ethernet. The largest private telecom in Pakistan found that a E1/wireless backhaul combination was the best way to reach a customer. This is an interesting issue since carriers are still maintaining expensive TDM infrastructure while cheaper IP networks are becoming the standard. We would like to hear how you (or your customer) are managing to marry these two without having to change end user equipment.

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Sincerely,
Vani Karunanethy
simplyFi Editor, smartBridges Press
NEWS

smartBridges Rolls Out Wi-Fi Antennas Operating in Multiple License Free Bands

Singapore, July 18, 2006

Multi-band antennas can operate in multiple frequencies in the 2.4 GHz and 5.x GHz saving cost for wireless service providers and providing better interference mitigation

smartBridges, a leading provider of standards-based outdoor fixed wireless networking equipment, has rolled out an entire series of antennas which can operate in several license free bands, saving service providers from having to buy and deploy several different antennas for their wireless networks. The unique multi-band antennas can operate in both the 2.4 GHz and 5.x GHz license free frequency bands.

By having just one antenna transmitting in multiple frequencies, service providers stand to save not just on equipment costs, but also on rental costs for the premium real estate space on the tower. With few such antennas offering multi-band capability available (and those being very expensive), the smartBridges antennas are expected to fill a high demand niche in the market.


smartBridges produces an industry-first multi-band antenna which seamlessly bonds the 2.4 GHz and 5.x GHz bands to achieve 27 non overlapping channels

Click here to read the entire press release.

PARTNER DEVELOPMENT

Moonblink Communications signs as smartBridges Distributor

Moonblink Communications, a Value Added Distributor of wireless broadband solutions, has joined smartBridges Channel Partner Program to distribute the Nexus Platform in the American market. Based in Santa Clara, California, Moonblink specializes in Wi-Fi, WiMax and Wireless Backhaul systems for Government, Service Providers, Education and Enterprise markets. Besides North Americas, they also serve key countries in South America.

The new partnership will target specific markets. Farooq Raza, smartBridges Sales Director for North America, said, "Moonblink has an established reputation and market share especially when it comes to providing comprehensive solutions for the enterprise, government and education sectors. We expect the partnership to forward smartBridges share of these potential customers."

Added Darrell Alfaro, CEO of Moonblink, "smartBridges is a leader in producing rugged outdoor Wi-Fi solutions in the unlicensed bands. Their award winning Nexus Platform will complete the range of solutions Moonblink currently offers its customers by including field proven wireless broadband. We are very excited to join with smartBridges in their quest of unwiring our world™."

About Moonblink Inc.

Moonblink Inc., dba Moonblink Communications, is a value-added distributor providing Wi-Fi, WiMAX, voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), license-free and licensed broadband wireless products and services to resellers and partners throughout the Americas. Moonblink Communications has emerged as a leader in wireless networking equipment distribution with highly qualified sales, engineering and technical support personnel. For more information, please visit www.moonblink.com or contact:

Moonblink Communications
Tel: 1-877-623-5223 or 1-408-850-1143
Email: sales@moonblink.com

SUPPORT CORNER

smartBridges Releases New Firmware for airPoint Nexus PRO TOTAL (sB3212) and airClient Nexus PRO TOTAL (sB3412)

smartBridges is excited to release new firmware for airPoint Nexus PRO TOTAL (sB3212), version 1.02.02 and airClient Nexus PRO TOTAL (sB3412), version 1.02.02 (for units currently running on v1.00.00; for units currently running on v1.00.00_R6 the firmware version is 1.02.04). Based on customers’ feedback and requirements, the new firmware has a number of new features that aid in network management.

The airPoint Nexus PRO TOTAL firmware version 1.02.00 supports DFS which allows the device to dynamically select the best channel in the domain to avoid interference and thereby eliminating the need for the user to intervene when interference occurs.

In addition to DFS, the beta version of the Sputnik Agent has been included. The Sputnik Agent is responsible for communicating with the Sputnik Control Center™. The Sputnik Control Center software is an affordable, centralized subscriber management system which enables service providers to remotely configure access points, create custom captive portal pages, set network policies, and generate reports. For more information on this, visit Sputnik.

Other major enhancements include support for OFCOM channels and having the ETH A LED blink during the entire boot-up sequence to signify that power is on.

The airClient Nexus PRO Total sB3412 firmware version 1.02.02 (and version 1.02.04) supports Port Forwarding and DNS Propagation in NAT Mode. With Port Forwarding enabled, client devices with NAT gateway configured will allow you to even host websites in a private network. While with DHCP enabled on the wireless interface, DNS propagation will allow the client computers to receive the DNS address directly from the Internet service provider.

Other major new features include:

  1. Robust flash protection in place to prevent flash corruption
  2. Allows user to add static routes in NAT/Bridge mode
  3. Allows user to disable/enable RIP in Router mode
  4. Improves radio outage detection and recovery time

Click here for more information on the fixes and features and to download the new firmware for airPoint Nexus PRO TOTAL and here for airClient Nexus PRO TOTAL.

SUPPORT - smartTips

Monitoring smartBridges Nexus Radios using MRTG

You can now learn how to install and configure MRTG to monitor smartBridges Nexus products. The Multi-Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) is a freely available tool which is commonly used for monitoring the bandwidth utilization, traffic statistics and RSSI. MRTG creates visual representation of the traffic seen during the last 7 days, 5 weeks and 12 months. The graphs are embedded into web pages which can be viewed from any web browser, allowing for easy remote manageability.

The simple MRTG application notes helps you to install and configure MRTG for Nexus point-to-point links and does not require any prior knowledge of MRTG. We are improving this documentation with more visual graphics in an upcoming version. Please send your feedback to support@smartbridges.com.

Click here to download the MRTG application notes.

Click here to view other smartTips.
PROMOTIONS

smartBridges' Nexus Starter Kit Promotion

In line with the recent launch for the Nexus PRO series coupled with the growing demand to provide end-to-end wireless connectivity, smartBridges introduces the Nexus Starter Kit (NSK). The NSK contains all the equipment needed for a quick deployment of a complete wireless broadband network.

The Intelligent Nexus platform focuses on providing high data throughput over long distances for Near Line Of Sight applications. The Nexus Platform is used to deploy carrier class Wireless Wide Area Networks (WWAN). Out-of-the-box installation and a common user interface makes integration into the network simple and easy.

The Nexus Starter Kit comprises:

Note: The NSK is only valid for the Nexus series of products.

For more information on the Nexus starter kit, please contact your distributor.

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