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 DragonWave delivers high-capacity packet microwave solutions for voice, video and data networks. Their licensed and license exempt point-to-point solutions, enable service providers, government agencies, enterprises, healthcare facilities, educational institutions and other organizations to meet their increasing bandwidth requirements rapidly and at the lowest total cost of ownership.
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Application Spotlight
Public Safety
 Whether protecting our cities, guarding our borders or monitoring critical infrastructure, public safety agencies provide the essential services that we all depend on. Despite ever increasing demands, these organizations are faced with difficult budget constraints. Rather than compromising their level of service, many agencies are investing in new communications technologies to improve their efficiency, increase coverage and improve the speed of critical decision making.
DragonWave has extensive experience building advanced packet microwave networks for critical communications in all areas of public safety including first responders (police, fire and medical), video surveillance, sensor networks, ports, utilities, and border security.
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Featured Case Studies
New Jersey Turnpike Authority
Improving the Safety and Efficiency of Critical Toll Roads with DragonWave’s Packet Microwave for Public Safety
The NJTA’s mission is to ensure “the safe, efficient movement of people and goods” across their vast highway system. To meet this challenge, the NJTA relies on several public safety systems to monitor traffic conditions, deliver information to drivers and respond to any emergencies rapidly by relaying critical information to first responders... [Continue Reading (PDF)]
Winnebago County, Illinois
Connecting Public Safety Facilities with Packet Microwave to Deliver Higher Capacity and Improved Reliability at a Lower Cost
Winnebago County operates a communications backbone network interconnecting several critical government and public safety facilities, including a 911 contact center, justice center, county courthouse, and county health department. An aging network infrastructure, comprised of unlicensed microwave and costly leased lines, was not providing the reliability or scalability needed to support the county’s increasingly bandwidth intensive video and internet connectivity applications. With plans to upgrade additional facilities with the latest public safety infrastructure and applications, Winnebago County was in need of a significant overhaul to their transport network... [Continue Reading (PDF)]
Honolulu Board of Water Supply
DragonWave Packet Microwave Solutions Helping to Ensure Safe and Dependable Water Delivery for Oahu Residents
Like many other public safety organizations, the BWS had been adopting new technologies to safeguard its critical infrastructure — including their potentially vulnerable water storage and transportation facilities.
After completing a significant upgrade to high definition surveillance cameras across their many sites, the BWS was in need of a high capacity transport network to handle the extra data traffic generated by these IP-based cameras. Additionally, the board was dealing with increased capacity requirements for other key operations, including: inter-facility links, internet connectivity, field communications, SCADA systems, SAN mirroring and disaster recovery... [Continue Reading (PDF)]
Featured Products
Horizon Compact+ Zero-Footprint Packet Microwave
 This high capacity packet microwave system delivers big performance in a small package. Because the radio and modem are integrated into a single highly compact outdoor unit, Horizon Compact+ is a zero footprint solution – eliminating rack congestion and minimizing collocation space. Equipped with DragonWave’s Bandwidth Accelerator technology, the Horizon Compact+ achieves the highest degree of spectral efficiency, delivering more capacity per channel than any other all-outdoor microwave system.
Solution Highlights
- Zero footprint, fully integrated all-outdoor unit.
- 1 to 2 Gbps capacity with DragonWave’s Bandwidth Accelerator.
- Service Aware Hitless Automatic Adaptive Modulation (HAAM).
- Network synchronization with SyncE and 1588v2.
- Pay-as-you-grow with automatic remote scalability.
- Advanced security with integrated 256-bit AES encryption.
- Comprehensive Ethernet OAM support (802.3ah, 802.1ag, Y.1731).
- Advanced QoS support with 8 levels of prioritization.
- Comprehensive management and provisioning with DragonVision NMS.
- Lowest total cost of ownership solution.
Key Applications
Mobile Backhaul | Leased Line Replacement
Last Mile Fiber Extension | Private and Enterprise Networks
Horizon Quantum
 Delivering 2 to 4 Gbps, Horizon Quantum is the next generation in packet microwave technology – a step change in capacity, nodal intelligence, spectral efficiency and operational simplicity; all while occupying only half a rack unit and consuming the lowest power per bit of any solution today. As a result, operators can stay thin in the air and in the rack as they launch new IP-based services. Ultra-low latency, hitless AAM and support for SynchE and XPIC mean that Quantum is optimized for tomorrow’s high capacity networks. With 8 GigE ports and integrated Ethernet switching, Horizon Quantum can provide aggregation and restoration in a single unit. As the next evolution of DragonWave’s split-mount radio, Quantum offers a seamless upgrade path for existing Duo and AirPair deployments.
 Horizon Compact
The DragonWave Horizon Compact is a high-capacity, packet microwave system with improved efficiency and simplified operations. Because the radio and modem are integrated into a single outdoor unit, Horizon Compact is a zero footprint solution – eliminating rack congestion and minimizing collocation space. Horizon Compact’s 800 Mbps capacity, hitless Automatic Adaptive  Modulation (AAM), and ring/mesh support mean maximum performance and throughput. Add in simple installation and operation, as well as sophisticated remote management and troubleshooting, and you gain significant lifecycle cost savings. This highly integrated, carrier-grade packet microwave solution operates in licensed or unlicensed spectrum from 6-38 GHz.
For details on products to meet your specific need, contact TESSCO at 888-256-9220 or by email.
DragonWave Applications
WiMAX Backhaul
DragonWave offers a high-capacity, carrier-grade, integrated packet solution perfectly suited to WiMAX Ethernet services. DragonWave Horizon products enable rapid network expansion using either licensed or unlicensed spectrum, and deliver remote scalability from 10 Mbps up to 4 Gbps per link.
LTE-Optimized Backhaul
Engineered for the requirements of tomorrow’s networks, DragonWave’s Horizon solutions respond to the needs of LTE service providers with sub 0.1 ms latency, native Ethernet, wire speeds up to 4 Gbps and convergence of existing TDM traffic.
Leased Line Replacement
For many businesses, the only option for last mile access is an aging copper infrastructure with long MTTR. Horizon can replace leased services and eliminate expensive, recurring telecom costs. At the same time, businesses can improve availability and scale their capacity for new services over an IP network.
Last Mile Fiber Extension
Horizon delivers a superior method of rapidly extending high-speed IP services from locations already in the service provider’s network. DragonWave products are ideal for network hardening and disaster recovery, as well as applications that require both legacy TDM services and carrier-grade, high-capacity native Ethernet.
Private and Enterprise Networks
Municipalities, healthcare facilities, schools, government institutions and other organizations can build carrier-grade private networks, achieving payback within the first year. DragonWave’s Horizon software-scalable GigE wireless mesh connectivity means no capacity constraints, and because it is licensed, there is no interference.
Network Evolution
Enable your existing network to carry emerging IP applications and services. DragonWave’s converged IP backbone offers a simple solution for evolving to an IP-optimized network while seamlessly carrying legacy TDM services.
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