Siklu, a world leader in millimeter wave (mmWave) solutions for Digital City and Gigabit Wireless Access (GWA), introduced the MultiHaul™ TG small Terminal Unit (TU) “T260”. The T260 is designed for faster and unobtrusive installation on the exteriors of homes, apartment buildings or street “furniture” such as streetlights.
Siklu has incorporated two design features that reduce the installation time for this Terminal Unit from hours to less than 30 minutes. First, a T260 within 400m range of the network is merely pointed in the general direction of the antenna and it will connect automatically. And second, Siklu has eliminated the need to ground the T260 electrically. These features save significant time to the installer who can “point and move” to the next installation.
The T260 is also temperature and environmentally hardened and has been certified to the highest industry standards – IP67 and NEMA4. All in all, the addition of the T260 gives Siklu the most versatile Terragraph-certified portfolio, with the widest range of terminal units for a variety of needs and applications, such as long-range and medium-range multiport and Gigabit-speed medium-reach connectivity.
With these features, the T260 will make it easier to provide a variety of Gigabit-speed wireless services, true broadband Internet, Wi-Fi hotspot backhaul and various Smart City applications, such as security and traffic monitoring.
Siklu’s current MultiHaul™ TG family represents its third generation of Terragraph-compliant, point- to-multipoint 60GHz products and enables a fully-meshed network topology that reduces capital expenditure and operating costs for operators and offers several performance benefits.
For instance, a network of T260 TUs connected to Siklu N36x distribution nodes creates a “self-healing” mesh topology featuring built-in redundant paths for traffic rerouting if an outage occurs in a given link. And by virtue of advanced scheduling algorithms and features such as narrow beam widths, the mesh offers maximum immunity to interference and bi-directional data rates between nodes are sustained as the network grows in size.