The next generation of wireless communications beyond today’s digital PCS technologies.

Harris Communications has conducted site surveys throughout the United States.  The purpose of a site survey is to determine what type of solution and design will work best for a specific facility.  In most cases it is not feasible to provide an accurate estimate based on square footage of a facility alone.  There are quite a few variables that structures can contribute to each project.  The best way to get an accurate and efficient solution is to schedule a site survey prior to commissioning a design.

Bandwidth has several related meanings, for our purposes in the wireless industry there are two primary definitions:

Bandwidth (computer)digital bandwidth: a rate of data transfer, throughput or bit rate, measured in bits per second (bps).

Bandwidth (signal processing) or analog bandwidth, frequency bandwidth or radio bandwidth: a measure of the width of a range of frequencies, measured in hertz.

Bandwidth is a measure of available or consumed data communication resources.  As technology grows and our desire for seamless connectivity grows, bandwidth use increases as well.

This application is a cost-effective means of connecting multiple remote locations back to a central location to alleviate the need for expensive T1 or Fiber installations.

It is more and more common for first-responders, (Police/Fire/EMS), to demand reliable ubiquitous radio coverage to ensure the safety of the public, as well as their own.  In many instances poor in-building radio coverage has a negative impact on first responders ability to communicate effectively in a crisis situation.  The prevailing thought today is that “Mission-critical” coverage can no longer end at the hospital doorway, basement, or stairwell. 

This is a data link protocol commonly used to establish a direct connection between two networking nodes.  It can provide connection authentication, transmission encryption privacy and compression.  Point to Point Connectivity is wireless can allows for the elimination of leased T-1 lines or redundancy of existing T-1 lines.  This solution is available encrypted for sensitive data as well as unencrypted and has a variety of effective applications.

In a telecommunications network the backhaul portion of the network comprises the intermediate links between the backbone, of the network and the small subnetworks at the “edge” of the entire hierarchical network.  An example would be: cell phones communicating with a single cell tower constitute a local subnetwork, the connection between the cell tower and the rest of the world begins with a backhaul link to the core of the telecommunications network.

Visualizing the entire hierarchical network as a human skeleton, the core network would be the spine, the backhaul links would be the limbs, the edge networks would be the hands and feet, and the individual links within those edge networks would be the fingers and toes.

The objective in this type of solutions is to transmit data from several distribution/access points to one centralized point of presences.  This technology offers great benefit to enterprise, particularly campus style environments such as hospitals and universities.  Harris Communications offers both licensed and unlicensed point to point and multi point solutions.