NAVIGATOR is a licensed microwave system supporting the 6-42GHz frequency bands, and offering performance and features far exceeding that of microwave radios manufactured using off-the-shelf chipsets. Built on the company’s proprietary custom ASICs, NAVIGATOR provides network operators with unprecedented flexibility to support multiple configurations and applications, optimize networks for the highest capacity and range, upgrade legacy networks, and speed up deployments, while minimizing both upfront investment costs and the ongoing costs to maintain and service networks.

NAVIGATOR has been designed from the ground up to deliver performance and features unavailable in any microwave radio until now, to both meet critical backhaul requirements and reduce costs. These include the ability to combine dual subcarriers in each transceiver to transport up to 2.75Gbps in the single transceiver radio and 5.5Gbps in the dual transceiver radio; modulations up to 4096QAM with ultra-wide channel bandwidths up to 112MHz (ETSI) and 160MHz (ANSI) to maximize capacity and range; customer-replaceable diplexers to minimize product lead times and inventory stocking costs; a dual 10GbE interface that enables a simple, single fiber run to the radio; and an adaptable antenna interface that allows operators to upgrade legacy networks with minimum investment and disruption.

NAVIGATOR DT can achieve capacities up to 3Gbps per radio using a single carrier per transceiver and 5.5Gbps using dual sub-carriers per transceiver, without requiring any additional equipment. NAVIGATOR DT also includes XPIC and MIMO frequency re-use technologies to double capacity using a single licensed channel. XPIC and 2+0 operations are supported using just a single radio. Both the NAVIGATOR ST and NAVIGATOR DT feature customer-replaceable diplexers that easily and inexpensively convert to different sub-bands, eliminating the costly need to spare radios in specific sub-bands.

Features

• Up to 5.5Gbps per radio using quad sub-carriers without compression
• Dual transceivers with each transceiver supporting single carrier or dual sub-carrier operation to efficiently increase capacity without adding any more equipment
• QPSK to 4096QAM
• Ultra-wide bandwidth operation to 160MHz ANSI and 112MHz ETSI
• 2x (1+0), 1+1 HSB, 2+0, 2+2 HSB, and 4+0 operation
• XPIC supported using a single dual transceiver radio
• LOS 4x4 MIMO to quadruple capacity and 2x2 MIMO to double capacity using only a single license
• Space Diversity and Frequency Diversity are available
• Built-in Advanced Digital Pre-Distortion to drive higher transmission performance
• Customer replaceable diplexers to ease operational logistics and improve system flexibility
• Built-in OMT or coupler to combine carriers from each transceiver
• Different frequencies supported in single dual carrier radio (e.g. 6GHz and 11GHz)
• Adaptable antenna interface supports third-party antennas to ease migration and upgrade
• Header and payload compression to further increase capacity
• 2 x 10GbE Ethernet interfaces (optional)
• 2 x CPRI interfaces (optional)
• SyncE and IEEE1588v2
• AES256 encryption
• No-touch WiFi maintenance interface (optional)
• GPS antenna (optional)
• Time-based feature licensing is available