COUNTRY FOCUS: LEVANT
Jubran El Ayan, RF Manager at Connect
The most
noticeable
benefit of
the InfiNet
solution,
has been the
reliability of
the network.
Can you give us the time scales
behind the project and the
cost-factor involved for the
implementation and ongoing
support? 2x2 LITE (a cost-effective, medium
capacity PTP wireless product
range) to provide larger enterprise
customers with dedicated high
capacity connectivity.
We decided to upgrade our wireless
infrastructure about two years
ago and after about four months
of researching and consulting
with our sister company, Mada in
Kuwait, we decided to do a Proof
Of Concept (POC) with InfiNet’s
InfiLINK 2x2 PRO portfolio,
InfiNet’s high performance, Point-
to-Point wireless solutions. For a number of our most critical
and strategic locations, we opted
to deploy the InfiLINK XG, a recent
addition to the InfiNet product
family, which is capable of reaching
a peak net throughput of 500 Mbps
in 40 MHz of spectrum and more
than 130 Mbps in only 10 MHz.
The POC took about two months
and not only were the units easy
to install, they also performed
extremely well from the start.
This gave our technical team the
confidence to install 70 units,
almost immediately after the POC
as part of the backhauling backbone
of the company. In parallel, we also
deployed 30 units of the InfiLINK
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Once the complete backbone of
the network was in place, we then
started to deploy the InfiMAN 2x2,
InfiNet’s range of wireless Point-to-
Multipoint (PTMP) solutions, mainly
to connect our corporate customers
and premium residential customers
with high bandwidth needs. Working
directly with the InfiNet team, we
deployed in excess of 30 base stations
and 250 subscriber terminals across
Lebanon in just a few months.
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