INDUSTRY WATCH
SERVICE PROVIDERS OF ALL
TYPES ARE GOING THROUGH
AN EVOLUTION PHASE.
Kamal Mokrani, Global Vice President,
InfiNet Wireless
• The InfiMAN 2x2 family, our flagship
Point-to-Multipoint (PTMP) range of
solutions, offers different connectivity
options for a wide variety of applications
(e.g. for LAN extensions, video-
surveillance and remote monitoring,
Internet access, etc.). It comprises of
a number of innovative high-speed IP
base stations and subscriber terminals
(CPEs), with base stations providing high
sector capacity, field-upgradeable from
40 to 240 Mb/s and using the same or
less amount of valuable radio spectrum
than traditional point-to-multipoint
wireless systems.
All our above solutions operate in both LOS
(line-of-sight) and nLOS (near-line-of-sight)
environments, across both licensed and
unlicensed frequency bands, from 2.0 GHz
to 6.4 GHz.
How strong is the demand
for scalable systems?
Any technological platform, whether
deployed by a telecoms operator or a
corporation of any size, needs to address
ever changing requirements as new services
and applications are added in the future.
Over the past few years, we have seen a
much stronger emphasis from our customers
for truly scalable and redundant wireless
solutions, especially from those end-users
who need to quickly replace their obsolete
WiMax infrastructures with more modern and
manageable platforms. This is certainly the
case in the Africa and Latin American regions.
How do you ensure your
systems work in remote areas
and harsh environments?
With over 500,000 deployments from
the plains of Siberia to the deserts of the
Sahara, InfiNet Wireless is very accustomed
to working in remote areas and harsh and
rugged environments. Our completely sealed
units offer significant advantages over other
technologies, having been designed from
the onset to withstand extreme temperature
ranges and operating climatic conditions.
Since our inception, we have learned to
only use components, enclosures and
antennas to cater for all environmental
conditions, as evidenced by our extensive
R&D test procedures aimed at meeting
the exacting requirements of the toughest
environments, with temperature ranges
from –60 to +60 degrees Celsius. This is
further evidenced by our installed customer
base which includes the defence sector (e.g.
naval, military ground communications),
the energy sector (e.g. oil and gas, wind
energy, power generation) and the
transportation sector.
COMPETITORS
ARE SPRINGING UP
EVERYWHERE AND
REVENUES ARE DWINDLING.
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Knowing that getting our wireless units
powered up in a remote location is always a
challenge, we have consequently designed
our units bearing in mind this limitation.
Typically, our base stations only consume
12W and our remote subscriber units less
than 7W, thus significantly reducing OPEX-
associated costs for any service provider
relying on our solutions.
What changes can we expect
to see in the telecoms market
this year?
There is general consensus that the telecoms
market has to fundamentally restructure
in order to deliver a world of distributed
computing services. Wherever we live and
work, our lives will need to be re-organised
around the assumed existence of always-
available and relevant information, and of
course affordable means to have access
to it. This translates into the emergence of
new technologies and yet more complex
higher-order telecoms infrastructures, as well
as whole new applications to connect what
was simply unconnected before. There is
no doubt that IOT, VR, AR and cloud-based
technological platforms are playing, and
will continue to do so for a very long time
to come, a more important role than ever
before for companies of all sizes.
At InfiNet Wireless, we expect that in
the next three to five years, the telecoms
market will become even more diversified.
There are already a number of alternative
technologies available that are conducive
for fixed wireless broadband, one of which
is 4G/LTE. The 5G initiative undertaken
by all the key players in our industry will
definitely become THE infrastructure model
to be deployed by all operators in the
not-too-distant future. Our current wireless
technologies already enable devices of all
types to seamlessly communicate with each
other, thus creating true digital platforms of
the future. n
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