"In addition, InnerWireless' distributed antenna system provides more even coverage, allowing for greater capacity through layering of channels. Besides being a great way to distribute signals, it also solves a lot of other inherent problems, especially for VoWLAN."
Dave Heckaman, Regional IT Director,
Mandarin Oriental New York
"The system fit within our strategy to bring in all wireless signals over a single system. So now we can proactively segregate and manage this signal rather than react to it."
Nick Christiano, Vice President and CIO,
HealthQuest.
Harnessing the RF spectrum is just the beginning. With InnerWireless, customers can make sure that their WWAN and WLAN capacity matches their user requirements, in addition to supporting current and emerging wide area protocols for voice and data.
Carrier Flexibility
Horizon supports current and emerging WWAN protocols for both voice and data, and InnerWireless works with each carrier to ensure the carrier network donor equipment provides adequate capacity for each building. Horizon uses simple carrier connectivity architectures that have been approved by all major carriers. Modular carrier-grade RF/Fiber optic connectivity modules cover all WWAN frequencies and are seamlessly scalable to meet both frequency and capacity needs. A single Horizon system can provide support for up to eight carriers.
More Wi-Fi Capacity
InnerWireless implements Wi-Fi using an innovative, next-generation architecture known as Layered WLAN. Utilizing advanced signal filtering, Horizon provides pervasive coverage and enables a coverage area to be served by multiple access points and multiple managed traffic channels.
InnerWireless can groom all Wi-Fi traffic across the multiple channels and ensure that advanced application requirements are met or exceeded. By dedicating separate WLAN channels to life-critical, mission-critical and casual applications, Layered WLAN eliminates competition that naturally occurs when using a single access point as a shared resource for all wireless traffic. This is a distinct advantage when compared to traditional deployments.
Overall, Horizon layered WLAN provides the following advantages:
- Uniform channel planning
- Guaranteed signal-level coverage
- Traffic grooming to handle increased number of clients and user clustering
- Inherent redundancy
- Simplified operations via physically collocated and secured access points
In fact, these advantages can significantly enhance network performance by two-to three-fold while simplifying the management of 802.11 b/g, a, and n.
Testing of Horizon layered WLAN, conducted by independent research firm Novarum, has determined:
- Horizon allowed organization of client traffic into different isolated layers, and this led to better performance.
- Horizon allowed the delivery of more than double the data capacity of the discrete microcellular system in our tests.
- Horizon exhibited lower interference between APs in the same system than the microcellular system.
- The clients on Horizon exhibited more uniform and predictable performance.
- On all of the voice tests, the clients on Horizon had much lower jitter and slightly better MOS scores.
- Horizon did not compromise the basic functionality of the Wireless LAN system. All of the expected features worked well on the L-DAS.
- Roaming, voice support, QoS mechanisms and 802.11a/b/g and 802.11n (with 20 or 40 MHz channels) worked on Horizon with the same clients and software as the discrete microcellular system.
WWAN or WLAN, voice or data, InnerWireless can meet your needs as traffic grows or as applications are added – without any disruption or compromised network performance.
|
