Once purely Internet Service Providers have nowadays shifted towards providing a variety of bundled services. Market once been occupied by pure ISPs is being gradually overtaken by telecom operators, as incumbent infrastructure has allowed them to enter the market fairly quickly. However, with the abundance of new services, new application and service platforms that today’s set-top boxes and ASPs provide, give a chance to rapidly responding WISP to compete successfully with telcos.
Fast roll-out, decrease in infrastructure costs and bandwidth is important to acquire and maintain customers. Control over its own network, which however has to be cost-efficient and compatible with end market requirements, is vital and point to point microwave provides the most viable solution. Such infrastructure can be built on top of point to point microwave radios, where last mile or backhaul is designed around high capacity wireless links. It is also important to have an ability to upgrade the equipment while on field, on FPGA platform used for PHY layer as well as management and control software can be updated once new releases are available, with minor additional cost to WISP.
Key benefits
Modesat hybrid and all-IP radio modems provide the following benefits:
