Success stories and live HaulPass links

Kingston Technology is the world's largest independent manufacturer of memory products. With global headquarters located in a six-building campus in Fountain Valley, California, Kingston employs more than 3,000 people worldwide. Kingston has deployed multiple HaulPass millimeter wave wireless radios for disaster recovery and expansion of its campus-wide Ethernet network.

Southern California is known for both seismic activity and extreme weather, so establishing a prudent disaster recovery strategy is an important business consideration for the company. Seasonal heavy rains and flooding are facts of life in Southern California, so Kingston relies on the HaulPass V60s built-in Intelligent Automatic Gain Control technology. This technology maintains network throughput even under the harshest environmental conditions. Unlike other V-Band vendors who adjust to changing environmental conditions by reducing valuable bandwidth, HaulPass V60s links maintain gigabit throughput speeds regardless of extreme weather conditions.

“We installed our second HaulPass link when we leased a new building and needed to link it to our high-speed campus network,” said Flores. “Rather than having to dig trenches and install fiber — or go through the ongoing expense of leasing a fiber-optic circuit from the phone company — we opted to go with a second license-free HaulPass link to connect the new building.” Installing, aligning and configuring the V60s links was a straightforward process: CAT5e cable to the rooftop, pole-mounted units, and the supplied scopes for alignment.

Skycom1 is a Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) offering fast, reliable, broadband wireless Internet access in the greater New Orleans area. The company specializes in high-speed wireless services for commercial buildings, apartment complexes, hotels, and other businesses. Skycom1 has deployed multiple HaulPass V60s millimeter wave V-Band radio links for building-to-building broadband connectivity.

Extreme weather is a fact of life in New Orleans, particularly when it comes to heavy rainfall. Millimeter wave transmissions can be adversely affected by rain, a concept known as rain fade. Skycom1's HaulPass V60s links were recently exposed to torrential downpours when over 20 inches of rain fell in just three days. At the peak of the violent storm, rain totals exceeded two inches per hour.

HaulPass V60s radios incorporate advanced technology known as Intelligent Automatic Gain Control. With this superior approach, network throughput is maintained even under the harshest environmental conditions.

Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Fiber Internet Center LLC provides high-speed, carrier-grade fiber connectivity solutions exclusively for business customers. Increasingly, the company has encountered business prospects where the closest fiber hub site or “lit building” was just a few hundred meters away from the required business location.

The cost to run additional fiber from an existing fiber hub site to a new customer building can often exceed $100 per foot for underground installations. “The effort and related costs to run a fiber extension includes much more than just the cost of the fiber cable,” said Bob Evans, Founder and CTO of Fiber Internet Center. “Running a fiber extension includes a myriad of costs, including engineering, permits, trench digging, filler removal, running the fiber, and then refilling the trenches.” In addition, there are situations where running a fiber extension is simply not possible, due to right-of-way issues or the need to cross highways, rivers, or other barriers.

Thanks to HaulPass V-Band connectivity, Fiber Internet Center has been able to deploy several new wireless rooftop-to-rooftop fiber extensions for its business customers. Support of full-duplex FDD operation means customers can transmit and receive simultaneously at full GigE speeds.

The Thomas R. Potocki Conference Center in the City of Mission Viejo, California, was originally designed as a training center for the U.S. soccer team during the 1994 World Cup. Located in the middle of Oso Viejo Community Park with adjacent soccer fields, the building was converted by the city to a community center after the World Cup was completed. Today it serves the city as a youth activity and conference center.

The one thing lacking at the facility was broadband Internet access. This was particularly a problem for youth counselors from Outta Bounds Events Inc. who leased the facility, conducting after-school programs and computer classes that required broadband access — to the point of using mobile phones as hot spots for the kids in the programs.

That all changed when Vubiq deployed a HaulPass V60s millimeter wave wireless link to connect the conference center to the central data center at Mission Viejo City Hall, located about 600 meters away. The city had previously investigated alternatives, but the remote location within the park and surrounding soccer fields would have required costly, disruptive trenching and fiber optic cable.

Headquartered in Miami, Florida, Snappy Internet & Telecom is a web hosting and wireless internet service provider (WISP) offering fiber, fixed wireless and broadband wireless access to its business clients throughout the United States. Snappy installed a pair of HaulPass V10g low-latency millimeter wave radios — the first and only 10 Gbps V-Band wireless link in the industry — to provide multi-gig wireless connectivity to one of its customers. The link spans a building-to-building distance of 290 meters.

Housed in a compact enclosure that's easy to deploy, the HaulPass V10g radio utilizes the license-free V-Band spectrum to cost-effectively meet the ever-expanding needs of today's bandwidth-hungry networks. It provides 2.2 GHz channel bandwidth, advanced intelligence, and comprehensive Ethernet switching functionality. Integrated low-latency forward error correction assures data transmission reliability.

Vubiq Networks has partnered with California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona) to educate students about advanced millimeter wave wireless technology and to foster research and development into extremely high frequency (EHF) telecommunications applications. Vubiq has donated a pair of HaulPass E10g low-latency 10 Gbps radios to the university.

The innovative HaulPass E10g radios communicate over the lightly licensed 80 GHz E-Band spectrum. The wireless link connects Cal Poly Pomona's main campus to the university's Lanterman Campus South, traversing 2.3 km.

Cal Poly Pomona and Ganpat University (GUNI) in India have issued a memorandum of understanding, recognizing that universities need to operate in a global environment of cooperation in the development of educational and technology initiatives for engineering students, faculties and R&D.

Vubiq Networks has partnered with Ganpat University (GUNI) to educate students about innovative millimeter wave wireless technology and foster research and development into extremely high frequency (EHF) telecommunications applications. Vubiq has donated a pair of HaulPass V10g low-latency millimeter wave radios — the first and only 10 Gbps V-Band wireless link in the industry — to the university.

Located in North Gujarat in western India, Ganpat University is one of the most respected not-for-profit universities in the country. GUNI has successfully implemented a strong industry-academia linked higher education model and empowered its students through hands-on learning, exposure to industry, and enhanced employability.

GUNI is the only academic institution in India to have been issued an experimental license for testing millimeter wave technology from the Department of Telecommunication of the Government of India. GUNI has also been invited to contribute to the policy framing of the Indian Prime Minister's initiative PM WANI (Wi-Fi Access Network Interface).

To test the limits of the E-Band millimeter wave communications spectrum under various weather and environmental conditions, Vubiq Networks has installed a 3 kilometer (1.9 mile) wireless link in Southern California from the San Juan Capistrano Hills to the Dana Point Harbor. The test link consists of a pair of HaulPass E10g 10 Gbps radios communicating over the 80 GHz E-Band spectrum. To further test the performance and reliability of the link, the line-of-sight path purposely passes through a grove of tall eucalyptus trees.

A second wireless link using the V-Band is daisy chained to the E10g link and delivers 10 Gbps connectivity across the harbor to the restaurant row. The second link consists of a pair of HaulPass V10g radios.

One of the biggest challenges for harbors all across the country involves fiber access and dedicated high-bandwidth backhaul to support 5G-like public internet access. This Vubiq Networks test installation demonstrates the ability to bring high-bandwidth connections to service harbor-front restaurants, hotels, shops and free public Wi-Fi.