INDUSTRY WATCH
ANY TECHNOLOGICAL
PLATFORM . . . NEEDS TO
ADDRESS EVER CHANGING
REQUIREMENTS AS
NEW SERVICES AND
APPLICATIONS ARE ADDED.
T
echnology changes quickly
in the telecommunications
sector with requirements
transformed as new services
on applications are added. There is
general consensus that the telecoms
market has to fundamentally restructure
in order to deliver a world of distributed
computing services. Here we ask
Kamal Mokrani, Global Vice President,
InfiNet Wireless, questions about
recent and future developments in the
telecommunications industry.
What are the challenges
operators are facing in the
telecoms market?
Service providers of all types are going
through an evolution phase from one
technological platform to another, but
at the same time are often experiencing
very difficult times as competitors are
springing up everywhere and revenues
are dwindling.
This is common with almost all operators
across the world. Of course, challenges
faced by one operator in a specific region
or country can vary from those of an
operator elsewhere, but they have some
common challenges which they must
tackle if they want to grow or in some
instances, just stay afloat.
The most common challenges I have
personally come across include fierce
and/or unfair competition, ARPU
going down all the time, price war,
restrictions on capital and/or operational
expenditure, bad debts, regulatory
hurdles, customer churn, etc.
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How does the company
enable providers to meet
their customers’ needs
for bandwidth, coverage
and mobility?
Telco operators and WISPs are one of our
most strategic target markets. In fact,
up until this year, close to 70% of our
revenue came from this market.
We offer three core solutions for this
market to help these service providers
meet the demands of their customers:
• The InfiLINK 2x2 is our MIMO Point-
to-Point (PTP) high-performance
broadband wireless family for an
all IP-based infrastructure. This
family of solutions provides greater
effective throughput (up to 500Mb/s
in a 40Mhz channel) and increased
link availability, all with a rich set of
best-in-class features and benefits.
The InfiLINK 2x2 family also provides
unrivalled spectral efficiency, low
latency and long-range transmissions
over distances in excess of 80 km
without repeaters.
• Our latest solution, the InfiLINK
XG 1000, is an addition to our PTP
product portfolio. Designed specifically
to meet the backhauling needs of
wireless internet service providers
(WISPs), 4G/5G mobile operators and
digital oilfields, the InfiLINK XG 1000
is able of delivering throughputs of up
to 1 Gigabit per second over the air in
5 GHz license-free frequency bands,
effectively doubling the capacity of
InfiNet’s previous highest performing
product, the InfiLINK XG.
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