With SIAE’s Carrier-Grade solutions, downtime and intermittent bandwidth will be a thing of the past. SIAE’s range features full outdoor IP radios that offer guaranteed throughput and high uptime availability. Their field-proven robust solutions will ensure that you have an interference-free link you can rely on.
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Increase your wireless network capacity with SIAE Microelettronica’s microwave network solutions, distributed in Southern Africa by MiRO
Who is SIAE and what are their products used for?
SIAE MICROELETTRONICA is a leading developer and manufacturer of innovative and best performing microwave network solutions. They are well known to the market for their full-outdoor, full IP, next-generation Alfoplus and Alfoplus2 series of carrier-grade microwave outdoor unit (ODU) radios. These radios provide high reliability and uptime with throughput capacities of up to 10Gbps in E-band licenced spectrum, up to 1Gbps capacity in V-band spectrum and 500Mbps for South Africa in the licence free 17Ghz frequency band.
History of SIAE
SIAE MICROELETTRONICA was founded in 1950 and focused solely on manufacturing electro-mechanical testers, analysers for telephone systems and oscilloscopes. In 1978 they introduced their first high-frequency microwave radio and became world-renowned for their historical link that connected the two branches of the Corriere in Milan and Rome. Today, their microwave radios and wireless solutions enable millions of people in over 80 countries to communicate around the world every day.
Advantages of using SIAE Microelettronica in South Africa
SIAE Microelettronica in South Africa offers highly reliable full outdoor IP carrier-grade microwave solution combined with MiRO’s ability to precisely plan microwave links for backhaul networking deployments. Using licensed frequency bands, SIAE’s hardware reduces the competition that causes high interference in the shared spectrum. With the variety of frequency ranges that SIAE ODUs are available in, customers have the advantage of selecting hardware that will perform at high uptimes based on the environmental parameters that are unique to their region. By considering line of sight, link obstructions and regional rainfall levels, MiRO will assist you in selecting the correct frequency and antenna size during the pre-planning stage of the link. Network performance and link stability can be fine-tuned against degradation by use of adaptive code modulation, high bandwidth availability with dedicated channel separation and automatic transmit power control.
MiRO’s partnership with SIAE in Southern Africa
MiRO has partnered with SIAE Microelettronica to provide their customers with reliable microwave technology, readily available and certified for local use in Southern Africa. Selected SIAE carrier-grade technologies are MEF 2.0 compliant so that you can always be sure that SIAE microwave equipment will integrate seamlessly into your carrier ethernet network. With SIAE products from MiRO, you have the choice between selecting an ISM license-exempt solution or a fully licensed solution. The former is available on 17GHz and allows for up to 500 Mbps of uncompressed Carrier-Grade reliable throughput, whilst the latter is available from 7- to 80Ghz in single- or dual polarised options, depending on your needs. MiRO offers value-added services such as link planning, technical support and hands-on training in addition to the availability of SIAE ODUs and components that are available for purchase from our branches located in Nelspruit, Durban, Cape Town, Gauteng and online. With SIAE’s Carrier-Grade solutions and MiRO’s service, downtime and intermittent bandwidth will be a thing of the past. SIAE’s range features full outdoor IP radios that offer guaranteed throughput and high uptime availability. Their field-proven robust solutions will ensure that you have an interference-free link you can rely on.
SIAE Microelectronics FAQ's
How much does SIAE solutions cost?
Register with MiRO here and download the complete price list for available SIAE products.
Do SIAE ODUs support multiple polarities?
SIAE ODUs can function in both Vertical polarization and Horizontal polarization depending on the configuration preference.
What is the best firmware version for my SIAE ODU?
SIAE ODUs are products designed to function with 99.999% uptime, due to this they are sold with the best functional firmware to enable the unit to run an uninterrupted link without performance issues.
What is LLF and how does it work?
-Link Loss Forwarding
Link Loss Forwarding or LFF is an alarm status on the Ethernet interface. LLF can be enabled or disabled.
-Enabled: If LLF is enabled, any link down alarm will generate the alarm status of the Ethernet interface blocking any transmission to it and LLF can be enabled for each port. With LLF enabled, the equipment connected (such as routers, switches etc.) can be notified that the radio link is not available and can temporarily re-route traffic.
How do I select the best modulation for my SIAE link?
-Through enabling (ACM) adaptive code modulation
The SIAE ALFOplus radio series uses adaptive code modulation (ACM) to employ the correct modulation profile by automation depending on the RX Signal quality of the link. The available ACM profiles are:
• 4QAM STRONG
• 4QAM
• 16QAM STRONG
• 16QAM
• 32QAM
• 64QAM
• 128QAM
• 256QAM
• 512QAM
• 1024QAM
What sizes of channel Bandwidth are supported on the SIAE Alfoplus 17GHz ODUs?
The available channels on ALFOplus 17GHZ include:
• 7MHz
• 10MHz
• 14MHz
• 20MHz
• 28MHz
• 30MHz
• 40MHz
• 50MHz
• 56MHz
• 112MHz– optional
Do SIAE radios support quality of service (QoS) to ensure critical network traffic is allocated high priority during high link congestion?
SIAE ODUs support (CoS) Class of Service which enables the radios to manage multiple traffic profiles that are running over a network based on IP packet headers.
What does it mean when the light on the SIAE 17GHZ ALFOplus radios changes colours?
The LED on the rear panel of the 17GHz ODU is an indicator of the status of the ODU’s internal and external alarms.
o Red light
ON – an internal alarm is active – connect to the Web LCT for troubleshooting
Flashing – an external alarm is active
o Green Light
Flashing – no radio connection with remote ODU. In this case, if remote equipment is on and properly orientated, it is necessary to evaluate the alarm list with Web LCT software.
ON – radio connection with remote ODU is active.
How do I backup the configurations on my SIAE ODU?
On the menu of your SIAE local craft terminal
• Under Main > Backup/Restore Config.
• Type, in the backup File Name field the path where you wish to save the file and the name of the file with the file extension .bak.
• It is possible to set a name already existing for the file in the chosen path. In this case, the data present in the file will be overwritten.
• Press Backup and Confirm
o A window shows the progress of the operation
o To stop the operation, press abort and confirm
o A message displays the results of the operation
What Layer-2 functionalities are available on the SIAE ALFOplus range?
The SIAE ALFOplus Ethernet Switch functionalities include:
• MAC Switching, learning and ageing.
• Jumbo Frames of up to 10Kb.
• MEF 10.2 bandwidth profiles for Ethernet services.
• IEEE 802.1Q VLAN/ IEEE VLAN stacking QinQ and VLAN rewriting.
• LLF (Link Loss Forwarding).
• IEEE 802.3x Flow Control.
• Flexible QoS based on VLAN (IEEE 802.1p).
• Queue packet with drop policy, a tail drop, and queue drop Red/WRed/Strict, WFQ, Mixed.
• Ethernet Frame Fragmentation.
• Advanced Multi-layer 1/2/3/4 header Ethernet compressor algorithm.
• IEEE 802.1d STP (Spanning Tree Protocol).
• IEEE 802.1v RSTP (Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol).
• IEEE 802.1ag ITU-T y.1731 OAM (Operation Administration and Maintenance).
• 802.3af PoE – Power over Ethernet.
• Advanced Statistic monitoring based VLAN and priority.
• Ethernet performance monitoring – RMON.
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