California-based Siklu which provides millimetre wave (mmWave) solutions for Digital City and Gigabit Wireless Access (GWA), launches the MultiHaul TG small Terminal Unit (TU) – T260. The product is designed for faster and unobstructive installation on the exteriors of homes, apartment buildings or street furniture such as streetlights.
Having two design features that reduce the installation time for the TU from hours to less than 30 minutes, the T260 within 400m range of the network is merely pointed in the general direction of the antenna and will connect automatically. The new product has also eliminated the need to ground the T260 electrically. These helps save significant time for the installer who can simply point and move to the next installation.
Having certified to the highest of the industry standards – IP67 and NEMA4, T260 is temperature and environmentally hardened. The new product addition provides Siklu with the most versatile Terragraph-certified portfolio. It now has the widest range of terminal units for a variety of needs and applications.
With these features, the T260 will make it easier to provide a variety of Gigabit-speed wireless services, true broadband Internet, Wi-Fi hotspot backhaul and various Smart City applications, such as security and traffic monitoring.
Siklu’s current MultiHaul TG family represents its third generation of Terragraph-compliant, point- to-multipoint 60GHz products and enables a fully-meshed network topology that reduces capital expenditure and operating costs for operators and offers several performance benefits.
“There can be no doubt that the smaller the TU is, the more options customers have for deployment – and the more likely they are to use it,” said Shimon Hochbaum, AVP Product Management of Siklu. “Typically, in wireless systems, going smaller means sacrificing performance. However, the T260 breaks new ground by delivering a full Gigabit in a form factor that is dramatically impressive on many levels.”
