Public safety is undergoing a revolution in situation awareness due to the inclusion of multimedia. Unfortunately, many public safety communication networks were not designed or envisioned to support multimedia and the wealth of other data intensive applications. The increasing use of data and multimedia applications to enhance first responder situation awareness requires that the backhaul network must be capable of supporting this demand. This paper will explore several options available for backhauling large amounts of data in real time
Comprehensive Authentic Assessment Plan DeliverablesFor this c.docxdonnajames55
Comprehensive Authentic Assessment Plan Deliverables
For this course AAP is a response for customer’s RFP or customer’s design requirements and type of solution used in network design. Typically a customer’s RFP includes following topics.
· Business goals for the project
· Scope of the project
· Information on existing network
· Information on new applications
· Technical requirements, including scalability, availability, network performance, security, manageability, usability, adaptability, and affordability
· Warranty requirements for products
· Environmental or architectural constraints
· Training and support requirements
· Preliminary schedule with milestones and deliverables
· Legal contractual terms and conditions
Your AAP should include responses to all of customer’s RFP and should include logical and physical component pf the design, information on technologies used in design solution, and proposal to implementing the design. The following sections describe the format of AAP:
A: Executive Summary (ES)
The executive summary briefly states and emphasizes the major points of the customer’s requirements. The ES should be no more than one page and should be directed at key decision maker of the project who will decide whether to accept your design. The ES can have minimum technical information but NO technical details. The technical information should be summarized and organized in order of the customer’s highest-priority objectives for the design project. The ES should be organized customer top requirements.
B: Project Goal
This section should state the primary goal for the network design. The goal should be business oriented and related to an overall objective that organization has to become more successful in core business. Your objective is to make it clear to decision maker that you understand the primary purpose and importance of the network design project. Below is an example of project goal was written for an actual design.
“The goal of this project is to develop a wide area network (WAN) that will support new high bandwidth and low-delay multimedia applications. The new applications are key to the successful implementation of new training programs for the sales force. The new WAN facilitate of increasing sales in the USA by 50% in the next fiscal year.”
C: Project Scope
The project scope section provides information on extent of the project, including a summary of departments, field offices networks that will be affected by the project. The project scope section specifies whether the project is new network or modifications to an existing network. It indicates whether the design is for a single network segment, a set of LANs, a building or campus network, or a set of WAN or remote access network, VoIP, or enhancing security
D: Design Requirements
In this section, you provide major business and technical requirements of the network in priority order. In business goal explain the role network design will play in helping an or.
Digital Security by Design: ISCF Digital Security by Design Research Projects...KTN
KTN ran a collaborators' workshop on 26 September 2019 in London to explain more about the Digital Security by Design Challenge announced by the government.
The Digital Security by Design challenge has been recently announced by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS). This challenge, amounting to £70 million of government funding over 5 years, was delivered by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF).
This Collaborators' Workshop provides an opportunity to hear more details of the challenge and forthcoming competitions.
A Scoping Workshop for this challenge was held on 30th May: http://ow.ly/oz6230pHlGl
Find out more about the Defence and Security Interest Group at https://ktn-uk.co.uk/interests/defence-security
Join the Defence and Security Interest Group at https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8584397 or Follow KTN_UK Defence group on Twitter https://twitter.com/KTNUK_Defence
A Fascinating Behind the Scenes Look at Wireless Design Services - Techwave.pdfAnil
Wireless Design Services is one of the most underrated functions in not just tech but every aspect of our day-to-day life. Wireless Design Services serve as the very basis for some of the most sophisticated and cutting-edge technology that is used all over the world today. This blog is about the unsung strategy that goes into implementing state-of-the-art network connectivity.
CIS 524 Discussion 1 post responses.Respond to the colleagues .docxsleeperharwell
CIS 524 Discussion 1 post responses.
Respond to the colleagues posts regarding:
"Quality of Service" Please respond to the following:
• Your design team presents a project to you, in which most inputs seem to have about a 1.5-second delay before a response. The lead designer has decided this response is acceptable. Analyze response-time models and decide if the response time in the presented project is acceptable. Explain why it is or is not.
• Evaluate the importance quality of service has to designers. Choose two areas discussed in the textbook you would focus your attention to ensure quality of service for a team of designers that you were managing. Justify your choices.
NM’s post states the following:
• Your design team presents a project to you, in which most inputs seem to have about a 1.5-second delay before a response. The lead designer has decided this response is acceptable. Analyze response-time models and decide if the response time in the presented project is acceptable. Explain why it is or is not.
Hello Classmates and Professor,
Already halfway through the week.
You have to remember quality of service refers to any technology that manages data traffic to reduce packet loss, latency and jitter on the network and it controls and manages network resources by setting priorities for specific types of data on the network.
Providing sufficient Quality of Service (QoS) across IP networks is becoming an increasingly demand in today’s IT enterprise infrastructures. QoS is necessary for voice and video streaming over the network and over all internet usage.
Some applications that are run on the network are sensitive to delay. These applications commonly use the UDP protocol as opposed to the TCP protocol. QoS helps manage packet loss, delay and jitter on your network infrastructure.
Organizations can achieve QoS by using certain tools and techniques, such as jitter buffer and traffic shaping. For many organizations, QoS is included in the service-level agreement (SLA) with their network service provider to guarantee a certain level of performance.
https://www.networkcomputing.com/networking/basics-qos
Response time is the time between the submission of a request and the completion of the response. Your design must take this into consideration because after the users presses their option it is critical that user expectations are met with great return speed of task performance with little to no error rates and/or handling processes and procedures. This will affect the user’s interest and quality assessment you want to avoid the user from having frustrating experiences with your design especially if they had previous experience and tolerance for delays. Your design should also be scalable A scalable system is one that can handle increasing numbers of requests without adversely affecting response time and throughput.
Lastly, your design should be tested for the following:
* service time .
Based on the Blueprint Architectural Design of the City of Weslaco's Multiprotocal Label Switching Fiber Network. A joint team effort between the Weslaco IT Department and SmartCom of McAllen.
2.2. Case Study #2 DTGOVDTGOV is a public company that was crea.docxeugeniadean34240
2.2. Case Study #2: DTGOV
DTGOV is a public company that was created in the early 1980s by the Ministry of Social Security. The decentralization of the ministry’s IT operations to a public company under private law gave DTGOV an autonomous management structure with significant flexibility to govern and evolve its IT enterprise.
At the time of its creation, DTGOV had approximately 1,000 employees, operational branches in 60 localities nation-wide, and operated two mainframe-based data centres. Over time, DTGOV has expanded to more than 3,000 employees and branch offices in more than 300 localities, with three data centres running both mainframe and low-level platform environments. Its main services are related to processing social security benefits across the country.
DTGOV has enlarged its customer portfolio in the last two decades. It now serves other public-sector organizations and provides basic IT infrastructure and services, such as server hosting and server collocation. Some of its customers have also outsourced the operation, maintenance, and development of applications to DTGOV.
DTGOV has sizable customer contracts that encompass various IT resources and services. However, these contracts, services, and associated service levels are not standardized—negotiated service provisioning conditions are typically customized for each customer individually. DTGOV’s operations are resultantly becoming increasingly complex and difficult to manage, which has led to inefficiencies and inflated costs.
The DTGOV board realized, some time ago, that the overall company structure could be improved by standardizing its services portfolio, which implies the reengineering of both IT operational and management models. This process has started with the standardization of the hardware platform through the creation of a clearly defined technological lifecycle, a consolidated procurement policy, and the establishment of new acquisition practices.
Technical Infrastructure and Environment
DTGOV operates three data centres: one is exclusively dedicated to low-level platform servers while the other two have both mainframe and low-level platforms. The mainframe systems are reserved for the Ministry of Social Security and therefore not available for outsourcing.
The data centre infrastructure occupies approximately 20,000 square feet of computer room space and hosts more than 100,000 servers with different hardware configurations. The total storage capacity is approximately 10,000 terabytes. DTGOV’s network has redundant high-speed data links connecting the data centres in a full mesh topology. Their Internet connectivity is considered to be provider-independent since their network interconnects all of the major national telecom carriers.
Server consolidation and virtualization projects have been in place for five years, considerably decreasing the diversity of hardware platforms. As a result, systematic tracking of the investments and operational costs related to th.
Part I Identifying Your Customer’s Needs and Goals Chapter 1 A.pdfanandatalapatra
Part I
Identifying Your Customer’s
Needs and Goals
Chapter 1 Analyzing Business Goals and Constraints
Chapter 2 Analyzing Technical Goals and Tradeoffs
Chapter 3 Characterizing the Existing Internetwork
Chapter 4 Characterizing Network Traffic
Chapter 1
Analyzing Business
Goals and Constraints
This chapter serves as an introduction to the rest of the book by describing top-down
network design. The first section explains how to use a systematic, top-down process
when designing computer networks for your customers. Depending on your job, your
customers might consist of other departments within your company, those to whom you
are trying to sell products, or clients of your consulting business.
After describing the methodology, this chapter focuses on the first step in top-down network
design: analyzing your customer’s business goals. Business goals include the capability
to run network applications to meet corporate business objectives, and the need to
work within business constraints, such as budgets, limited networking personnel, and
tight timeframes.
This chapter also covers an important business constraint that some people call the
eighth layer of the Open System Interconnection (OSI) reference model: workplace politics.
To ensure the success of your network design project, you should gain an understanding
of any corporate politics and policies at your customer’s site that could affect
your project.
The chapter concludes with a checklist to help you determine if you have addressed the
business issues in a network design project.
Using a Top-Down Network Design Methodology
According to Albert Einstein:
“The world we’ve made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates
problems that we cannot solve at the same level at which we created them.”
To paraphrase Einstein, networking professionals have the ability to create networks that
are so complex that when problems arise they can’t be solved using the same sort of
thinking that was used to create the networks. Add to this the fact that each upgrade,
patch, and modification to a network can also be created using complex and sometimes
4 Top-Down Network Design
convoluted thinking, and you soon realize that the result is a network that is hard to
understand and troubleshoot. A network created with this complexity often doesn’t perform
as well as expected, doesn’t scale as the need for growth arises (as it almost always
does), and doesn’t match a customer’s requirements. A solution to this problem is to use a
streamlined, systematic methodology in which the network or upgrade is designed in a
top-down fashion.
Many network design tools and methodologies in use today resemble the “connect-thedots”
game that some of us played as children. These tools let you place internetworking
devices on a palette and connect them with LAN or WAN media. The problem with this
methodology is that it skips the steps of analyzing a customer’s requirements and selecting
devices and media based on .
5G POJECT 5
Moving from 4G to 5G
Student’s Name
Institutional Affiliation
Running head: 5G POJECT 1
Moving from 4G to 5G
Part 1
1. Identify and choose a product or service to your project
The project involves moving from 4G to 5G. The increase in data usage necessitates a faster network that meets the current and future needs of customers. While the data bandwidth of 4G technologies is between 2Mbps and 1Gbps, that of 5G technologies is 1Gbps and higher. Additionally, the frequency band of 4G technologies is between 2 and 8 GHz, while that of 5G technologies is between 3 and 300 GHz (Govindasamy, 2015). Unlike 4G which relies on the carrier’s network infrastructure individually, 5G depends on linking numerous carrier streams. The move will utilize the small cells approach to discharge network strains on 4G infrastructure to cover larger areas using coverage densification. Replacing 4G with 5G will address three key needs, which include decreasing latency to less than second, increasing data rates of at least 1GB for every second simultaneously for more users, and increasing energy efficiency (Govindasamy, 2015).
2. Explain: Why it a project:
Moving from 4G to 5G is a project because it requires many phases before a successful deployment and release to the customer for usage. The roll-out phase involves both non-standalone and standalone architectures. The first phase focuses on non-standalone architecture, where the basic network functions are validated. Key performance indicators include control plane latency, user plane latency, and cell peak data rate. The standalone 5G NR architecture is deployed in the last part of the roll-out phase (Marabissi et al., 2018). Key performance indicators related to mobility and handover will be validated, particularly mobility interruption time whose expected value is one second. The project roadmap and timeline will require between 2 and 5 years in order to accomplish a full deployment. Part of the deployment process is Pre 5G to allow a smooth transition from the current 4G to 5G.
3. Scope:
The successful implementation of the technologies require the identification of the participants in the development of the technology, identification of the existing infrastructure implications in the development and deployment of 5G, and identification and study of the potential technical barriers. Bringing together the right experts is critical to the successful completion of the project. It is important to identify the existing infrastructure that would be useful to the project to minimize time and costs without compromising quality. An early identification of technical barriers facilitates the determination of approaches to counter the barriers.
Part 2
Object ...
CLASS NAMEMIS600PROFESSORS NAME STUDENTS NAME PRO.docxmonicafrancis71118
CLASS NAME:MIS600
PROFESSORS NAME:
STUDENTS NAME:
PROJECT NAME: NETWORK DESIGN
Content
Topic Page No.
Cover Page 1
Content 2
Executive summary 3
Project Charter 3
Earn Value Statement 11
Executive Summary
Network under a set of confined region is known as Intranet. It uses an IP protocol and IP-based tools like the file transfer application and web browsers that is provided by the server to only assigned IP address. Computer network communication is an important installation in a contemporary organization organisation. As the organization's service provision is improved through the reliable communication, its competition with related firms is enhanced and, therefore, valued competence. Ultimate network design as a mode of flow of information among employees and stakeholders in promotes coordination in the management, team work and services the business offer. This automatically improves the performance of the organisation at the good will of all workers.
It should be noted that an organisation's communication systems alone holds a large percentage in its performance that it should not be compromised, even on the slightest default. This would mean that the organisation would require an Information System that when a default occurs at any single point in the connection system, it would be easier to detect and reach that point as soon as possible. The design should be design with backbone network so temporally technical problem with not upset the performance of network communication. This is more appropriate in big organisations to maintain their data and communication confidentiality, integrity and accessibility. In networking design approach, the choice of device should be intelligently selected for the desired function, this will enhance performance in terms of managing security, traffic, errors in storage and transmitting information.
Documents and programs that are sensitive are run through LAN security domain system to create passwords for their protection against cybercrimes. The protected file would then be accessed by authorised personnel only. This would be an important idea where security of flowing information is paramount. Each set of the employee has got a privilege to prevent the access of any restricted file in the company.
Project Charter
Project Name
Network Design
Project Number
DW2
Project Team
Sponsor: Robert Elson
Author : Jacobs Adam
Manager: Joyce Rob.
IoT protocols overview part 2- Tethered protocolsClint Smith
The advancement of IIoT 4.0 for smart factories, cities and buildings ushers in many exciting possibilities for improved automation and capabilities. IoT devices are unlocking the great potential for improved efficiency and improved user experiences. However, there are many different IoT protocols, network topologies and frequency bands, making IoT an intranet of things and not an internet of things. Therefore, in order to determine which IoT technology to use in solving your use case and future proofing your investment, an understanding of the IoT ecosystem is needed. This is the second in a series of papers describing the different protocols, topologies and frequency bands used in IoT deployments focusing on IoT Tethered Protocols.
The convergence of blockchain technology with Fifth Generation Wireless (5G), Long Term Evolution (LTE), Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud services fosters in a host of new services that were not possible before. The proliferation of devices in a distributed architecture has many challenges including ensuring the device configuration management and cybersecurity. This paper discusses how smart contracts can be used for configure, operate and protect IoT devices.
Comprehensive Authentic Assessment Plan DeliverablesFor this c.docxdonnajames55
Comprehensive Authentic Assessment Plan Deliverables
For this course AAP is a response for customer’s RFP or customer’s design requirements and type of solution used in network design. Typically a customer’s RFP includes following topics.
· Business goals for the project
· Scope of the project
· Information on existing network
· Information on new applications
· Technical requirements, including scalability, availability, network performance, security, manageability, usability, adaptability, and affordability
· Warranty requirements for products
· Environmental or architectural constraints
· Training and support requirements
· Preliminary schedule with milestones and deliverables
· Legal contractual terms and conditions
Your AAP should include responses to all of customer’s RFP and should include logical and physical component pf the design, information on technologies used in design solution, and proposal to implementing the design. The following sections describe the format of AAP:
A: Executive Summary (ES)
The executive summary briefly states and emphasizes the major points of the customer’s requirements. The ES should be no more than one page and should be directed at key decision maker of the project who will decide whether to accept your design. The ES can have minimum technical information but NO technical details. The technical information should be summarized and organized in order of the customer’s highest-priority objectives for the design project. The ES should be organized customer top requirements.
B: Project Goal
This section should state the primary goal for the network design. The goal should be business oriented and related to an overall objective that organization has to become more successful in core business. Your objective is to make it clear to decision maker that you understand the primary purpose and importance of the network design project. Below is an example of project goal was written for an actual design.
“The goal of this project is to develop a wide area network (WAN) that will support new high bandwidth and low-delay multimedia applications. The new applications are key to the successful implementation of new training programs for the sales force. The new WAN facilitate of increasing sales in the USA by 50% in the next fiscal year.”
C: Project Scope
The project scope section provides information on extent of the project, including a summary of departments, field offices networks that will be affected by the project. The project scope section specifies whether the project is new network or modifications to an existing network. It indicates whether the design is for a single network segment, a set of LANs, a building or campus network, or a set of WAN or remote access network, VoIP, or enhancing security
D: Design Requirements
In this section, you provide major business and technical requirements of the network in priority order. In business goal explain the role network design will play in helping an or.
Digital Security by Design: ISCF Digital Security by Design Research Projects...KTN
KTN ran a collaborators' workshop on 26 September 2019 in London to explain more about the Digital Security by Design Challenge announced by the government.
The Digital Security by Design challenge has been recently announced by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS). This challenge, amounting to £70 million of government funding over 5 years, was delivered by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF).
This Collaborators' Workshop provides an opportunity to hear more details of the challenge and forthcoming competitions.
A Scoping Workshop for this challenge was held on 30th May: http://ow.ly/oz6230pHlGl
Find out more about the Defence and Security Interest Group at https://ktn-uk.co.uk/interests/defence-security
Join the Defence and Security Interest Group at https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8584397 or Follow KTN_UK Defence group on Twitter https://twitter.com/KTNUK_Defence
A Fascinating Behind the Scenes Look at Wireless Design Services - Techwave.pdfAnil
Wireless Design Services is one of the most underrated functions in not just tech but every aspect of our day-to-day life. Wireless Design Services serve as the very basis for some of the most sophisticated and cutting-edge technology that is used all over the world today. This blog is about the unsung strategy that goes into implementing state-of-the-art network connectivity.
CIS 524 Discussion 1 post responses.Respond to the colleagues .docxsleeperharwell
CIS 524 Discussion 1 post responses.
Respond to the colleagues posts regarding:
"Quality of Service" Please respond to the following:
• Your design team presents a project to you, in which most inputs seem to have about a 1.5-second delay before a response. The lead designer has decided this response is acceptable. Analyze response-time models and decide if the response time in the presented project is acceptable. Explain why it is or is not.
• Evaluate the importance quality of service has to designers. Choose two areas discussed in the textbook you would focus your attention to ensure quality of service for a team of designers that you were managing. Justify your choices.
NM’s post states the following:
• Your design team presents a project to you, in which most inputs seem to have about a 1.5-second delay before a response. The lead designer has decided this response is acceptable. Analyze response-time models and decide if the response time in the presented project is acceptable. Explain why it is or is not.
Hello Classmates and Professor,
Already halfway through the week.
You have to remember quality of service refers to any technology that manages data traffic to reduce packet loss, latency and jitter on the network and it controls and manages network resources by setting priorities for specific types of data on the network.
Providing sufficient Quality of Service (QoS) across IP networks is becoming an increasingly demand in today’s IT enterprise infrastructures. QoS is necessary for voice and video streaming over the network and over all internet usage.
Some applications that are run on the network are sensitive to delay. These applications commonly use the UDP protocol as opposed to the TCP protocol. QoS helps manage packet loss, delay and jitter on your network infrastructure.
Organizations can achieve QoS by using certain tools and techniques, such as jitter buffer and traffic shaping. For many organizations, QoS is included in the service-level agreement (SLA) with their network service provider to guarantee a certain level of performance.
https://www.networkcomputing.com/networking/basics-qos
Response time is the time between the submission of a request and the completion of the response. Your design must take this into consideration because after the users presses their option it is critical that user expectations are met with great return speed of task performance with little to no error rates and/or handling processes and procedures. This will affect the user’s interest and quality assessment you want to avoid the user from having frustrating experiences with your design especially if they had previous experience and tolerance for delays. Your design should also be scalable A scalable system is one that can handle increasing numbers of requests without adversely affecting response time and throughput.
Lastly, your design should be tested for the following:
* service time .
Based on the Blueprint Architectural Design of the City of Weslaco's Multiprotocal Label Switching Fiber Network. A joint team effort between the Weslaco IT Department and SmartCom of McAllen.
2.2. Case Study #2 DTGOVDTGOV is a public company that was crea.docxeugeniadean34240
2.2. Case Study #2: DTGOV
DTGOV is a public company that was created in the early 1980s by the Ministry of Social Security. The decentralization of the ministry’s IT operations to a public company under private law gave DTGOV an autonomous management structure with significant flexibility to govern and evolve its IT enterprise.
At the time of its creation, DTGOV had approximately 1,000 employees, operational branches in 60 localities nation-wide, and operated two mainframe-based data centres. Over time, DTGOV has expanded to more than 3,000 employees and branch offices in more than 300 localities, with three data centres running both mainframe and low-level platform environments. Its main services are related to processing social security benefits across the country.
DTGOV has enlarged its customer portfolio in the last two decades. It now serves other public-sector organizations and provides basic IT infrastructure and services, such as server hosting and server collocation. Some of its customers have also outsourced the operation, maintenance, and development of applications to DTGOV.
DTGOV has sizable customer contracts that encompass various IT resources and services. However, these contracts, services, and associated service levels are not standardized—negotiated service provisioning conditions are typically customized for each customer individually. DTGOV’s operations are resultantly becoming increasingly complex and difficult to manage, which has led to inefficiencies and inflated costs.
The DTGOV board realized, some time ago, that the overall company structure could be improved by standardizing its services portfolio, which implies the reengineering of both IT operational and management models. This process has started with the standardization of the hardware platform through the creation of a clearly defined technological lifecycle, a consolidated procurement policy, and the establishment of new acquisition practices.
Technical Infrastructure and Environment
DTGOV operates three data centres: one is exclusively dedicated to low-level platform servers while the other two have both mainframe and low-level platforms. The mainframe systems are reserved for the Ministry of Social Security and therefore not available for outsourcing.
The data centre infrastructure occupies approximately 20,000 square feet of computer room space and hosts more than 100,000 servers with different hardware configurations. The total storage capacity is approximately 10,000 terabytes. DTGOV’s network has redundant high-speed data links connecting the data centres in a full mesh topology. Their Internet connectivity is considered to be provider-independent since their network interconnects all of the major national telecom carriers.
Server consolidation and virtualization projects have been in place for five years, considerably decreasing the diversity of hardware platforms. As a result, systematic tracking of the investments and operational costs related to th.
Part I Identifying Your Customer’s Needs and Goals Chapter 1 A.pdfanandatalapatra
Part I
Identifying Your Customer’s
Needs and Goals
Chapter 1 Analyzing Business Goals and Constraints
Chapter 2 Analyzing Technical Goals and Tradeoffs
Chapter 3 Characterizing the Existing Internetwork
Chapter 4 Characterizing Network Traffic
Chapter 1
Analyzing Business
Goals and Constraints
This chapter serves as an introduction to the rest of the book by describing top-down
network design. The first section explains how to use a systematic, top-down process
when designing computer networks for your customers. Depending on your job, your
customers might consist of other departments within your company, those to whom you
are trying to sell products, or clients of your consulting business.
After describing the methodology, this chapter focuses on the first step in top-down network
design: analyzing your customer’s business goals. Business goals include the capability
to run network applications to meet corporate business objectives, and the need to
work within business constraints, such as budgets, limited networking personnel, and
tight timeframes.
This chapter also covers an important business constraint that some people call the
eighth layer of the Open System Interconnection (OSI) reference model: workplace politics.
To ensure the success of your network design project, you should gain an understanding
of any corporate politics and policies at your customer’s site that could affect
your project.
The chapter concludes with a checklist to help you determine if you have addressed the
business issues in a network design project.
Using a Top-Down Network Design Methodology
According to Albert Einstein:
“The world we’ve made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates
problems that we cannot solve at the same level at which we created them.”
To paraphrase Einstein, networking professionals have the ability to create networks that
are so complex that when problems arise they can’t be solved using the same sort of
thinking that was used to create the networks. Add to this the fact that each upgrade,
patch, and modification to a network can also be created using complex and sometimes
4 Top-Down Network Design
convoluted thinking, and you soon realize that the result is a network that is hard to
understand and troubleshoot. A network created with this complexity often doesn’t perform
as well as expected, doesn’t scale as the need for growth arises (as it almost always
does), and doesn’t match a customer’s requirements. A solution to this problem is to use a
streamlined, systematic methodology in which the network or upgrade is designed in a
top-down fashion.
Many network design tools and methodologies in use today resemble the “connect-thedots”
game that some of us played as children. These tools let you place internetworking
devices on a palette and connect them with LAN or WAN media. The problem with this
methodology is that it skips the steps of analyzing a customer’s requirements and selecting
devices and media based on .
5G POJECT 5
Moving from 4G to 5G
Student’s Name
Institutional Affiliation
Running head: 5G POJECT 1
Moving from 4G to 5G
Part 1
1. Identify and choose a product or service to your project
The project involves moving from 4G to 5G. The increase in data usage necessitates a faster network that meets the current and future needs of customers. While the data bandwidth of 4G technologies is between 2Mbps and 1Gbps, that of 5G technologies is 1Gbps and higher. Additionally, the frequency band of 4G technologies is between 2 and 8 GHz, while that of 5G technologies is between 3 and 300 GHz (Govindasamy, 2015). Unlike 4G which relies on the carrier’s network infrastructure individually, 5G depends on linking numerous carrier streams. The move will utilize the small cells approach to discharge network strains on 4G infrastructure to cover larger areas using coverage densification. Replacing 4G with 5G will address three key needs, which include decreasing latency to less than second, increasing data rates of at least 1GB for every second simultaneously for more users, and increasing energy efficiency (Govindasamy, 2015).
2. Explain: Why it a project:
Moving from 4G to 5G is a project because it requires many phases before a successful deployment and release to the customer for usage. The roll-out phase involves both non-standalone and standalone architectures. The first phase focuses on non-standalone architecture, where the basic network functions are validated. Key performance indicators include control plane latency, user plane latency, and cell peak data rate. The standalone 5G NR architecture is deployed in the last part of the roll-out phase (Marabissi et al., 2018). Key performance indicators related to mobility and handover will be validated, particularly mobility interruption time whose expected value is one second. The project roadmap and timeline will require between 2 and 5 years in order to accomplish a full deployment. Part of the deployment process is Pre 5G to allow a smooth transition from the current 4G to 5G.
3. Scope:
The successful implementation of the technologies require the identification of the participants in the development of the technology, identification of the existing infrastructure implications in the development and deployment of 5G, and identification and study of the potential technical barriers. Bringing together the right experts is critical to the successful completion of the project. It is important to identify the existing infrastructure that would be useful to the project to minimize time and costs without compromising quality. An early identification of technical barriers facilitates the determination of approaches to counter the barriers.
Part 2
Object ...
CLASS NAMEMIS600PROFESSORS NAME STUDENTS NAME PRO.docxmonicafrancis71118
CLASS NAME:MIS600
PROFESSORS NAME:
STUDENTS NAME:
PROJECT NAME: NETWORK DESIGN
Content
Topic Page No.
Cover Page 1
Content 2
Executive summary 3
Project Charter 3
Earn Value Statement 11
Executive Summary
Network under a set of confined region is known as Intranet. It uses an IP protocol and IP-based tools like the file transfer application and web browsers that is provided by the server to only assigned IP address. Computer network communication is an important installation in a contemporary organization organisation. As the organization's service provision is improved through the reliable communication, its competition with related firms is enhanced and, therefore, valued competence. Ultimate network design as a mode of flow of information among employees and stakeholders in promotes coordination in the management, team work and services the business offer. This automatically improves the performance of the organisation at the good will of all workers.
It should be noted that an organisation's communication systems alone holds a large percentage in its performance that it should not be compromised, even on the slightest default. This would mean that the organisation would require an Information System that when a default occurs at any single point in the connection system, it would be easier to detect and reach that point as soon as possible. The design should be design with backbone network so temporally technical problem with not upset the performance of network communication. This is more appropriate in big organisations to maintain their data and communication confidentiality, integrity and accessibility. In networking design approach, the choice of device should be intelligently selected for the desired function, this will enhance performance in terms of managing security, traffic, errors in storage and transmitting information.
Documents and programs that are sensitive are run through LAN security domain system to create passwords for their protection against cybercrimes. The protected file would then be accessed by authorised personnel only. This would be an important idea where security of flowing information is paramount. Each set of the employee has got a privilege to prevent the access of any restricted file in the company.
Project Charter
Project Name
Network Design
Project Number
DW2
Project Team
Sponsor: Robert Elson
Author : Jacobs Adam
Manager: Joyce Rob.
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Backhaul Options for Public Safety
1. Backhaul Options for Public Safety Networks
Clint Smith, P.E.
csmith@nextgconnect.com
Abstract:
Public safety is undergoing a revolution in situation awareness due to the inclusion of
multimedia. Unfortunately, many public safety communication networks were not
designed or envisioned to support multimedia and the wealth of other data intensive
applications. The increasing use of data and multimedia applications to enhance first
responder situation awareness requires that the backhaul network must be capable of
supporting this demand. This paper will explore several options available for backhauling
large amounts of data in real time.
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Public safety is undergoing a revolution in situation awareness due to the inclusion of multimedia.
Unfortunately, many public safety communication networks were not designed or envisioned to support
multimedia and the wealth of other data intensive applications. The increasing use of data and multimedia
applications to enhance first responder situation awareness requires that the backhaul network must be
capable of supporting this demand. The use of media rich applications brought upon by technology
advances, places pressure not only on the backhaul but on the public safety operating budgets to take
advantage of these critical advances.
One of the daunting tasks for public safety personnel involved with the design, deployment and operations
of a communications network is what backhaul technology should be used today and provide future
proofing, so you do not continue to have stranded assets. The three main backhaul technologies which can
be used for addressing the backhaul requirements for public safety are fiber optics, wireless transport and
satellite. However, the reality is that no single technology can fully support all public safety’s
communications’ requirements. It is a combination of different technologies based the requirements,
budgets and network topology which will determine the what, when and where decisions.
In this brief article what will be discussed are some of the essential backhaul design considerations that
need to be included with a backhaul network for public safety. The backhaul design considerations include
design guidelines which are based on needs and traffic analysis as well as the desired network topology.
Then a general description of the three primary technology choices for backhaul starting with a basic
description, their typical uses and a brief listing of some pro and cons for each.
Backhaul Design Considerations:
The Backhaul configuration for a public safety network can consist of terrestrial circuits, copper and fiber,
wireless transport and satellite or a combination of all three. The backhaul itself can either be for a single
path or a complete network topology design depending on the what the requirements are.
However, when designing a backhaul network whether it is for a single or multiple path it is essential that
you know first what your objective is. The objective is simply your design goal or desired outcome.
Specifically, for the objective you should define what you are solving. Is this backhaul being put in for
connectivity, capacity, resiliency, performance, budgetary reasons or any combination of these. The next
step is to determine when the circuit or circuits need to be in service. Then you need to define how you
will get this task done through the establishment of a plan.
Sometimes the first part of the process is the hardest. The design process involves the creation of a system
architecture that provides the interconnection capabilities to support the various elements of the public
safety network(s) which includes both wired and wireless nodes.
The backhaul design process needs to include the following items as part of the process.
• Obtain your existing network backhaul topology
• Identify the connectivity requirements for the network and individual links
• Obtain the existing capacity and functionality requirements, latency, redundancy and reliability
objectives
• Compare the existing backhaul topology against your design/performance criteria
• Obtain the existing OpEx costs as well as CapEx for the current network or link.
• Project what the needs will be over a defined period of time as well as future growth.
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Now that you have the current network backhaul topology if there are no gaps or additional needs then
everything is fine. However, if you determine that there are some gaps or additional needs to support the
public safety broadband requirements for backhaul then a design process needs to begin either for the link,
portion of the network or the entire network. The backhaul design process can be organized into three
functional step which are:
• HDR – high-level design review
• PDR – preliminary design review
• CDR – critical design review
The adherence to the three-step process should be structured so that it creates a logical review process but
does not impede the ability to improve the network or lengthen timescales.
As an example, the HDR would cover the objectives for backhaul design – technology options, architectures
for enhanced reliability, long term growth plans etc. The PDR and CDR would focus, in progressing detail,
on the specifics of the design and assumptions, QoS objectives and impact, and construction impediments.
The PDR and CDR would also review the impact to other processes impacted by the backhaul design result,
as well as construction budgets. The CDR would be the final review defining the resulting infrastructure
that is required.
The High-Level Design Review (HDR) is the first step in the design process. The objective is to review
the overall solution for the backhaul network. Issues that will be addressed involve the interface, capacity,
quality and availability specifications of the network designed and integrating this into the system
management, end users, financial, legal and regulatory requirements.
Some of the major topics that need to be addressed in the technical HDR are:
• Network Topology and Architecture selected
• Availability, capacity and quality levels supported
• Technology Strategy
• Integration into existing network architecture
• Interconnect Plan for all services supported
• Vendor and equipment/system selections
• Network management architecture
• Growth concepts
• System Availability and fall back requirements
• Disaster recovery
• Future Services/Platforms concept
The Preliminary Design Review (PDR) process bridges the gap between the high-level design and final
critical design for the system or platform offerings. The preliminary design ensures all the technical details
are presented in a formal process with one distinction. The preliminary design is not the final design and
the design presented is intended to be a tentative baseline solution based on all available information. The
preliminary design result can be a direct move to the Critical design or lead to revisions to the fundamental
design requiring a revisit to key business and technical assumptions utilized in the creation of the
preliminary design.
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For the preliminary design to be effective the following are the general items, which need to be included in
the design process. Depending on the specific network element and the design objective some of the general
topics can be removed. However, the list is not all inclusive and is not rank ordered.
• Design Criteria
• Traffic Design
• Capacity forecast per node (1,2,5 yr.)
• Network Topology/Architecture
• Path Analysis
• Backhaul technology Platforms Chosen
• Service Treatment Methods (features/capabilities)
• Service Level Agreements (SLA)- by type including QoS, KPI and restoration
• Resiliency and Availability Objective (99.XXX%)
• Interconnection requirements (PSTN, Internet, Private Network)
• Available interconnect options (Fiber, Microwave, Copper, satellite)
• Synchronization Plan
• IP Address Plan
• Facility Diversity Plan
• Power Plant (AC/DC and Generator) design
• Disaster Recovery Plan/Requirements
• Implementation Plan (key dates and requirements)
• Personnel Resources
• Equipment Ordering and Delivery Schedule
• Installation and Commissioning
• Legacy System Plan
• Monitoring Plan (NOC)
• Regulatory Requirements (FCC licenses)
• Activation
• Budget (CapEx and OpEx)
The Critical Design Review (CDR)’s objective is to lock down the design. The lock down is important for
several reasons related to logistics for not only securing and configuring the physical property locations,
ordering and commissioning facilities and ordering the necessary equipment so that it will arrive in the
required time frame for service delivery.
The chief (main) difference between the PDR and the CDR is that during the PDR open issues could be
identified and left for refinement while in the CDR there can be no open issues left for debate.
The design process or review should take place on a regular basis. The specific interval should be chosen
so it facilitates a healthy backhaul network. The performance of the backhaul links and network should be
monitored on a continuous basis. However, a review of the backhaul network design and topology should
be done at least once a year.
A difficult step in any backhaul design process and especially in public safety is determining the specific
needs for each of the various departments and agencies which will be using the backhaul.
Therefore, it is important to obtain a brief needs assessment from each. The questions at a high level involve
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• What – what is the objective or current needs, i.e. what are you trying to accomplish?
• When – when does it need to be realized, implemented?
• How – how is the resolution going to be achieved, i.e. the plan?
• Constraints – What constraints are to be placed on the design?
Answering these four questions will ensure that the objective, prioritization and actualization are achieved
in an organized and planned method.
The system traffic analysis directly defines the transport requirements for the backhaul design. The traffic
and transport requirements for overall backhaul and the specific link requirements for each path is defined
by the expected usage and applications that are needed to be delivered to and from the end terminal devices.
• Projected traffic and types of service offerings (launch, 6mo, 1,2 and 5yr)
• IP and circuit switch traffic blends with growth including potential migration of existing legacy
systems (i.e. possible traffic mixture implications with VoIP and H.265)
The cost effectiveness of an architecture can be determined only on a case-by case basis, since it depends
on many case-specific considerations and conditions.
The topology of the backhaul network is directly linked to the transport requirement. The topology design
will most likely a combination of topologies due to legacy issues. However, the backhaul topology ideally
should migrate toward a flat architecture whenever possible.
Therefore, the backhaul topology and architecture needs to ensure that traffic, both voice and data, can be
sent and received between the desired elements in the network. While the design will be unique for each
network there are some general concepts and topologies which are applicable. Typically, a design involves
multiple sites and nodes which utilize several types of connectivity methods including leased T1/E1’s, fiber,
wireless transport and satellite.
Before the topology design can commence the existing infrastructure, which is owned, leased or available
for potential use needs to be reviewed and included in the design process to ensure that the most efficient
use of available resources while reducing the overall Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) has been achieved.
It is suggested that the existing infrastructure used or available for use be mapped on the network diagram
if it has not been done already.
Topology:
The backbone topology in support of broadband demands can and does take on many different
configurations and in most cases has a combination of different topologies. The following are the more
general topologies that are used either by themselves or as part of the overall backbone topology. The four
basic topology types are flat, star, mesh and ring. These links can be from a service provider or be directly
owned by public safety.
The topology used for the public safety broadband network can be a single link also referred to as a point
to point link or involve multiple links. For example, a star configuration, also called a hub and spoke is a
configuration that exists in many wireless broadband networks. With the star configuration there are
concentration nodes, or rather aggregation points where many nodes or devices are directly connected to a
common element. With a star configuration a failure with an aggregation node, depending on the protection
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scheme employed, will isolate the node from the rest of the network. All the other nodes that are not
connected through the aggregation node will continue to operate normally.
The loop or ring network topology is another configuration which usually two paths for connectivity for
nodes. This path diversity scheme provides a higher resiliency if one node has failure affording an
alternative path for the other nodes to transport their traffic. Many loop, ring, topologies operate in the U.S.
utilizing SONET. While SONET affords greater resiliency than a star configuration to facilitate an
alternative path, typically only half of the available bandwidth or carrying capacity is used in this
configuration to facilitate the path resiliency.
The third type of network topology that is being more readily deployed is the flat architecture. A flat
network topology, also referred to as Metro Ethernet, utilizes an IP only backbone to achieve connectivity.
The flat network topology affords high resiliency and is effectively a large LAN. A flat architecture is
desired to improve latency in any backbone design.
When determining which topology design best supports the connectivity needs a lot of information needs
to be considered. Depending on the actual configuration the list of nodes requiring connectivity can and
will vary based on the system requirements. Therefore, when selecting the type of topology or topologies
that will be used the following items need to be considered.
• Network size (number and location of network nodes)
• Capacity and traffic growth between each node
• Interface and signaling requirements
• Preferred locations for effective interconnect to OMC, PSTN, Internet, etc.
• Availability of existing fiber optic capacity; cost and reliability
• Availability of microwave spectrum
• Availability of leased lines and related cost, reliability issues.
• Availability of public and private right-of-way permits to construct or extend a fiber network.
• Cost and budget constraints
• Requirements of design scalability and flexibility
• Multi-vendor environment issues related to problem isolation
• Space and power requirements
• Recurring costs
Technology:
Three types of transport technology will be briefly discussed next. The three transport technologies are
Fiber Optics, Wireless Transport and Satellite.
Fiber Optics:
Fiber optics communication networks utilize pulses of light to send data over a glass cable. Fiber optics
are superior to typical copper connections since they provide high capacity connectivity with very low
latency. Fiber optics facilities can support any transport protocol like TDM, ATM, IP as well as proprietary
transport protocols.
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Fiber optics connectivity are typically provided by leased lines from the LEC or CLEC. However,
depending on the amount of fiber links needed or the requirements, public safety can deploy its own fiber
optic network.
Fiber optic facilities are grouped into three basic categories, lit, dim and dark. If the fiber optic link is lit,
then it is transporting traffic on it and operated by a service provider. If the fiber link is dim, then the
operator or lessee has control of the fiber link itself from the service provider. If the fiber is dark, then you
are normally responsible for providing the circuitry to enable the fiber to transport traffic.
All fiber optic circuits utilize either a single mode (SM) or multimode (MM) fiber optic cable. The choice
of which fiber type to use is dependent upon the application it is being used for. Specifically, SM uses an
optical frequency that is modulated by use of a laser allowing it to transmit the data over a long transmission
path. MM however uses LED’s for sending and receiving data and is meant for short distance
communication links, typically within a building and has a lower bandwidth than single mode.
SM has less attenuation than MM due to the characteristics of the fiber optic cables properties.
Additionally, SM fiber is used in many applications where data is sent at multi frequency Wave-Division-
Multiplexing (WDM) and Dense Wave-Division-Multiplexing (DWDM).
Therefore, if you are connecting two nodes or multiple nodes across the state of city then you are most
likely going to utilize SM fiber. However, if you are connecting fiber between racks of equipment within a
building or between floors you will probably use MM fiber. MM is cheaper than SM since it uses diodes
instead of lasers and does not require the higher-grade optical cable characteristics.
A typical leased service for fiber optics is referred to as Metro Ethernet network (MEN). A MEN is an IP
network using a fiber optic backbone and is usually established as a ring topology. MENs however are not
available everywhere. There are two types of MEN connectivity: Ethernet-Line (E-Line) and Ethernet-LAN
(E-LAN). E-line is a point to point service that is done by setting up a VPN between the two nodes. While
E-LAN is a multipoint connection where the E-LAN appears as a LAN connection to the Node.
One important note is that just because fiber is on the street where you have a node does not mean it is
available. For connectivity with fiber an optical multiplex unit (OMU) needs to be present to facilitate the
data entering and exiting the fiber network itself. The OMU uses lasers and there are different frequencies
that can be used based on the selection of the laser itself.
Fiber optics used for a backhaul network can be deployed as point to point, multi-point or ring architecture
in any broadband backhaul network. Fiber optics can and should also be part of an overall network
survivability strategy. Specifically, if resiliency though diverse routes are important, the diverse routes of
the two fiber paths take have no common elements or transverse the same conduit.
The capacity of a fiber optic system depends on many factors however the following have a direct say in
the capacity:
• The bit rate capacity of the Fiber Optic Electronics
• Quality/Characteristics of the Fiber Optic Cable
• Protection ratio employed
When designing or configuring a fiber network some of the key requirements for the design include:
• Network Architecture requirements including topology
• Network capacity projections at every level
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• Protection Scheme options
• Type of construction (buried, aerial)
• Fiber grade and manufacturer
• Cable reel lengths, splice/repeater locations
• Connector type
• Laser type
• Fiber Terminating and Interconnecting equipment availability and cost
• Location of existing fiber terminal equipment
• Proposed/ultimate equipment requirements for all locations
• Type of multiplex equipment required for interface between networks and network elements
A fiber optic system will normally be used as a backbone transport to connect major network locations
either as point to point systems or with a ring configuration. The decision to use a fiber optic system as
part of the overall backhaul design will depend on the following:
• Service Cut-over schedule
• Capacity needs
• Link distances and size of network
• Type of construction (aerial, buried)
• Ability to secure property to house equipment (leased or acquired)
• Ability to secure permit and licenses to build infrastructure
• Vendor and equipment availability
• Available CAPEX
Wireless Transport
Wireless transport uses a radio link to connect one node to another node. A node can be a broadband
wireless site, or it can be a network operating center. Wireless transport utilizes microwave frequencies for
its radio link. These links can be deployed as a last mile or access connection, backbone or a combination
of both. Wireless transport links can support both TDM and IP traffic. These links(s) can be constructed as
a single hop of less than 2 Km or as a backbone route (backhaul) that includes multiple hops spanning 15-
20 Km each. Wireless transport link paths require line-of-sight and are often limited in use by building or
terrain blockage or existing use of the licensed spectrum within urban areas.
Frequency bands used for wireless transport is recommended by the ITU. Each band is defined for the
frequency range, the channel spacing, and the bit rate. However, restrictions are placed on the link distance
so that the lower frequency bands are reserved for the longer hops. Some of the microwave frequency bands
used are 2 GHz, 6 GHz, 11 GHz, 18 GHz, 23 GHz, 36 GHz, etc. The higher frequencies have greater
bandwidth however they also have less range.
With wireless transport it is preferable to utilize licensed frequencies for mission-critical networks to protect
the network from unintentional interference from other users. Several License exempt frequency bands are
available depending on geographic area.
License exempt wireless transport links, can be implemented more rapidly and are well suited for temporary
solutions. However, it is not recommended as a long-term solution due to the risk involved to the reliability.
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The wireless transport network can be established as a point to point link meaning it connects one node to
another. Wireless transport can also be configured for a star connection where a group of nodes all
concentrate their traffic to one place. Another typical configuration for wireless transport is a ring topology
used primarily for resiliency. However due to network topology all these configurations can be utilized in
different parts of the system.
Wireless transport can have a variety of resiliency alternatives from providing N+1 or 1 to 1 hardware. It
can also utilize link redundancy by having another link established between the nodes for backup purposes.
Some of the key requirements or support information needed when designing wireless transport enabled
backhaul network or link are:
• Overall Network Architecture / Topology Plan
• Interface Requirements (Cat5/6, T1-E1)
• Link Details (per link)
• Link capacity required
• Frequency of operation
• Polarization
• Antenna size requirement
• Antenna height
• Antenna azimuth
• Hop length
• Line of sight survey report for link
• Protection scheme (hot standby, loop, etc.)
Wireless transport enabled networks can be constructed with path redundancy in a ring/loop configuration
or connected to fiber optic system (hybrid). The decision to use wireless transport as part of the backhaul
architecture will depend on the following:
• Spectrum (licensable channels) availability
• Construction cost and schedule (includes licensing and frequency coordination time)
• Capacity requirements vs. available channel bandwidths
• IP capability and availability of specific interfaces
• Links distances and line of sight issues
• Ability to secure permit and licenses to build infrastructure (includes zoning)
• Vendor and equipment availability
The high-level Microwave Backbone design steps are:
1. Needs Analysis
2. Traffic Analysis
3. Topology Design
4. Preliminary Path Profiling
5. Field Path Surveys
6. Final Path Profiling
7. Path Propagation Performance Analysis
8. RF Interference Analysis and Channel Selection
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9. Prior Frequency Coordination Notification
10. FCC License
Wireless transport links (point to point and more recently, point to multipoint) are often used in conjunction
with fiber optic and/or wire line services to interconnect communications network equipment.
Satellite
Satellite communication systems come in many varieties and depending on your specific requirements for
coverage and bandwidth the proper system can be selected for your needs. Satellites can be low earth orbit
(LEO), medium earth orbit (MEO) or geosynchronous earth orbit (GEO). However, all satellite
communication systems utilize line of sight between the satellite and the end device.
Satellite communications involves both fixed and mobile devices. The mobile satellite services (MSS)
either are portable satellite phone or terminals. The MSS satellite phones are narrowband and provide voice
services allowing for reach back to either another satellite phone, cellular phone, or landline. Another type
of MSS is a Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) satellite terminal which can be mounted on a vehicle
or in a backpack and are quick to set up and can support data rates of up to 256kbps.
MSS is excellent for immediate setup however the Fixed Satellite Service (FSS) enables higher bandwidth.
FSS systems typically operate in the C or Ku Bands. The Ku band typically requires a 3 to 8-foot dish and
the C band needs a dish of 12 feet or more in diameter.
High Throughput Satellite (HTS) is the next generation satellite telecom. HTS systems use spot beam
technology which greatly enhances its throughout giving it the ability to provide broadband services. HTS
falls within the MSS and FSS satellite spectrum assignment.
Whether the satellite system is fixed or mobile it relays its signal through a satellite that can go to another
satellite device or to the internet or landline service. Satellites are equipped with multiple repeater units
called transponders and some satellites can be linked together to form a meshed network.
Satellite communication has the unique ability to deliver bandwidth exactly where and when it is needed
independent of the geography and local infrastructure. GEO Satellites are typically used for backhaul
requirements. For a Public Safety backhaul network each node would require its own satellite connectivity
link and most likely utilize the same satellite for all its communication needs.
Some of the advantages with using satellite communication for backhaul include:
• Broad coverage area
• Independent of Terrestrial Facilities
– Ideal for remote connections
– Disaster Recovery
– Mobile incident command setup
• Transmission cost is independent of the coverage area
• Able to provide load sharing and surge capacity
• Redundancy though providing path diversity
Some of less advantage would include:
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• Bandwidth limited to satellite transponder capability and available bandwidth
• Cost inhibitive
Satellite communication systems should be part of a public safety communication system helping to protect
critical links by providing a communication path in times of emergency or in establishing a mobile
communication system. Satellite communication should be used along with fiber optic, wireless transport
and/or wire line services to interconnect communications network equipment.
Brief comparison:
The table 1 is a brief comparison of the three transport technologies for broadband backhaul.
Fiber Optic Wireless Transport Satellite
Bandwidth Unlimited In Gb/sec limited
Latency Low Low High
(need PEP accelerator)
Reliability High High High
Climate Effect Immune except when Rx or Tx
hardware is damaged by flood
Weather affected Weather affected
Terrain Not effected Need LOS LOS
Deployment time Increases with distance Quick Fast
Mobility Not possible Possible Vary
MSS- is portable
Reusable Typically, cannot be relocated
once deployed
Can be removed and
relocated if required
FSS - Can be removed and
relocated if required
Regulation Right of way Spectrum regulation
(even for license exempt)
Spectrum regulation
Cost By distance in $/Ft or $/Meter
a) Number of channels
required
b) Point to point link
distance
c) Type of install (in ducts or
overhead)
Cost per link (by distance) Independent of distance
Table 1: Backhaul Transport Technology Comparison
Conclusion:
The requirements and needs of public safety continue to evolve wireless transport for backhaul can and
will continue to play a critical role in meeting their communication needs.
Since there is no single technology or network topology that will meet all public safety’s requirements a
hybrid approach is needed.
Each technology discussed in this article clearly has its pros and cons depending on the specific demands
of a situation and geographical area. Thus, every public safety agency needs to choose a combination of
backhaul technologies that best aligned with their needs both currently and into the near future.
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Through following a best practices approach for backhaul design the proper combination of backhaul
technologies can be achieved meeting the short term and long-term needs of public safety.
I trust that you found this article useful.
Clint Smith, P.E.
Next G Connect
CTO
csmith@nextgconnect.com
Who we are:
NGC is a consulting team of highly skilled and experienced professionals. Our background is in wireless
communications for both the commercial and public safety sectors. The team has led deployment and operations
spanning decades in the wireless technology. We have designed software and hardware for both network
infrastructure and edge devices from concept to POC/FOA. Our current areas of focus include 4G/5G, IoT and
security.
The team has collectively been granted over 160 patents in the wireless communication space during their careers.
We have also written multiple books used extensively in the industry on wireless technology and published by
McGraw-Hill.
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