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BridgeWave (News - Alert) Communications is a vendor of multi-gigabit wireless connectivity links for next-generation 4G mobiles and WiMAX backhaul. Its point-to-point wireless links are spread out worldwide in mainstream enterprises, government and service provider networks. It plays a key role in today's WiMAX (News - Alert) networks. BridgeWave claims to deliver the highest levels of reliable and quality products with the largest global installed base of GigE radios.

BridgeWave has announced the latest version of its FlexPort family, which includes high-capacity 80 GHz radios for mobile backhaul. Now, FlexPort is the foremost backhaul solution incorporating quality of service (QoS) into a high-frequency, high-capacity 80 GHz product. It offers less expensive gigabit backhaul that natively supports both legacy TDM traffic along with IP-based 4G traffic.

According to a press release, the most recent version of FlexPort adds the following features:

QoS - Quality of Service: FlexPort uses a vital five port Ethernet switch which helps to apply quality of service rules to incoming traffic to prioritize data. FlexPort allows up to eight queues to ensure improved QoS performance and supports strict priority queuing or shaped deficit weighted round robin (SDWRR) queuing.

OAM - Carrier Ethernet Network Management: FlexPort incorporates Ethernet Operation, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) functionality. This helps to facilitate automated end-to-end network management and monitoring that validates connections, detects faults and alarms, and monitors link performance.

1+1 Configurations: FlexPort brings the same system redundancy found in traditional microwave systems to the millimeter wave spectrum with 1+1 Monitored Hot Standby (MHSB) configurations. It allows for two outdoor units to be coupled to one antenna via the use of a millimeter wave MHSB Coupler, invented by BridgeWave.

FlexPort has the capability to provide the most competent, flexible and reliable networks that enable on-the-fly management to accommodate the changes in network demands and subscriber needs. Operating in the 80 GHz frequency band, FlexPort is a single Outdoor Unit (ODU) platform that connects today's TDM-based mobile base stations, while simultaneously supporting full-rate gigabit IP transport for tomorrow's 4G networks. FlexPort's innovation in the high-frequency 80 GHz spectrum provides up to 1.5 Gbps of capacity which is five to ten times that of single-channel, lower licensed frequency products at significantly lower per megabit cost.