Nokia announced that it has extended its collaboration with French operator Orange to upgrade its microwave backhaul network, the former said in a release.
The vendor noted that in a recent joint trial with Orange, which combined the capabilities of Nokia’s latest high-power E-Band microwave and traditional microwave frequency products, the two partners enabled a high-capacity link over a distance of almost four kilometers.
The trial successfully demonstrated the use of microwave carrier aggregation techniques, achieving a throughput of 20 Gbps over a distance of 3.6 km. This was enabled by combining the carriers from two microwave radios operating in the 18 GHz band with two E-Band microwave radios operating at 80 GHz, using a single dual-band (18+80 GHz) antenna, Nokia said.
