farLink

Ultra-high frequency radio solution

for long-haul information transport
 Agenda
• WHY WE MUST USE VHF/UHF RADIO IN
INDONESIA?
• farLink: SPECIFICATION
• farLink: APPLICATIONS AND
SOLUTIONS
• farLink: USAGE REFERENCE
• CONCLUSIONS
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 Agenda
• WHY WE MUST USE VHF/UHF RADIO IN
INDONESIA?
• farLink: SPECIFICATION
• farLink: APPLICATIONS AND
SOLUTIONS
• farLink: USAGE REFERENCE
• CONCLUSIONS
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 Indonesia in point of view
information transmission

17 000 +
Islands.
Need transmission

A LOT
Areas with high
25% altitude difference.
of oil output provide on Need transmission
offshore rigs.
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Need transmission
 Comparison of 3 data transmission
methods with ranges > 60 km
terrestrial
satellite cable UHF radios
high
Price medium low
extremely high
high
Operational costs low low
extremely high

Connection rate medium high medium

Relaibility medium high high

low
Roll-out time low high
or medium

Satellite transmission quality depends on the satellite electronics and its OPEX is high
Cable transmission has a very high CAPEX and its roll out spent a lot of time
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 6 reasons to use farLINK
cheap,
reliable,
easy to deploy
NLOS – Non Line Of Sight
Point to Point, Point to Multi Point
Digital, Encrypted
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 Agenda
• WHY WE MUST USE VHF/UHF RADIO IN
INDONESIA?
• farLink: SPECIFICATION
• farLink: APPLICATIONS AND
SOLUTIONS
• farLink: USAGE REFERENCE
• CONCLUSIONS
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farLink
magic VHF/UHF radio
The best way to transmit your
information up to 100 km 8
 Specification
farLink E farLink P
Configuration full outdoor (ODU) Outdoor + indoor (ODU+IDU)
394-410 MHz and 434-450 MHz
Frequency (+ any other from 150 MHz to 3 GHz on request)
Capacity @1.75 MHz up to 9.3 Mbps
@3.5 MHz up to 19 Mbps
Interfaces 4xE1 + Ethernet Ethernet
Modulation OFDM, adaptive modulation form QPSK to 64QAM
Output power up to 35 dBm (3.162W)
System gain up to 131 dB (QPSK, 1.75 MHz, BER=10-6)
Antennas Yagi antennas (up to 17 dBi)
Error coding LDPC, FEC
Configuration 1+0, 1+1, 2+0, 1.5+0.5 1+0

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The longest operating distance
outdoor RF and modem

RF unit

modem

Compact ODU

The highest system gain

with 0 db cable attenuation
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 The longest operating distance
orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)

OFDM stands against a multipath effect and interferences

and provides a high power efficiency 11
 Channels high reliability
adaptive modulation rate (AMR)

64QAM 32QAM 8QAM QPSK 8QAM 32QAM 64QAM

farLink switches modulation

from QPSK to 64QAM to make available
connection in any transmission conditions
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 Channels high reliability
time diversity

data data

data data

perfect resistance to pulse interference

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 Channels high reliability
unique scheme of data reservation 1.5+0.5

Relaible as 1+1 configuration with 150% capacity 14

 Comfort in usage
powerful network management system
Windows-based graphic user
interface
Graphic interpretation of the hope
and the whole network
Security management
SNMP and web-interface support

Flexible in configuration and

management features
Scalable maps for different regions
Full packet of software are available to
use without any limits and licenses
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Comfort in usage
powerful network management system

Graphical and textual data

representation
Timestamps and
measurement results for
every point of the chart
More than 500 parameters
per station that could be
stored and analyzed
Detailed real-time logging
Both for common and
particular cases of displaying

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 Agenda
• WHY WE MUST USE VHF/UHF RADIO IN
INDONESIA?
• farLink: SPECIFICATION
• farLink: APPLICATIONS AND
SOLUTIONS
• farLink: USAGE REFERENCE
• CONCLUSIONS
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 ITU voted for farLink

The information about our microwave system in 400 MHz was presented as a
Contribution for third Study Group 2 ITU-D meeting in September 2012.

The 400 MHz solution from Micran has been recognized as a very efficient and its
description has been incorporated into Draft Report on Question 10-3/2
“Telecommunications/ICTs for rural and remote areas".

The question stressed the importance of providing broadband communications

to rural and remote areas.
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 Applications
Transport networks of fixed telecom and ISP providers

Extremely long distance of transmitting

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 Applications
Long-haul mobile backhaul in 2G & 3G networks

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 Applications
Temporary communications

Transmitting information to remote points in Non-Line-Of-Sight

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 Applications
Remote video surveillance

Expanding communication capabilities

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 Applications
Smart grid and corporate transport networks

High reliability of communication

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 Agenda
• WHY WE MUST USE VHF/UHF RADIO IN
INDONESIA?
• farLink: SPECIFICATION
• farLink: APPLICATIONS AND
SOLUTIONS
• farLink: USAGE REFERENCE
• CONCLUSIONS
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 Stories of deployments
Gazprom rolls out a control network with farLink
Gazprom needed reliable equipment to control its network for gas production.
The main equipment requirements were:

robust communication over long pipeline
sections

high wear-resistance

low CAPEX and quick deployment

fast and efficient service support
“We have experience in the use of
Micran radio-relay stations at our
facilities. Over three years, the
equipment has been tested, and
demonstrated to be reliable and cost
effective. With this positive experience,
it was decided to use the equipment as
the communications link on GDS-1,
thus meeting the needs of our
communication requirements”.
Vasily Nagornyi
Director of the Omsk branch of LLC
Gazprom Transgaz Tomsk.
is a global energy company. Its major
business lines are production,
transportation, and sales of gas, gas
condensate and oil in the World
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 Stories of deployments
MTS comes to rural places with farLink
MTS wanted to expand its GSM coverage and was faced with the problem of communication in
rural and remote areas, where there was a long NLOS (Non-Line-Of-Sight) interval.

“The tests of Micran microwave point-

to-point equipment at the site in
Khanty-Mansiysk shows the MIC-RL400
system is the only reliable and
effective solution over this range in the
given conditions and over the given
distances.”
Sergey Kaunic
Chief engineer of microwave telecom
equipment

The basic requirements were:

A high energy potential of the radio link allows an operation on
near-line-of-sight interval

Low power consumption

A standard system for remote monitoring is a global energy company. Its major

Wide operating temperature range business lines are production,

High equipment reliability transportation, and sales of gas, gas

Ease of installation and maintenance condensate and oil in the World 26
 Stories of deployments
Rostelecom provides video surveillance system with farLink
In 2012 Rostelecom established a system for the internet broadcast of voting in the Russian presidential election
on March 4, 2012 by order of the Ministry of Communications of the Russian Federation.
“We would like to express our sincere
gratitude and deep appreciation for the
fruitful cooperation and responsibility
demonstrated by you in carrying out the
equipment supply for the project
"Organization of on-line video broadcasts
from election precincts". Due to the
cooperation between our companies a unique
video surveillance system was implemented in
a very short time and in harsh climatic
conditions. Thus we could increase the level of
public confidence in elections.”
Anatoly Grib
Deputy Director of the macroregional branch
of Siberia Rostelecom, technical director

Millions of people in the country watch the presidential

elections in Russia. It was therefore assumed that the
communication channels loading will be extremely high,
requiring the equipment to be of high quality and reliability.
The elections were held in a cold season, so the equipment Rostelecom is Russia’s largest national
deployed had to withstand extreme conditions. Also it was telecommunications operator with a
necessary to deploy the network quickly and economically. presence in all Russian regions.
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 Agenda
• WHY WE MUST USE VHF/UHF RADIO IN
INDONESIA?
• farLink: SPECIFICATION
• farLink: APPLICATIONS AND
SOLUTIONS
• farLink: USAGE REFERENCE
• CONCLUSIONS
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 Conclusions
due to high system energy and innovation in signal
processing farLink provides the longest
operational distances in class for long distances and
relaible connection

there is no alternative to farLink in the world

among VHF/UHF radios

farLink products have a nice local support as well

as localize manufacture and frendly management
system

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