Evolution Series Long Haul

Long distance high capacity system

15.07.2011

Designed for easy migration to all-IP

Proprietary and Confidential

Largest specialist

Unique expertise in Long Haul

Trusted solution

Unique expertise SDH Long Haul since 1993

Over 60,000 units installed base

Holistic approach to network design

Turnkey specialists

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Where knowledge and experience matter

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Market share : Total Trunk Radio

Source: SLR Microwave PTP Market Share Report 1Q 2011

Alcatel-Lucent 27%

NEC 16%

Ceragon 13%

Ericsson 13%

Aviat Networks 13%

Fujitsu 6%

Others 5%

NSN 6%

Proxim 1%

Trunk Radio Market Share: Transceivers Rolling 4Q 2Q10-1Q11

Ceragon is the 3rd largest vendor in

the total trunk radio segment!

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Long Haul deliveries major customer wins

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Ceragon - a leading specialist in the LH market, with over 60.000 units installed

base in mobile, offshore, utilities and defense sectors

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Evolution IP Long Haul

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High Capacity Multicarrier 8+0

High Spectral Efficiency ACM/512 QAM/XPIC

Low Power Consumption ~70W per carrier

Risk-free Migration From TDM to all-IP

using the same platfom

Unique Configurations LH split-mount and all-indoor

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All-IP Long Haul field proven, available today

High capacity

Unique multicarrier ABC, up to 2 Gb, aggregating up to 8 carriers

High spectral efficiency

High modulation 512 QAM with ACM and XPIC

Designed for migration, field-proven

Successfully deployed to provide migration from legacy to all-packet. Provides native support for both SDH/SONET and Ethernet transport.

Lowest power consumption in the market ~70W per carrier - energy savings of up to $8,000 per site per year

Flexible deployment options All-indoor and unique long haul split-mount

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Product available today First vendor in the industry to ship and deploy all-IP long haul systems

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Any network Easy migration to all-IP

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From TDM to all-Packet,

no need for external TDM crossconnect or Ethernet switches

SDH/SONET Hybrid (TDM, Ethernet) All Packet

STM-1/OC-3 and STM-4/OC-12 interface

N+1 protection switching (N7)

Embedded ADM mux / X-connect

Ethernet over SDH/SONET

Native Ethernet up to 2 Gb/s per Link

Multicarrier ABC (Adaptive Bandwidth

Control) and ACM

L2 switch with carrier Ethernet features

TDM transport

Ethernet and TDM X-connect

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Evolution Transceiver

Designed to ease migration and reduce OPEX

Same unit for All-Indoor, Split Mount

and all-outdoor configurations

Same unit for SDH, hybrid and all-IP

28, 40 and unique 56 MHz

Transceiver convers complete

frequency band single spare!

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SW-package defines Native Ethernet or SDH/SONET transport

Plug-in Units replace SDH unit with Native Ethernet unit to enable all-IP

2 carriers per each Universal IFU

IFUs connected via back-panel

XPIC interconnection for Co-channel operation

SU Controller STM-1 STM-4 Ethernet DXC 25xE1 3XE3

SDH/SONET main interfaces

Ethernet 25xE1 STM-1 (channelized)

Native Ethernet & TDM interfaces

Baseband modular and scalable

Enables single-step migration

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Large System IFU

Larger IFU systems for:

Traffic Node with traffic L2 switch and TDM x-connect function

Multicarrier ABC for Native Ethernet

RPS (n+1) bus for SDH/SONET

Easy implementation by frame with rear interconnection panel

PCB rear panel

mounted within the

frame. 2 and 4 IFU

variants

Connectors for

rear panel

IFUs are

mounted into

frame

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Migrate from SDH/SONET to IP

Flexible migration

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7+1 6+1

Mixed system easy migration

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STM-1

Ethernet 1+0 2+0

5+1 3+1

4+0 8+0

Bra

nch

ing

Ch 1

Ch 6

Ch 5

Ch 4

Ch 3

Ch 2

Ch 1

Ch P

ABC

SU

6 + 1

STM-1

STM-1

STM-1

STM-1

STM-1

STM-1

STM-1

STM-1

Ethernet Ch2

Ch 5

Ch 4

Ch 3

Ch 2

Ch 1

Ch P

ABC

SU

5 + 1

STM-1

STM-1

STM-1

STM-1

STM-1

STM-1

STM-1

Ethernet Ch 1

Ch 4

Ch 3

Ch 2

Ch 1

Ch P

ABC

SU

3 + 1

STM-1

STM-1

STM-1

STM-1

STM-1

Ethernet Ch 3

Ch 2

Ch 1

Ch 8

ABC

Ethernet Ch 7

Ch 6

Ch 5

Ch 4

Ch 3

Ch 2

Ch 1

Ch 7

Ch 6

Ch 5

Ch 4

Ch 3

Ch 2

Ch 1

Ch P

SU

7+ 1

STM-1

STM-1

STM-1

STM-1

STM-1

STM-1

STM-1

STM-1

STM-1

0

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Any configuration All-indoor, split-mount, all-outdoor

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Flexibility in configurations to suit your network and budget

All - Indoor Split-mount

Easy maintenance

No tower climbing

Minimum cabling

60% savings on installation

material cost

Power savings

12 dB improved system gain

over cascaded couplers*

Less footprint

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Ceragon LH all-indoor vs. LH split-mount

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Baseband

Branching and Radio Units

Antenna

Branching and Radio Units

Baseband

Large footprint

Complex installation Small footprint rack

Easy installation

Coax cables inexpensive, easy to install

Waveguide - expensive

Less heat

Less Investment

Less is

Smaller antenna

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Lowest power consumption ~70W/channel

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Energy savings. Minimized OPEX.

30% - 44% lower power consumption than competitors

Full output power with 70W per carrier for a complete system

Reduced OPEX - cost of electricity, power and heat management

Allows for outdoor installation

A typical site with 10 TRX:

saves 700 USD* per year in electricity cost

saves 350 liters of diesel per year

saves about 1 ton of CO2 emission per year

Less is

* for the avg. price of 0.2 USD per kwh

For a solar powered site the difference in CAPEX is 22,400 $

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Direct RF modulation with adaptive

power amplifier control

No FANs convection cooling only

Lowest power consumption - ~70W/channel

Smart transceiver design

Fixed supply

voltage

Dissipated

as Heat

Transmitted

Supply

voltage

Dissipated as Heat

Transmitted

Without dynamic biasing

With dynamic biasing

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Long Haul OPEX Reductions Total Annual saving of $19,676

Typical Long

Haul

all-indoor

all-indoor

Ceragon

outdoor split-mount

* 20% lower power consumption system enables solar powered sites: $22,400 less in CAPEX

Typical all-indoor

Ceragon LH all-indoor

Ceragon LH split-mount

Power consumption

800W

560W 440W outdoor part 120W (serving

baseband part only).

Direct electricity savings

- 240W 240W

HVAC power consumption 272W 190W 41W

HVAC electricity savings - 82W 231W

Total savings radio link - 322W (30% less) 471W (44% less)

Total yearly electricity savings in USD* per site

- 563 USD 826 USD

Total savings per year of diesel fuel

- 280 litres 413 litres

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High spectral efficiency

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Best value for money unrivalled capacity per channel

Flexible branching to meet RF spectrum congestion challenges

Adjacent channel operation

Efficient spectrum utilization with co-channel configurations with XPIC

Unique 56/60 MHz option 3+0 for transparent Gigabit Layer 1

Common branching for SDH/SONET and IP/Ethernet

Unrivalled capacity per channel

28 MHz - 250 Mbps@512QAM

40 MHz - 370 Mbps@512QAM

56 MHz - 444 Mbps@256QAM

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