SME News Q2 2018

SME NEWS / Q2 2018 25 Delivering an Advanced mmWave Network for Business Broadband and Smart City Applications was required and Siklu delivered. William Kebbell Connexin’s Chief Technical Officer, who devised the solution reflected: “Connexin have already deployed Siklu Products as mid-mile/backhaul links, therefore we were familiar with the technology. In Bradford Siklu were able to offer low latency connectivity that could be easily scaled up to a high capacity network providing an efficient solution to alleviate last mile issues”. In addition, the very nature of mmWave networks virtually eliminates interference concerns inherent in all 5GHz products. With the Siklu infrastructure, businesses can be connected to reliable high-speed broadband within 24 hours. Adopting mmWave wireless deployment methodologies covering the entire city centre took a mere few months. “The ability to expand our networks seamlessly to adapt to the needs of a city is crucial. By using Siklu’s mmWave wireless to complete the mid-mile distribution we don’t have to wait for permits to dig up roads and the disruption during integration of new hardware is limited” said Max Wilson. Since deploying the Siklu solution in January 2018, the city infrastructure is fast, reliable and stable and is no longer competing with the many 5GHz wireless networks in the city centre area. Results Connexin are currently at the build out stage of a network which is planned to cover the majority of Bradford. Siklu links are currently fed from core sites of the city centre network and the strategy is to expand the network outwards and complete the project within 3 to 5 months’ time. Due to the positive impact that the Siklu solution has had on the network capacity and stability, Connexin is now planning to deploy additional radios to replace many of the city’s existing 5GHz backhaul links with Siklu’s mmWave solutions. Siklu’s radios have helped the Bradford business centre to transform its network from one that was previously affected by congestion and interference to one that is fully functional regardless of wireless communications in the city centre area. Should Connexin seek to expand or strengthen the network further in the future, it can do so incrementally by adding additional Siklu radios as needed, benefiting from the infinite scalability inherent to mmWave wireless technology. Siklu is building urban resilience providing rock solid mmWave broadband connections up to 10Gbps, which cities and businesses can rely on and scale up in the future” said Eyal Assa, Siklu’s CEO. “Being able to provide high speed gigabit wireless services you can build a business case around, is the core of our technology and we believe partnerships like this one enables our continued growth as a gigabit leader.”