Sophia-Antipolis and Barcelona, February 25th, 2013 – 3Roam, the innovator in high-capacity wireless backhaul announces first deployments of its AERO® Duo Gigabit backhaul solutions.

While competitors are still announcing plans for high-modulation products, 3Roam is already shipping its AERO Duo spectrum efficient point-to-point radios. Relying on 1024QAM radio technology, it provides significant improvement in spectrum efficiency compared to existing products.

AERO Duo is the ideal upgrade path for existing network infrastructure. Operators can increase wireless links capacity by 25% compared to mainstream 256QAM-based equipment. It provides even bigger gains for Operators upgrading their SDH-based networks, with more than 50% capacity increase, keeping spectrum costs untouched.

Reaching 500Mbps throughput with a single radio sets a new milestone in the evolution of wireless backhaul. But more interesting is the possibility for Operators to stop the growth of their backhaul spectrum expenditures: considering that networks are mostly composed of small capacity capillary links, AERO Duo’s support for narrow 3.5MHz radio channels helps grow capacity and contain cost for spectrum in the same time.

AERO Duo product family has been designed to meet a variety of Operators requirements:

AERO Duo 1G, the Ethernet bridge radio is the perfect option for last mile interconnection to LTE and all IP base stations.

AERO Duo 4G provides the advanced IP capabilities required for network protection and Gigabit connectivity of large capacity aggregation links.

AERO Duo 4G+, the hybrid radio, provides both native-TDM and native-IP support for 2G and 3G Operators deployments and capacity upgrades.

AERO Duo is the option of choice for Operators looking for already available 1024QAM technology: its integrated pre-distortion technique allows for high transmission power even when running advanced 1024QAM modulation and the fanless design of its indoor unit enables high-reliability operation.

See AERO Duo in action at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, February 25th – 28th in Hall 5, booth I100.