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Canopy Overview
Canopy Solutions Overview
ISP Solutions
Carrier Solutions
Enterprise Solutions
Metro WiFi Solutions
Point-to-Point Solutions
Powerline LV Solution
Video Surveillance
Educational Solutions
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Canopy Solutions Overview
The Globally Proven Wireless Solution for Deploying and Extending Broadband Networks Broadband is today’s communications gold standard. Virtually everybody wants it, but reaching users—whether customers or colleagues—with secure, reliable, cost-effective broadband service has been an enormous challenge. The process of designing, installing, integrating, maintaining and extending complex broadband networks has been costly and time-consuming.
Until now.
The Canopy® system, Motorola’s innovative wireless broadband solution, is the ideal technology for developing, enhancing and extending advanced broadband networks and services - and for making delivery of high-demand technologies (like broadband Internet access, voice over IP, video services, security surveillance and E1/T1 capabilities) both much quicker and much less expensive.
Wireless broadband technology combines carrier-grade toughness with exceptional performance, security, ease-of-use and cost effectiveness. It significantly reduces the time to design and deploy new commercial and enterprise broadband networks. It also seamlessly integrates with existing network systems and management tools to make extending and augmenting existing service simpler and less cost-intensive.
The Canopy platform offers one of lowest total costs of ownership in the industry, and can deliver proof of business case with ROIs in just six-to-twelve months. Right now, it’s proving its value and toughness in more than 100 countries around the world, in a wide range of applications.
The Canopy system leverages Motorola’s more than 75 years of radio knowledge, experience and leadership. Motorola’s dedication to creating and maintaining trusted relationships over the long-term means Canopy platform users are assured of high levels of worldwide service and support as their networks grow over the years.
ISP Solutions
Broadband Simplified
In today’s crowded broadband communications marketplace, no system can match the Motorola Canopy platform’s combination of advanced technology, simplified configuration, rapid deployment and remarkable cost effectiveness. The system enables ISPs to differentiate themselves, create competitive advantage and attract and please increasingly demanding residential and business customers, even in hard-to-reach areas.
Simple Network Design
The Canopy system’s intelligent protocols streamline deployment and operation. A simple network design allows the system to complement your existing network, and makes it exceptionally easy to install. There is no need to run overhead or in-ground wire, install microwave or software. The equipment is intuitive and efficient, providing built-in installation and deployment assistance that makes it faster to get up and running… often in a matter of hours or days instead of weeks or months.
Flexible Configuration Options
The Canopy system offers configuration options that meet and exceed both provider and customer expectations. The platform can be configured as a single-site point-to-multipoint system that supports subscribers for distances up to 15 miles (24 kilometers). The Motorola point-to-point series of wireless Ethernet bridges increase delivery range up to 124 miles (200 kilometers). In addition, the system includes interfaces that enable it to easily integrate with standard network management tools and billing systems, as well as diagnostic capabilities you’ll need to remotely monitor the network.
Superior Performance
The Canopy solution delivers superior performance using a modulation scheme that improves the quality of data delivery and mitigates interference from other systems. The system’s wireless signals are highly effective in penetrating obstacles and avoiding obstructions, making it as efficient in dense urban environments as it is in suburban areas or rural locations. The platform provides last mile access in a variety of spectrum choices, ensuring exceptional broadband performance no matter which spectrum is best for your network.
Exceptional Security
The platform also offers security with over-the-air DES (Data Encryption Standard) encryption and is also available with AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) capabilities, which provide 128-bit encryption, to ensure secure data delivery and exceptional reliability. With AES, it would take approximately 149 trillion years—that’s older than the earth itself—to crack a code.
Incredible Speed
The Canopy platform’s upload and download speeds are as fast as or faster than virtually every other service available today. The point-to-multipoint Canopy system offers speeds from 512 Kbps to 14 Mbps (aggregate data rates) and the Motorola point-to-point bridges deliver from 7.5 to 300 Mbps (aggregate data rates) to your user now. Of course, upload and download speeds are affected by several factors so actual speeds may vary, but the potential to offer an incredible broadband experience is inherent in the Canopy system.
Carrier Solutions
Network Expansion Made Simple
Today’s telecommunications market is tough and getting tougher. Carriers around the world are searching for ways to extend their DSL networks and reach new locations, new people and new markets. The solution is the powerful Canopy wireless broadband system that complements practically any DSL network and supports exciting services like high-speed broadband access, video surveillance, VoIP and City WiFi. In addition, it can be efficiently and affordably deployed and integrated in days, not weeks or months.
Simple Design
The Canopy solution’s simple network design allows the system to complement existing networks, and makes it exceptionally easy to install. There is no need to run overhead or in-ground wire, install microwave or software. The Motorola wireless broadband systems also offer a wide range of flexible, practical configuration options: point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, or as the backbone for a metro WiFi network.
Incredible Speed
The Canopy platform’s upload and download speeds are as fast as or faster than virtually every other service available today. But today’s broadband marketplace is no longer simply about speed; that’s just the price of admission. Today, both business and residential customers are also demanding high quality, reliability, scalability and enhanced security.
Superior Performance
Canopy technology delivers superior performance and reliability using a modulation scheme that improves the quality of data delivery and mitigates interference from other systems. When capacity needs increase, the Canopy solution is scalable to accommodate changing requirements, wider geographic areas, larger user populations and higher traffic volumes.
Exceptional Security
The Canopy platform also offers enhanced security with over-the-air DES (Data Encryption Standard) encryption. Importantly, it is also available with AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) capabilities, which provide 128-bit encryption, to ensure secure data delivery and exceptional reliability.
Enterprise Solutions
Broadband for the Enterprise
The business benefits of broadband communications and Internet access are easy to see. Broadband can: unite corporate and institutional campuses and locations; promote communication, information sharing and collaboration; tighten security and increase safety: improve employee and customer relations; and a lot more.
The challenges of setting up an effective broadband system, however, have always been significant: cost, complexity and time. From purchasing spectrum licenses to designing, installing and maintaining complicated and cumbersome networks, the process has been expensive, time-consuming and daunting.
The Motorola Canopy® system has changed all that.
The Canopy platform brings powerful radio technology to enterprise communications applications, making deploying and delivering low-cost broadband access faster and easier than ever before. It provides the performance, versatility, ease-of-use and affordability that enable enterprise environments—including corporate, municipal, healthcare, education and more—to improve communication, productivity, security and return on investment (ROI).
The Canopy wireless broadband system offers products in the 900 MHz, 2.4, 5.1, 5.2, 5.4 and 5.7 GHz frequency bands. Start-up costs are more affordable than virtually any other connectivity option, yet Canopy technology delivers speed and performance second to none. In addition, the Canopy platform reduces monthly recurring cable or T1 costs because there is no need to go through phone or cable networks.
With the Canopy solution, there is no need to run overhead or in-ground wire, install microwave or software. The equipment is streamlined, with built-in installation and deployment assistance, making it faster and easier to get up and running. The Canopy platform also includes interfaces that enable it to easily integrate with standard network management tools and systems.
The platform delivers superior performance using a modulation scheme that improves the quality of data delivery and mitigates interference from other systems. It enhances security with over-the-air DES (Data Encryption Standard) encryption and is also available with AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) capabilities.
Canopy technology can be adapted to fulfill a wide range of enterprise needs. The point-to-multipoint application can serve numerous enterprise locations of virtually any size. The Motorola point-to-point series of wireless Ethernet bridges can serve as a dedicated link for the enterprise community. A single-site point-to-multipoint Canopy system can be used for distances up to 15 miles (24 kilometers) while the point-to-point series delivers up to 124 miles (200 kilometers). When your capacity needs increase, the Canopy solution is scalable to accommodate changing requirements, wider geographic areas, larger user populations and higher traffic volumes.
Metro WiFi Solutions
The Metro WiFi Revolution Begins Here
Wireless broadband and Metro WiFi are sweeping the world, creating a global buzz unseen in the communications arena since the advent of the Internet.
For communities large and small, Metro WiFi can help conquer the digital divide, encourage economic development, streamline public services and public safety and create a greater sense of community among residents.
For campuses and enterprises, Metro WiFi can improve productivity; promote communication, information sharing and collaboration; tighten security and increase safety; and improve employee and customer relations.
But which solution is right for your community, enterprise or campus environment? And whom do you turn to for help? The answer is Motorola.
As an acknowledged innovator and global leader in wireless technology, Motorola’s experience in “connecting the unconnected” is unparalleled. Our MOTOwi4™ portfolio includes some of the most comprehensive Mesh Solutions available in the industry today. Our team of experts will help you choose the right technology for your application and deliver a comprehensive suite of services ranging from network design through installation, operation and management of your network.
Motorola’s Mesh Solutions provide cost-effective equipment, rapid deployment and fast ROI to the Metro WiFi marketplace.
- HotZone Duo is a powerful next-generation dual-radio network solution designed to give providers of high-speed public access networks the flexibility to meet short-term and long-range performance, affordability, capacity and ROI goals. HotZone Duo has two embedded radios (a 2.4 GHz, 802.11b/g radio and a 5.8 GHz, 802.11a radio) which can be configured into a single-radio or dual-radio node. Customers can choose the radio configuration that best meets their needs, utilizing any mix of single- and dual-radio clusters.
- Canopy™ HotZone* is a dedicated solution for communities concerned primarily with improving public Internet access and eliminating the digital divide. Combining unlicensed standards-based WiFi radios and Canopy system backhaul to support the cost-effective deployment of wide area broadband wireless. HotZone solutions offer remarkably efficient and cost-effective public access capabilities.
The comprehensive portfolio of wi4 Mesh solutions also includes fixed and mobile coverage opportunities for private and dedicated public safety connectivity.
Join the Metro WiFi Revolution and contact us today to learn more about our Mesh Solutions portfolio.
Point-to-Point Solutions
Bridging the Wireless IP Chasm
Delivering high-speed data from Point A to Point B has never been easier. With the Motorola Point-to-Point (PTP) wireless Ethernet bridges, enterprises, carriers, ISPs and municipalities can easily connect expansive IP networks to form a cohesive system. Delivering an outstanding ROI and superior performance, the point-to-point solutions possess exceptional interference mitigation techniques, multiple layers of security and can transmit across long distances, over water or around obstacles.
With a small form factor that’s easy to install and maintain, the Motorola point-to-point bridges can support a wide variety of demanding applications, including:
- Handling last-mile and heavy-duty backhaul traffic
- Connecting networks in a campus setting and communication between buildings
- Deploying emergency services
- Supporting special operations and events
Boasting ease of use, fast deployment and remote management, the portfolio is available in the PTP 100 Series, PTP 400 Series & PTP 600 Series to meet a variety of connectivity challenges.
PTP 100 Series
(Formerly Canopy 10 & 20 Mbps Backhaul) Makes use of Motorola’s proprietary modulation scheme to deliver high-speed bandwidth across distances of up to 35 miles (56 kilometers). These solutions support both DES and AES for enhanced security and are uniquely suited for delivering consistent throughput in Line-of-Sight (LoS) configurations. The PTP 100 Series is available in a broad range of frequencies (2.4, 5.1, 5.2, 5.4 and 5.8 GHz).
PTP 400 & 600 Series
(Formerly the Canopy 30, 60, 150 & 300 Mbps Backhaul)
These solutions enable users to achieve greater throughput and reach longer distances in LoS environments as well as establish reliable links in challenging near-LoS and Non-LoS conditions. Spanning distances of up to 124 miles (200 kilometers), Motorola’s PTP 400 and 600 Series wireless Ethernet bridges can deliver 99.999% availability in even the most challenging environments and feature:
- Dynamic frequency selection, which automatically changes channels to avoid interference and combat link fading without user intervention.
- Adaptive modulation to ensure maximum throughput optimized for the radio path even as path characteristics change.
- Built-in security protection via a complex proprietary signal with scrambling applied
- Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) coding to reduce fade margin regardless of obstacles in the path.
Powerline LV Solution
Where There's Electricity Let There Be Broadband
Imagine a world where high-speed Internet access could be obtained by simply plugging your computer into a power outlet equipped with a modem. Where multi-dwelling units such as apartment buildings and business offices can easily provide broadband services to their tenants simply and cost-effectively. Where utility companies can monitor the health and operation of their network while reaching out to residential customers already served by the power grid with broadband services.
Imagination is no longer required. Motorola’s Broadband over Power Line (BPL) product portfolio is a reality. It combines radio, Ethernet, networking, HomePlug™ and modem technologies to deliver high-speed data over existing power lines.
An innovative solution, Powerline MU enables service providers, building owners and businesses to transform a building’s internal electrical system into a powerful communications network. Powerline MU uses Canopy Access Points and Subscriber Modules to send signals to a Powerline MU Gateway. The Gateway then injects the signal directly into the electrical lines. For broadband access, subscribers simply plug their computer or router into the Powerline Modem. Since the Gateway is located in the building’s electrical distribution area, coordination with the electric utility is not typically needed. A licensed electrician is required for gateway installation. Click here to see how the system works.
Designed for utilities, Powerline LV is integrated with Motorola's Canopy wireless broadband platform and uses Canopy Access Points and Subscriber Modules to send, capture, and relay the wireless broadband signal to utility pole tops. A Powerline Bridge is then used to convert the signal from Ethernet to the HomePlug protocol. The Internet signal is delivered, via standard electric wires, to outlets throughout a user’s home. Subscribers receive the connection by plugging the Powerline Modem into a standard wall outlet. The Motorola Powerline LV solution was designed to deliver reliable, cost-effective performance while mitigating interference to and from nearby spectrum users. By using only the low voltage wires, system maintenance and deployment time is low and worker safety is greatly enhanced. Click here to see how the system works.
Video Surveillance
IP-Based Video Surveillance Solutions: Seeing is Protecting
IP-based video surveillance is revolutionizing the way organizations, municipalities and institutions are protecting their property, personnel and proprietary assets. Motorola’s proven Canopy® wireless technology helps you and your customers join the revolution. Compared to analog or hybrid systems, IP-based solutions provide a number of crucial advantages, including:
- Real-Time Situational Awareness and Response
- Remote Monitoring and Accessibility
- Faster, Lower Cost Deployment
- Leverage the Existing Networks
- Maximize the Benefits of Smart Cameras and Software
- Optimized ROI
- Digital Image Encryption for Security Purposes
The Canopy platform—part of the MOTOwi4™ portfolio of wireless broadband solutions—serves as a cost-effective, reliable backbone infrastructure for transporting any type of video, sound or data IP surveillance traffic. The Canopy system offers:
- Globally Proven Reliability
- Configuration Flexibility
- Analog and Hybrid System Integration
- Superior Scalability
- Faster, Simpler Deployment
- Multiple Layers of Network Security
- Efficient Bandwidth Management
- Exceptional Affordability
- Motorola Wireless Expertise and Support
Educational Solutions
Beyond Elementary: Motorola's Enhanced Wireless Broadband Solutions for Education
Motorola’s MOTOwi4™ portfolio of wireless broadband solutions is earning high marks worldwide for our powerful, yet affordable high-speed education solutions. Our experience ranges from implementing the world’s first nationwide school network (Macedonia Connects) to enabling K-12 and higher education environments of all types and sizes to quickly meet the growing demand for high-speed services.
- Connectivity. Motorola’s MOTOwi4 solutions make it easier, faster and more affordable to provide students and faculty with broadband Internet access from virtually everywhere on-and-off campus or throughout a school district. Our high-speed wireless networks help enhance the learning experience and improve communications between faculty, students, parents and staff.
- Collaboration. In today’s more open and interactive learning environment, faculty and students are using the Internet more often and more creatively. Motorola wireless broadband networks greatly extend the geographical reach of education, and facilitate interactivity and collaboration through faster access to research, online library repositories, learning portals, course management systems, and much more.
- Network Security. Through DES and AES over-the-air encryption standards, Motorola’s broadband systems help individual schools, school districts and colleges and universities create and maintain the high levels of security that support and protect the dual educational requirements of open creation and information sharing.
- Campus and School Safety. In today’s ever-changing world, personal safety, premise and property protection, data center security and public safety are among every educational environment’s highest priorities. In addition to providing ubiquitous access, Motorola’s high-speed wireless networks enable state-of-the-art IP-based video surveillance capabilities for improved facility and campus security and enhanced personal safety for students, faculty and staff.
Industry Leading Technology Portfolio
Motorola’s MOTOwi4™ portfolio of next-generation wireless broadband solutions leads the industry in breadth and depth. MOTOwi4 technology includes the Canopy® wireless broadband platform, our high-speed point-to-point solutions and innovative Mesh products such as HotZone Duo and of course our newly introduced Powerline MU Broadband Over Powerline (BPL). All of these products boast:
- Proven reliability
- Exceptionally affordable entry and expansion costs
- Faster, simpler deployment and installation
- Configuration flexibility
- High performance and interference resistance
- Bandwidth management and traffic prioritization
- Network security for safer e-learning
- Video surveillance for facility and campus safety
For more information about Motorola’s portfolio of advanced broadband solutions for both K-12 and higher education environments, contact your Motorola reseller at 1.800.489.1759.
The Canopy Advantage™ Platform
The Canopy Advantage platform is the next generation of Motorola's wireless broadband access infrastructure. With this new platform, Canopy equipment users can simultaneously enjoy the strengths of the original Canopy product coupled with dramatic improvements in throughput and latency. Motorola is actively engaged with the WiMAX Forum in the development of profiles for both licensed and unlicensed frequencies. It is Motorola’s vision to ultimately enable Canopy users to enjoy the benefits of WiMAX in the unlicensed frequency band as these capabilities become available.
With the Canopy Advantage platform, broadband providers can now offer premium services wirelessly (such as VoIP and video) as an alternative or extension to DSL or T1/E1 services. Private network operators can support distance learning, video conferencing or high-speed data transfer securely and at a fraction of the cost of subscribing to traditional wired services.
The Canopy Advantage platform is built on the field proven Canopy system and includes the high level of interference tolerance, scalability, signal reliability and ease of installation inherent in all Canopy equipment. Building on these strengths, the Canopy Advantage platform provides the following enhancements:
- Higher Performance: Effectively reduces latency by one-third (from approximately 20 milliseconds to 5 to 7 milliseconds)
- Faster Speeds: Essentially doubles throughput of a Canopy subscriber module (SM). It delivers data rates in excess of today's DSL and cable networks of 7 Mbps. With the new Canopy Advantage SM, the throughput doubles yet again to 14 Mbps to a single user.
- True Quality of Service: Enables operators to provide differentiated levels of service using Committed Information Rate (CIR) and Maximum Information Rate (MIR)
- Comprehensive Multi-Services Platform: An ATM frame structure uses small frame sizes which reduce retransmission times and provides for low latency - a critical component for delivering high quality services such as VoIP and online gaming.
- Seamless Integration: All subscriber modules currently in the field can easily be upgraded via software download, and benefit from the Advantage platform when used with a Canopy Advantage Access Point (AP).
The Canopy Advantage platform provides protection for your investment by providing compatibility with your existing network and by being upgradeable to meet future performance requirements. And, of course, customers can take advantage of Motorola's world-class professional services and comprehensive operations, administration, maintenance & performance system, providing the key element management system tools essential to running a well-performing network.
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