TeraMax™

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Powerful • Flexible • Scalable • Built for the Outdoors • Enabling Public Safety Applications

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Description

TeraMax™ (previously Marquee) broadband wireless base stations and clients are a powerful answer for customers seeking a reliable, high-speed connectivity solution. The TeraMax™ line is the premium offering by Terabeam Wireless, which provides the best features and wireless reach in the business by combining industry leading outdoor point-to-point and point-to-multipoint optimized software with its patented amplifier technology. A member of the TeraMax™ series, the MBS49HEXN/MCL49HEXN is specifically designed with Public Safety applications in mind, taking advantage of the uncluttered spectrum allocated by the FCC. TeraMax™ products are ideally suited for a variety of applications from constructing public and private enterprise building-to-building wireless networks to providing far-reaching, high-speed wireless access.

Best of all, the TeraMax™ series empowers you to quickly construct your own broadband wireless network without any dependence on the local wired communications infrastructure. No more connection delays waiting for your service to be established. No more recurring charges or long-term service contracts. In as little as a few hours you can install a TeraMax™ solution connecting buildings across the street or across a city, at distances of up to 30 miles apart and more.

Powerful

TeraMax™ offers an unprecedented combination of:

• over-the-air data rate of 36 Mbps maximum¹
• range in excess of 30 miles
• near-line-of-sight communication (utilizing orthogonal frequency division multiplexing).

Flexible

TeraMax™ is available in:

• versions operating at various license-free (5.8 GHz) and licensed (4.9 GHz) frequency bands
• in point-to-point or point-to-multipoint configurations and
• with choices of enclosures and antennas.

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Scalable

Base stations can be deployed to serve hundreds of clients. For example, one base location can be configured to serve over 300 simultaneous users while distributing 80 Mbps of cumulative data. The recommended configuration would be five co-located base stations, each using one of five available non-overlapping channels. In addition, the award-winning TurboCell® protocol eliminates hidden node problems or interference between clients, thus maintaining throughput as clients are added to the network.

Built For the Outdoors

The TeraMax™ Series has been engineered from the ground up to withstand conditions in the outdoors and some of the harshest environments. The high gloss white finish and cast aluminum enclosure minimize solar heat absorption, allowing uninterrupted operation in the world’s hottest regions.

Enabling Public Safety Applications

The TeraMax™ MBS49HEXN/MCL49HEXN, utilizing the first FCC-certified 4.9 GHz radio, allows public safety organizations to take advantage of spectrum dedicated by the FCC for their use.

Additional Features

Adaptive Dynamic Polling

In traditional 802.11 wireless networks, multiple clients transmitting data to a base station simultaneously will cause traffic collisions, necessitating retransmissions and reducing throughput. TeraMax™ base stations coordinate traffic flow from the clients through a polling mechanism which constantly adapts itself based on client traffic.

Packet Aggregation

TeraMax™ also increases throughput by aggregating smaller packets into a super-packet prior to transmission, thus making more efficient use of spectrum.

Bandwidth Management at the Client

By managing bandwidth at the subscriber unit rather than centrally, the system preserves precious spectrum and eliminates the need for an external bandwidth manager.

Enhanced Security

TeraMax™ provides two-way authentication between the client and the base, as well as AES, DES, Blowfish and WEP+ encryption.

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Product Offering

Base Stations

TeraMax™ base stations are designed to operate as the centerpiece for large, high-performance broadband wireless networks. A powerful combination of features, unique to TeraMax™ including the TurboCell® polling protocol, bandwidth shaping and scalability, provide customers with the foundation for a reliable point-to-multipoint network.

Capable of connecting up to 64 remote locations, each base station offers complete bandwidth management on a per remote location basis, full RADIUS support, and TurboCell®, a highly optimized adaptive dynamic polling algorithm that overcomes the problems inherent in outdoor wireless networks.

A TeraMax™ base station also has the ability to support fully bridged networks with enhanced features such as advanced protocol filtering, as well as fully routed networks with RIP II routing.

TeraMax™ base stations are available as outdoor mounted units and are housed in a rugged, weatherproof cast aluminum enclosure. Connected to your network by up to 300 feet of outdoor Ethernet cable, which also supplies power to the base station via Power over Ethernet, an outdoor mounted TeraMax™ base station eliminates the need for the installation of bulky, expensive RF cable between the building and base station and maximizes the radio transmit power fed to the base antenna.

All TeraMax™ base stations come bundled with the Configurator, a centralized SNMP based management software. Using the Configurator GUI, network administrators quickly and easily can configure, test, and monitor their entire TeraMax™ network without having to purchase additional test equipment or network management software.

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Broadband Wireless Clients

TeraMax™ client devices act as the end points in a wireless point-to-multipoint network. By allowing remote locations to attach to a main network, or individual clients such as in a public safety vehicle or a business or residential customer to obtain network or Internet access, TeraMax™ clients can be used for a wide variety of applications.

Available as a 23 dBi embedded antenna system or in an outdoor mounted rugged enclosure with attached flat panel antenna, TeraMax™ clients are designed to meet the need of corporate, small business and individual users. Each client supports an unlimited number of local users while including powerful features including DHCP (both Client and Server), NAT, RADIUS Authentication and Accounting, and Firewall.

TeraMax™ clients can be configured locally or remotely using the Configurator Management software bundled with each system. Network administrators will enjoy the ability to provision addressing, control bandwidth, and monitor or test RF performance without having to travel to each remote location.

Rapid P-P Bridge Kit

The Terabeam Wireless Rapid P-P includes everything you need to quickly and easily install a point-to-point wireless communications link. Ideally suited for a building-to-building backbone, or as backhaul to a remote wireless base station, Rapid P-P delivers the bandwidth and distance required to supercharge your network. In just a few hours, you can install a broadband wireless link spanning over 30 miles between locations.

Package contents include: (2) Rapid P-P Ethernet bridges, (2) High gain antennas, (2) PoE Injectors, (2) Switching power supplies, (2) RF Patch cables, (2) Power cables, and User CD containing Configurator Management Software

¹ The current throughput of an Flat Panel enclosure configured as a client in a P-MP configuration is 12 Mbps. Actual throughput varies according to the specifications of the antenna used and the conditions of the terrain.

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Documentation

TeraMax™ Series

All of the documents below are in Adobe Acrobat (PDF Document) format. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat, you can download it for free from Adobe. All of the documents below include information on the 2.4, 4.9, and 5.8 GHz Models.

• Specification sheet for the TeraMax™ Point to Multipoint Series
• Specification sheet for the TeraMax™ Point to Point Series

Purchasing Information

Point to Multipoint Systems (P-MP)

Point to Point Systems (P-P)

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Related Products

Here are some products that go with the TeraMax™ Series or can enhance it's performance on your network in some way.

• TurboCell® — The Software enhancing the outdoor networking cap abilities of TeraMax™
• Bandwidth Control Unit (BCU) — to control the amount of bandwidth going to the clients

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