Installation Guide

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3 System Overview
The Venus platform employs Ondas Networks’ FullMAX technology
FullMAX is a multi‐cell, Point‐to‐Multipoint (PtMP) broadband wireless system based on the IEEE 802.16
standard with modifications to enable its operation in a wide range of frequencies and a wide range of
channel sizes. The system is used to establish a private, broadband wireless service for mission critical
industries. It supports both fixed and mobile applications.
The main characteristics of the FullMAX System include the following:
FullMAX employs HD-FDD or TDD framing to provide greater flexibility and to maximize spectrum
utilization.
FullMAX is capable of operating in any frequency band between 40 MHz and 6 GHz and in any channel
size between 12.5 kHz and 5 MHz. FullMAX can be configured to operate in a downlink to uplink ratio to
support symmetrical, asymmetrical and reverse asymmetrical applications.
The FullMAX system offers the private system operator wide area coverage by leveraging the following:
• High transmit power from both the Base Station and Remote Stations
• Exceptional receiver sensitivity
• Superior propagation due to the operation in narrower channel sizes and low band
frequencies
The FullMAX system offers excellent frequency utilization through the following capabilities:
• Adaptive Modulation and Coding per link in both the downlink and uplink
• Optimization of the downlink and uplink ratio for the user’s main applications. For
example, in the case of SCADA applications, the FullMAX frame is configured as reverse
asymmetrical, i.e., more bandwidth is allocated to the uplink than to the downlink.
• Modifications to the standard air interface protocol to minimize MAC layer overhead.
• Employ Band-AMC subcarrier allocation scheme in both uplink and downlink direction to
maximize the percentage of data transport subcarriers.
• Packet Header Suppression (PHS) with the following characteristics:
o Compressible header field values are learned automatically with no need for
manual configurations.
o Support for multiple compressible values for the same header fields. As a result,
PHS can be used even when the header fields are not constant.
FullMAX includes a versatile set of Quality of Service (QoS) tools that can optimize traffic performance for
each application and prioritize access to the available bandwidth according to the operator’s
requirements. QoS tools include various scheduling methods (e.g., Best Efforts and Unsolicited Grant
Service), service flows with various QoS parameters such as priority level, minimum and maximum traffic
rates, guaranteed delay, jitter, etc.