In recent years, OFDMA based BWA networks were commercially deployed in masses
providing broad band internet wireless access to millions of subscribers. The two most
popular standards used for BWA deployments are the veteran 802.16e (WiMAX) and
the emerging LTE. Driving this growing market is the availability of a wide range of low
cost CPE devices including laptop dongles, smart-phones and tablets.
In parallel to this increasing popularity of wireless deployments, governments and
public safety agencies are hoping to deploy the same technology for better crisis
management that will simply save lives in critical times.
System vendors that traditionally offered a solution for commercial deployments are
now facing a new challenge – adopting the civil technology to various homeland
security applications.
In this paper we take a closer look at various BWA HLS applications and their implementation. Our primary focus is to understand the capabilities required from these applications and to show how flexibility and controllability of system components can help address these requirements. We will demonstrate several implementations of end-to-end solutions based on Runcom’s product line and shed some light on the technology specific techniques used to enable these solution.