Private and enterprise networks require self-contained, fast, and reliable communications between buildings and facilities that are co-located or distributed throughout a city or metropolitan area. As business and information technology advances, the amount and variety of data traffic required continues to grow at a rapid pace. The diverse transmission needs for these networks range from low speed SCADA and voice, to video broadcasting, to high-speed WAN traffic. Finding a single data provider to supply all the needed connectivity is practically impossible. As a result, the opportunity to privately own the transmission infrastructure is an attractive and financially sound alternative.

These Enterprise and Private networks are represented by a wide variety of applications. Public utilities (such as oil, gas, and power), railroad, university, health authorities, private business, and local or state government entities such as school districts and public safety are all traditional users of private microwave networks. In addition, digital broadcasting has begun to expand in recent years and is expected to converge with Internet services to provide new opportunities for interactive cable television and bundled high-speed internet services.

Flexible Configurations
The ability to handle the wide range of data traffic types and the ability to move from a lower capacity to higher capacity as needed is a must for private network operators.
All MNI point-to-point microwave products are compatible with transport traditional voice (E1/T1) as well as IP, ATM, and SDH/SONET traffic. The unique design of each product allows a mix-and-match of data types and speeds not typically found in other products. The plug-in modular design allows for easy upgrades with minimal downtime.

For short distance, and typically lower data rate applications, MNI offers the Proteus AMT L-Series product line. L-Series is ideal for last-mile access while still offering greater capacity and flexibility than most radios in its class. Using adaptive modulation and a flexible architecture, Proteus AMT L-Series operates in the 6-38 GHz bands with capacities starting from 2 x T1/E1 up to 50 Mbps. This includes many combinations of circuit switched data up to 16 x T1/E1s, 1 x DS3/E3, in addition to 50 Mbps Ethernet IP and other narrowband IP rates

For both long distance and higher capacity infrastructure requirements or shorter-length intra-city applications, MNI offers the highly flexible Proteus AMT M-Series product line.

M-Series operates in either all-indoor configurations at 6, 7, 8, and 11 GHz or in split-mount configurations from 6 to 38 GHz. Using 2 Line Interface Module (LIM) bays, each radio offers a choice of data rates from 2 to 190 Mbps in any combination of nxDS1/E1, nxDS3/E3, SONET/SDH, or VLAN Ethernet. Fully-protected Hot-Standby configurations with errorless switching are also available for data-critical applications.

Our Dynamic Payload Mapping^TM (DPM) suite of features allows detailed data provisioning and routing with options such as drop-insert, DS1/E1 loop protection, and internal cross-connect. DPM also allows the user to easily change the allocation of data as needed to achieve the desired distribution of DS1/E1, DS3/E3, and Ethernet traffic.

Whatever the network need, MNI has a cost-effective, reliable solution.