Today’s Heavy Wireless episode explores building sustainable and efficient backhaul networks with sponsor Ceragon Networks. We discuss the challenges of backhaul, the complementarity of wireless and fiber solutions, the frequencies and protocols used in wireless backhaul, and the concept of disaggregated routing. Our guests from Ceragon are Dani Kiryati, VP Product Marketing; and Erez Aviv, VP Products. We examine the challenges of building backhaul networks, use cases, Ceragon Networks’ hardware and software options, and examples of successful implementations. We also discuss Ceragon Networks’ involvement in the Telecom Infra Project and the market potential for disaggregated routers. Show Links: Ceragon Networks Ceragon Blog What Can You Gain from Disaggregated Cell Site Gateways (DCSG)? – Ceragon Networks Link Bonding with Open Routers – Improving Network Performance – Ceragon Networks Roundup of Open Router Use Cases – Ceragon Networks How Radio-Aware DCSGs Help Optimize 5G Networks (Whitepaper) – Ceragon Networks E-Band Millimeter Wave For The Telecom Market (Whitepaper) – Ceragon Networks @Ceragon – Ceragon on Twitter Ceragon on LinkedIn Ceragon on YouTube Ceragon on Facebook Erez Aviv on LinkedIn Dani Kiryati on LinkedIn Transcript: Host (00:00:00) – Hello. Welcome to Heavy Wireless. My name is Keith Parsons, and in this week’s episode, we have topic a special topic. And today’s topic is on building sustainable and highly efficient backhaul and routing networks. And we’ve got some special guests who will help explain that topic to us. And again, today is a sponsored episode with Ceragon networks. And I have with me Dani and Erez. Dani, can you give us a quick overview, a little elevator pitch, if you will, of what is Ceragon Networks? Speaker 1 (00:00:30) – So Ceragon is one of the known companies in the world, I would say, in Transport Solutions. So transport is our expertise and we have an emphasis on point to point wireless backhaul and open routing. Our customers are mostly service providers of all sizes from large mobile operators, all the way to small and medium ISPs and wireless ISPs. We also provide solutions to private networks in different verticals things like utilities, energy companies, government, defense, public safety, those kind of private networks. And you know, what we do for our customers in a nutshell is we help them deliver connectivity everywhere they need it.