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3.3 Product Description

This User Manual is specifically written for the PTP 400 Series of point-to-point broadband
wireless solutions. The PTP 400 Series Bridge has been developed to provide Point-to-Point
data connectivity via a 4.9 GHz, 5.4 GHz or 5.8 GHz wireless Ethernet bridge operating at
broadband data rates. The PTP 400 Series Bridge is aimed at a wide range of applications.
An example application is an enterprise that has a requirement to connect together the Local
Area Network (LAN) of two or more buildings as shown in Figure 1.
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Mains
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Building 1 Building 2
Figure 1 - Typical PTP 400 Series Bridge Deployment
The PTP 400 Series Bridge offers true non-line-of-sight (NLOS) operation by using a
combination of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) modulation and Multiple-In
Multiple-Out (MIMO) techniques. These technologies enable the PTP 400 Series Bridge to
drive through foliage and around buildings to such an extent that almost universal coverage
can be expected at short range.
A PTP 400 Series Bridge system consists of a pair of identical devices that are deployed one
at each end of the link. At installation, the user sets up one unit as the Master and the other
as the Slave. Either unit can be configured as master or slave.