Harris Stratex Innovation Firsts

2000s

• First Carrier Ethernet platform with layer 2 functionality—still the only system to achieve Metro Ethernet Forum Certifications 9 & 14
• First true IP wireless high-capacity transmission
• First multi-service platform to support 311 Mbps in a single radio
• First integrated add/drop and cross-connect functionality with ring protection capability
• First single-platform, advanced nodal wireless system
• First Paperless Chart Recorder (PCR), eliminating the need for external equipment and greatly simplifying equipment fault location
• First element management system (EMS) to include full circuit provisioning
• First high-capacity and ultra-high-capacity transport product
• First high-capacity access product
• First Super-PDH capacity migration with data + voice liquid bandwidth assignment
• First software programmable radio to scale from PDH to SDH
• First secure network management features

1990s

• First worldwide TDMA – IS136 400 Band Wireless Local Loop
• First TDMA – IS136 subscriber terminal
• First split mount, high capacity STM-1/OC-3 microwave radio, covering the 6 to 38 GHz bands
• First shipment of MegaStar 1:N system equipped with the unique, patented Dispersion Sensing IF Combiner
• First 128 QAM SDH short-haul radio
• First fully meshed VSAT network system in the world
• First microwave radio to incorporate a full 64 Kbps digital cross connect
• First shipment of flat antenna commercial microwave radio
• First shipment of true SONET microwave radios
• First shipment of ATM over microwave radio
• First 38 GHz millimeter-wave radio system, enabling explosive growth of GSM mobile in Europe

1980s

• First 23 GHz microwave radio
• Fist PDH microwave radio to include an integrated multiplexer
• First to apply switched capacitor filtering for analog multiplexing
• First embedded network management system available in a microwave radio system
• First to commercialize 10 GHz light-density radios
• Solution provider for the first commercial cellular system in North America
• First to introduce advanced digital microwave radios using 16 QAM modulation

1970s

• First bit-by-bit protection scheme for digital multiplexers
• First to introduce portable 4 GHz synthesized microwave radios

1960s

• First use of gun diode oscillators
• First to introduce carrier leak signaling