NEC Corporation announced the global launch of its iPASOLINK 100A and 200A mobile backhaul and small cell solutions. These new 6-42Ghz frequency additions NEC's comprehensive converged wireless and optical iPASOLINK family help to reduce mobile operators' spectrum lease and power costs and enhance their customers' experience of using a wide range of mobile data services. The latest products, along with NEC's previously introduced All Outdoor Radio lineup, support high modulation schemes up to 2048 QAM for native Ethernet and TDM transmission enabling them to transport up to 40% more data than previous 256QAM systems. With this massive leap forward in spectral efficiency, mobile network operators can transport more traffic using a single radio unit rather than installing multiple microwave systems and antennae and incurring multiple spectrum and tower lease costs at each site on an annual basis.

The iPASOLINK 100A and 200A help mobile network operators boost network capacity to keep pace with ever rising use of mobile data, including consumer video services and enterprise apps used by mobile workers. They can be used to backhaul traffic in various circumstances from small cells to an aggregation point and transport it via the backbone in milliseconds to the operator's core network. The products feature a compact and light Indoor Unit making them easy to install.

A new fanless "free air" cooling system and highly efficient digital processing and RF technologies reduce power usage and maintenance requirements. Additional energy savings of around 20% have been made in the Outdoor Unit with its Adaptive Modulation Radio and Automatic Transmit Power Control capabilities. It's for these reasons that NEC's iPASOLNK with 2048QAM high modulation capacity has already been selected by numerous telecom carries around the world and over 10,000 systems are already in the field globally.

NEC is continuing to aim to provide the most advanced and most comprehensive range of mobile backhaul solutions on the market.