MICROWAVE AND RADIO BASED SYSTEM

    Some people not aware of microwave radio dishes placed in some areas like towers or any buildings. Microwave operates in a frequency range of 300 Mhz to 300 Ghz and its size is about 1mm and 30 cm long. Before microwave used only in telephone transmission in order to help people in their communication. But now a days microwave evolved to many purposes, like what we have seen in some residences who are using microwave in their television set.

     There are many users of microwave system; one of this is the PCS or the cellular and Personal Communication Services industry. They uses microwave in order to improve their connections of components and for the expansion of their network. Microwave also can eliminate the monthly recurring charges. But microwave played in a very crucial role in the PCS industry if their systems use the 1.9 to 2.3 GHz frequency band. The users of this frequency band are the police, fire, electric utilities, and municipal organizations. To accommodate those users in a 2 GHz frequency band, a microwave was used to relocate the users in a new band as required by the FCC.

       Second user of microwave is the CAP market or the Competitive Access Providers. They offer a large distance access in their telephone service in order to support their customers but in the lower price. CAPs uses fiber optic in their connections but they also recognize the benefits using a microwave or wireless connection.

       Microwave use for radio and TV, we can now see the growing of digital services for televisions, like signal TV. They use microwave repeaters on the satellite to retransmit TV signals to the receiving stations. It will improve the reception of the picture and give many channels that can entertain the users.

       A laptop computer with a credit card size can now uses microwave to convert the messages into binary code for computer processing and convert back to microwave for transmission. It can be use as LAN in some areas like school campuses, airports and etc., microwave make this all possible.

      In using microwave always consider the bandwidth; use only the desire bandwidth that is enough to support your system. Remember that the higher the bandwidth that you are using the bigger the cost, that’s why don’t use bandwidth that is more than enough because some of this bandwidth would be wasted. You will notice if your bandwidth is enough if your data is keep moving and voice call coming is properly manage by your system.

    If you are using microwave you need to know if it is reliable or not because it can waste your time or even your money. Make sure that it is fast in terms of transmitting or receiving so that the delay during your work will be reduce.

Reference: Broadband Telecommunication handbook: second edition by Regis Bates.