4RF Limited

Aprisa XE
 In brief

Company:
Established by radio experts and headquartered in New
Zealand, with staff around the world
Design and manufacture wireless products for utility and
private network applications
Products deployed and supported in over 120 countries
on six continents, exporting 95% of production
Products: Aprisa XE point-to-point radio and Aprisa SR
point-to-multipoint radio
What 4RF does:
Own the intellectual property and carry out all research
and development
System engineering and manufacturing
Logistics, post-sales customer support, training,
installation

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 Applications and markets: Aprisa XE

The Aprisa XE radio is used for a range of applications:

Mobile cellular, fixed wireless and WiMAX backhaul
Rural broadband, telephony and DSL extension
Private networks and mobile radio backhaul
Radio and television transmitter linkage
Remote monitoring, control and SCADA

Across a huge range of markets:

Utilities
Oil and gas companies
Telecommunications operators
Private, public and government businesses
Broadcasters
Emergency and aid, military and security organisations
Transport operators

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4RF: a worldwide presence
company and customer credentials
 Where our equipment is used

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 Customer credentials: oil and gas, natural resources

Oil and gas, natural resources

BHP Billiton Oil and Natural Gas Corporation India (India)

British Gas OMV

Cairn Energy (India) PDVSA (Venezuela)

Chevron PetroSA (South Africa)

Dubai Petroleum (UAE) PetroEcuador (Ecuador)

Ecopetrol (Colombia) Petronas (Malaysia)

ENI PetroVietnam (Vietnam)

Exxon Mobil Rio Tinto

Fortescue Mining Group (Australia) Santos (Australia)

Foxtrot International (Cote d'Ivoire) Shell

Iraqi State Company for Oil Projects (Iraq) Sonangol (Angola)

Lihir Gold (PNG) Stratos Offshore Services Co (USA)

North & South Oil Companies (Iraq) Terasen Gas (Canada)

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 Customer credentials: utilities

Utilities

AltaLink (Canada) ENE (Angola) NamPower (Namibia)

Atco Electric (Canada) EVN (Austria) PacifiCorp (USA)

Bonneville Power Administration (USA) ESB (Ireland) PG&E (USA)

Saudi Electric Company (S.
Canal de Isabel II (Spain) Elektro Gorenjska (Slovenia)
Arabia)
CE Electric (UK) Enbridge Energy (USA) Statkraft (Norway)

CELPE, CEAL, CHESF, Light, Eletrobras (Brazil) Endesa (Spain) TransCanada Pipeline (Canada)

CRE (Bolivia) Energie AG (Austria) TransGrid (Australia)

Dubai Supply Authority (UAE) Eskom (South Africa) Transpower (New Zealand)

E.ON Kainuun Shkverkko (Finland) Iberdrola (Spain) Union Fenosa (Spain)

EDF / RTE (France) Kengen (Kenya) Western Power (Australia)

EDM (Mozambique) Meralco (Philippines) Zesco (Zambia)

EDP (Portugal)

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 Customer credentials: telecommunications operators

Fixed & Mobile operators

Bell Canada (Canada) Movicel (Angola) Telecom Services Kiribati (Kiribati)

British Telecom (UK) MTC Namibia (Namibia) Telecom Vanuatu (Vanuatu)

Communications Authority of Thailand Oi Telecom (Brazil) Telefonica Colombia (Colombia)

Claro (Argentina) OPT (Tahiti) Telikom (Papua New Guinea)

Comcel (Columbia) Sibir Telecom (Russia) Tonga Communications Corporation

Dhiraagu (Maldives) Smart (Philippines) TOT (Thailand)

Globe Telecom (Philippines) Solomon Telekom (Solomon Islands) Vivo (Brazil)

Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Co. Sri Lanka Telecom Vodafone (DRC)

KPN (Netherlands) TDM (Mozambique) Wataniya (Maldives)

MILA (Iceland) Telecom Fiji

Millicom (Paraguay) Telecom Namibia (Namibia)

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 Customer credentials: United Nations and military*

United Nations missions Military

Afghanistan Iraq Australia Italy

Burundi Israel Belgium Kazakhstan

Chad Italy Canada Kenya

Cote dIvoire Lebanon Colombia Namibia

Democratic Republic of Congo Liberia Ecuador Saudi Arabia

Georgia Sierra Leone Equatorial Guinea Slovenia

Morocco Sudan Hungary South Africa

Haiti Timor-Leste Panama Sweden

Nepal Western Sahara India Thailand

Ireland UAE

* plus many more commercially confidential deployments

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 Customer credentials: transport

Road and rail Air and sea

Canadian National Rail Airways New Zealand

Direction Departementale de LEquipment (France) Directorate General Civil Aviation of Indonesia

Ferromex (Mexico) European Space Agency

Kansas City Southern (Mexico) Flemish Government (Belgium)

Ontrack (New Zealand) IATA

PT Kereta API (Indonesia rail network) Kenya Airways

Queensland Rail Khota Bharu Airport (Malaysia)

Saudi Railways Oman Airports

Transtel (South Africa) Port Authority of Thailand

Union Pacific (USA) Royal Jordanian Airlines (Jordan)

Washington State Department of Transportation Tribhuvan Airport (Nepal)

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The product: Aprisa XE
connecting further connecting faster
 Solution vision

The Aprisa XE is a wireless point-to-point

link distance-engineered for demanding
applications.
It supports distances of up to 250 km (155
miles), with capacity of up to 65 Mbit/s for
both access and transport applications.
The Aprisa XE one-box solution combines
an IP radio, digital and analogue
multiplexer and digital cross-connect. Its
comprehensive range of interfaces means
it can be used across a huge range of
industries and applications, supporting all
voice, data and IP requirements.

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 Product power

These impressive features combine to make Unbeatable price-performance

the Aprisa XE the industrys unbeaten price- Long range
performance leader, with a low total cost of
ownership. High capacity

Combined with pre- and post-sales support Carrier-class availability

from 4RF, this feature list demonstrates why Flexible interfaces
the Aprisa XE platform has been chosen by
Cost-effective
private and public organisations in more than
120 countries around the world to power their Reliable
communications. Easy installation and maintenance

Rugged and robust

Interference-free

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 Key product specifications and features
Specification Aprisa XE
Frequency bands 300 MHz to 2700 MHz
Modulation QPSK to 128 QAM
Capacity 72 kbit/s to 65 Mbit/s
Channel sizes 25 kHz to 14 MHz
Interfaces E1 / T1 framed & unframed
2-Wire FXO / FXS
4-Wire E&M
V.24
High-speed synchronous X.21
/ V.35 / RS-449 / RS-530
10 / 100Base-T
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The Aprisa XE supports ten sub-3GHz licensed
spectrum bands and many channel sizes, for
maximum deployment flexibility.
It provides a comprehensive range of interfaces,
with the required configuration easily selected
using the modularly-constructed multiplexer.
The Aprisa XE is easily managed and integrated
with other network management applications via
its SNMP-based element manager application.
Hitless Space Diversity and Monitored Hot
Standby options mean the Aprisa XE can be
configured for redundancy, and the number of
interfaces can be increased with an expansion
shelf.
Customers and applications
using the Aprisa XE in the real world
 Overview

The Aprisa XE is used wherever a reliable, high

capacity communications link is needed.
Whether to bypass existing infrastructure,
replace expensive satellite services or because
its quite simply the only solution that can
handle the distance, terrain or climate, the
Aprisa XE goes where other products simply
cannot.
Fixed, mobile and FWA telcos
Utilities and natural resources
Public safety, peacekeeping, military
Transport, enterprises, broadcasters

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 Oil and gas companies

The link back to shore: guaranteed offshore connectivity, whatever the weather.
Rugged and robust, carrier-class availability, long range, and cost-effective: the Aprisa XE
provides mission-critical communications to large moving structures in inhospitable
locations many miles offshore, despite highly variable atmospheric conditions.
A range of bandwidth-hungry applications is supported, including remote monitoring and
control, data transfer, broadband web, e-mail and voice services.

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 Utilities

Keep your communications flowing: for electric, water and gas utilities.
Reliable and secure, carrier-class availability, cost-effective and with flexible interfaces,
the Aprisa XE is used to safely monitor, control and communicate with all field assets,
providing simultaneous support for all analogue and digital voice, data and IP traffic.
The Aprisa XE is used for a range of applications including SCADA, telemetry,
teleprotection, signalling, telephone, mobile radio, LAN, VoIP and video.

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 Pipeline monitoring

Monitoring and control in rural and remote

areas: security and safety are essential.
Robust and reliable, carrier-class
availability, and flexible interfaces: the
Aprisa XE makes it easy for operators to
monitor and control rural and remote
pipelines safely and cost effectively.
The problems of long distance and
inhospitable terrain are effortlessly
overcome and dependence on vulnerable
and expensive fixed line infrastructure is
reduced.

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 Fixed telecommunications operators

Increase telecommunications coverage:

maximum profits.
Long range, carrier-class availability,
high capacity and flexible interfaces: the
Aprisa XE makes it easy for operators to
provide broadband and telephony
services to rural and remote
communities with an effortless one hop
link over distances of up to 250 km (155
miles).
Eliminating dependence on satellite or
bypassing high frequency microwave
links, the Aprisa XE provides a future-
proof platform for all voice, data and IP
applications.

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 Mobile telecommunications operators

Rapid, risk-free, network expansion and

subscriber growth: maximum profits.
Long range, high capacity, carrier-class
availability and cost-effective: the Aprisa
XE makes it possible to profitably extend
mobile coverage into rural and remote
areas, without compromising quality of
service.
The Aprisa XE is ideal for replacing leased
lines from incumbent operators.
The Aprisa XE can also backhaul traffic
from WiMAX or proprietary fixed wireless
access networks.

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 Fixed wireless and WiMAX telecommunications operators

Increased wireless broadband coverage:

maximum profits.
High capacity, carrier-class availability,
easy installation and maintenance and
long range: the Aprisa XE enables rapid
broadband wireless network expansion to
rural and remote areas, without
compromising the business case.
Eliminating dependence on leased lines
from incumbent operators, a single Aprisa
XE link provides sufficient capacity to
backhaul traffic from a rural community.

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 Enterprises

Unite your business, wirelessly.

Cost-effective, easy installation and
maintenance, reliable and secure, and
with flexible interfaces, the Aprisa XE
effortlessly links business locations, even
over long distances, with seamless
management alongside existing IT and
communications infrastructure.
Ideal for private enterprises, governments,
hospitals, universities and schools, the
Aprisa XE makes the connection without
breaking the bank, for all voice, data and
IP requirements.

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 Transport operators

Keep your communications moving.

Reliable and secure, long range, easy
installation and maintenance, flexible
interfaces: the Aprisa XE provides safe
communications for road, rail, air and
maritime, for signalling, control and
ticketing data, backhaul of private radio,
and telephony and Internet access.
The problems of long distances and
challenging terrains are effortlessly
overcome, for wide area voice and data
communications.

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More about the Aprisa XE benefits
why the platform achieves its price-performance
 Aprisa XE benefits

Unbeatable price-performance

Long range

High capacity

Carrier-class availability

Flexible interfaces

Cost-effective

Reliable

Easy installation and maintenance

Rugged and robust

Interference-free

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 Long range

The Aprisa XE link has been distance

engineered, with superior system gain and
optimised receiver and transmitter
performance.
A single link can cover up to 250 km (155
miles), ideal for linking rural, remote or
offshore communities. With the Aprisa XE,
the need for additional repeater
infrastructure is eliminated, reducing
capital and operational expenditure.
The Aprisa XE can effortlessly overcome
the problems of over-water transmission,
environmental conditions and
topographical obstacles.

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 High capacity

The Aprisa XE, with its class-leading

spectral efficiency and up to 128 QAM
modulation, is perfect for bandwidth-
intensive applications.
A single link can provide up to 65 Mbit/s
capacity, dependent on channel size and
modulation used, sufficient for traffic
requirements both now and into the future.

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 Carrier-class availability

The five 9s availability of the Aprisa XE

makes it perfect for mission-critical
applications and for telecommunications
operators wishing to extend quality of
service guarantees to their customers.
This performance is underpinned by state
of the art forward error correction and low
latency.

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 Flexible interfaces

The Aprisa XE efficiently aggregates and transports IP, voice and data traffic, with its
modularly constructed multiplexer and in-built cross connect. Its one-box solution provides
eight customer-configurable interface slots, integrating legacy and todays traffic
requirements.

Type Interface Description

E1/T1 QJET Quad JET (E1, T1) with framed or unframed
Analogue DFXO Dual 2-Wire FXO with PCM/ADPCM and payphone

DFXS Dual 2-Wire FXS with PCM/ADPCM and payphone

Q4EM Quad 4-Wire E&M with PCM/ADPCM

Data QV24 Quad V.24 Serial Interface Card synchronous and asynchronous

HSS High-speed Synchronous Serial supporting X.21, V.35, RS-530 and RS-449

IP Ethernet 4-port Hub 10 / 100Base-T

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 Cost-effective

The Aprisa XE has a low total cost of

ownership and provides customers with a
rapid return on investment, as short as six
months.
It virtually eliminates operational
expenditure compared to satellite and
leased lines.
It minimises capital expenditure,
particularly compared to higher frequency
microwave, enabling customers to make
the best use of their IT and
communications budget.

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 Reliable

Even over long distances, the Aprisa XE

provides customers with industry-leading
reliability, enabling it to be used for even
the most mission-critical applications.
It can safely be used for private networks
and mobile radio traffic backhaul.
With its support for Monitored Hot Standby
and Hitless Space Diversity, the Aprisa XE
can be configured for redundancy if
required.

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 4RF reliability: superior performance comes as standard

The Aprisa XE reliability cannot be beaten. In 2008:

0.76% failure rate, compared to 4-5 % industry norm
With zero out-of-the-box failures
With an installed base approaching 10,000 links:
MTBF, based on returns to factory, is 95.72 years
Lifetime failure rate averages 1.2%
This performance is more remarkable considering the
harsh deployment conditions the Aprisa XE faces, from
radios bolted to mud brick walls, with daily sand storms
and no air conditioning, through to temperatures below
freezing.
4RF achieves this reliability because of its design
excellence, testing and quality assurance, and
commitment to continual improvement.

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 Easy installation and maintenance

The Aprisa XE is a single small form factor

box, with lightweight grid / Yagi antennas
and easy alignment. It is installed rapidly
and can be redeployed as needed.
Its Java-based element management
system supports easy drag and drop
cross-connect configuration of links and in-
built SNMP means it can be integrated
with other network management systems
as required.

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Thank you!