Wireless Broadband Mesh

Municipalities and large enterprise customers are deploying mesh networks to provide wireless broadband connections across cities or within campus environments. Today, these networks support many different types of applications, including video surveillance, meter reading and traffic control, and have demonstrated mesh networks' ability to deliver a compelling return on investment as well as enable new services.

Motorola's Mesh Wide Area Network (MWAN) product portfolio is embracing the power of ORLA, the Opportunistic Radio Link Adaptation, which is an improved element of Motorola's patented MeshConnex™ Routing Engine. The MeshConnex Routing Engine provides efficient routing, low hop latency, low routing overhead, high-speed handoffs and proven scalability. MeshConnex uses Motorola's patented Layer 2 routing technology to find and establish throughput-optimized connections.

ORLA Defined

The Opportunistic Radio Link Adaptation (ORLA) algorithm is a key decision-making element within MeshConnex™, designed to select data rates that will provide the best throughput. Instead of using local conditions to decide whether a data rate is acceptable or not, ORLA is designed to proactively probe other rates to determine if greater throughput is available. If these other rates do provide improved throughput, ORLA intelligently adjusts its selection tables to favor higher performance. ORLA provides improvements both on the client side of a mesh network as well as in the backhaul capabilities.

Motorola's comprehensive portfolio of reliable and cost-effective wireless broadband solutions together with our WLAN solutions provide and extend coverage both indoors and outdoors. The Motorola Wireless
Broadband portfolio offers high-speed Point-to-Point, Point-to-Multipoint, Mesh, Wi-Fi and WiMAX networks that support data, voice and video communications, enabling a broad range of fixed and mobile applications for public and private systems. With Motorola's innovative software solutions, customers can design, deploy and manage a broadband network, maximizing uptime and reliability while lowering installation costs.