Airvine University Video Series
Session 4 – Episode 2 (9:07 min.)
Welcome my name is David Sumi, I’m responsible for Marketing at Airvine and I am here with you for the next installment in Airvine University
Today we’ve got two chapters for the Airvine University and they both revolve around our tool the VineCalculator so what we’re going to talk about today is this tool that we’ve developed for you to you estimate how well the WaveCore or the WaveTunnel will work for you in your scenario and we’re going to show you brief demo of how to use it
We’ve discussed in other webinars and videos about the WaveTunnel and the WaveCore but just a quick reminder that the WaveTunnel was the first product released it is our 60 gigahertz product that gives you about a gigabit and a half and it’s designed to go down corters beam steer around corners and it also penetrates most indoor walls
The idea for the WaveTunnel is we’re trying to augment or improve your ethernet backbone capability – coupled with the WaveCore – the WaveCore was designed and brought into being to go through concrete so as we were deploying WaveTunnels in our customer buildings and throughout we kept running into concrete floors and walls and so we developed the WaveCore
When you combine these two products together you have a complete solution that can deliver multi-gigabit backbones throughout almost any floor plan any building anywhere
If you’d like to hear more about these two products and what they can do we have other chapters in Airvine University but let let’s continue to focus on what we’re here to talk about today the VineCalculator
The VineCalculator is available on our website if you go to airvine.com you click on the support Tab and you scroll down to the bottom you’ll see the VineCalculator
Click on the demo button and it’ll give you a choice of which product you want to use the VineCalculator for the WaveTunnel or the WaveCore and from there you can use this tool to get an idea of whether or not the deployment that you’re planning on is going to work
A brief reminder the WaveTunnel is a 60 gigahertz multi-radio product so on both sides of this box you have a radio and that’s how we can daisy chain and and string these units together over many many hundreds of meters if that’s what’s required, but we turn corners
It’s also used to go through those interior walls. so here we have our WaveTunnel here’s an actual deployment that we did in Chicago
Each of these floors has one two three four five WaveTunnels shooting down the corridor and as you can see the corridor is slightly bent so we deployed these in the same topology on all four floors
But before we did this this we wanted to have an idea how well is this going to work – enter the VineCalculator to demo WaveTunnel beam steering down corridors
So we want to determine whether this WaveTunnel is going to be able to go down that Corridor that we showed you and bend around that corner and will it give us the performance that we need and expect
As mentioned you go to the the Airvine support page you click on the VineCalculator demo and this is what you’re going to see
For this particular demo we’re going to choose the WaveTunnel so you can see little definitions of angles and direct rays and the distance, really what we want to put into this particular model is we’re going to say we’re going maybe maybe we’re doing 50 feet down that corridor in between WaveTunnel units so there we go
You can choose whatever Channel you want in the 60 gigahertz uh spectrum between 57 and 71 or Channel 3 because it’s in the middle
The first WaveTunnel unit is shooting straight out but the receive angle for the receiving WaveTunnel the next one in the line going around that bend is close to 30 degrees, we could even go as far as 35 degrees just estimating how how much of that angle
Now in this particular case we’re not going through any materials and we’ll use these on our next demo for the WaveTunnel but if we were going through walls we can choose the type of wall type of ceiling tile plywood glass we have standard thicknesses here which you can edit and you can change these
You can add more lines to this you could go through a drywall and a ply and a glass but again for this particular demo what we’re really trying to determine is that beam steering
How are we going to be able to do that beam steer down that corner and around that bend
So we’re all set up let’s go ahead and calculate click and guess what the link is good
It’d hardly be much of an Airvine University presentation if I showed you a link that didn’t work wouldn’t it
So there’s definitions of the results – what the green means you’ll either get a green a yellow or a red
Green is good yellow is problematic and red is it’s not going to work
If you really want more detail we can show where you can click on that button you can see power levels SNR as you can see the loss through the angles all kinds of gory RF details
For those that are interested you just look at the little green icon and you know you’re good
That’s the WaveTunnel going down corridors and bending around turns
So as you can see from the results of the calculator demo that we just went through this link in this connection is going to work in fact it’s going to work really well so you can have confidence as you deploy your WaveTunnels throughout this this building as we did that the system is going to work as designed
All right so the second thing the WaveTunnel does that we’d like to talk about here is it’s also capable of going through walls most interior walls and this is something nobody in the world has been able to do take 60 gigahertz and make it work non-line of sight
So in this scenario what we’re going to show is we have our WaveTunnels going down the corridor but you can see in the middle they’re going into a little IDF group and this means that we’re going to be going through a couple of sheetrock walls to make that connection as well as going off at an angle of about 30 degrees
So let’s go ahead move on and let’s actually show you with the VineCalculator on our website the WaveTunnel blasting through walls
Okay so we’ve shown you the demo about how the WaveTunnel can go down corridors and we we bent around that one bend it wasn’t too challenging but it was okay and we showed you how to use the VineCalculator it gives you the Assurance that, Yep this thing’s going to work the way you want to
But what about this second scenario that we’ve talked about we’re in that hotel we’re in that IDF closet and we’re shooting through two sheet rock walls
So once again here we are let’s just make this a little more challenging today let’s just make this 100 feet between WaveTunnel nodes we’ll keep the channel the same this time we’re really gonna bend this thing thing to closer to 45° the maximum angle that the WaveTunnel can beam steer, not only that standard drywall is 5/8 of an inch we’re going to do two drywalls which would be one and a quarter inches and again if I wanted to I could make this anything I want I could make this however thick I care to make it but in this particular scenario we’re showing that WaveTunnel in the IDF room going through the first sheet rock wall through the second sheet rock wall
And you know just for fun let’s go ahead and make this two that would be two and a half inches of drywall that we’re going through with WaveTunnel and drum roll please we click the calculate button and lo and behold it’s a good link
Not only is it a good link but you can see for those of you who are interested still a very healthy link margin of 16 DB you can see the SNR is quite strong and all all signals are good so this shows you when you want to deploy that WaveTunnel link that we just described this gives you the assurance that it’s going to work the way you want it to
So we’ve shown you both the WaveTunnel and the WaveCore in operation we’ve shown you how the VineCalculator can be used in conjunction with these products so that you have an idea as to the performance and how well these products are going to work for your particular installation
Thank you very much if you have any questions reach out to any of the people on this slide and we’ll be happy to talk