PARIS (WiMAX Day). Harris Stratex Networks secured a deal earlier this month to provide the Eclipse wireless transport platform to TDF, a French converged service provider. The company selected Eclipse because the platform is ideally suited to assist in WiMAX backhaul traffic and enables operators to support high-reliability Carrier Ethernet transport. Another key consideration for TDF’s was Eclipse’s ability to provide scaleable bandwidth from 10 to over 600 Mbit/s in a single radio channel and its broad selection of channel bandwidth options due to its highly efficient modulation technology.

In France, as in most EU countries, annual license fees are charged on every radio link and based upon the bandwidth used. Eclipse will enable TDF to fit more capacity in less bandwidth than many other solutions, which, when viewed over their entire network, will result in significant overall savings. TDF currently holds licenses to provide WiMAX at 3.5 GHz spectrum across 11 territories in France.