Airborne Networks for Education and Campus Networks

However, this is dependent on networks being able to reach students cost effectively at home and in schools and colleges.

Airborne Evolution provides an IP based future- proof way to build islands of local coverage around institutional catchment areas and scale these seamlessly to a national, subscription-free “last mile” coverage solution.

Education organisations have the flexibility to integrate any mix of air interface technologies on an infrastructure which can be rapidly and cost-effectively scaled for increased capacity or coverage.

The Airborne Evolution system is a Mesh system which can be configured to suit a range of “Last few miles” scenarios.

Unlike traditional mobile network infrastructure, Airborne Evolution is built from the outside in, meaning that the lowest cost elements of the network are deployed first.

Higher bandwidth infrastructure is added only as traffic or connections increase, keeping costs to a minimum in the early recruitment phase.

The Evolution network can be configured as a private network, which can operate in licensed, light Licensed or unlicensed spectrum, and can be reconfigured as spectrum becomes available. This keeps costs to a minimum, both by reducing spectrum costs and avoiding the need to replace base stations as requirements change.

It therefore removes any requirement for commercial mobile network subscriptions and can be configured as an extension to the existing SUPERJANET network, or restricted to a single institution or group of institutions.

Linking institutions within consortia can be managed at any stage of network development as requirements emerge.