Chapter 1 – Product Overview
01-WaveCore-Overview
Hello, my name is Jason Papineau and I’m a senior sales engineer here with Airvine. I’ll be guiding you through our self-paced video series to become a certified installer of Airvine’s WaveCore product. These videos are broken into chapters to allow you to view at your own pace. In this chapter , we’ll take a look at the WaveCore features and functionality.
What is the WaveCore? The WaveCore is a high performance indoor wireless, point-to-point layer two bridge. The WaveCore is designed to transport your IP network through walls, ceilings, and floors that are made of concrete. The design criteria our engineering team was given was to achieve over two gigabits of throughput while penetrating at least eight inches of concrete in which they’ve achieved, and then some.
The WaveCore bridges communicate using the IEEE 802.11BE protocol dubbed EHT for extremely high throughput and the unlicensed six gigahertz band. The WaveCore is sold as a link and can be powered by POE or 12 volt DC adapter.
Where should the WaveCore be used? Airvine solves problems that typically require additional time and funds in the fraction of each. Interior Concrete walls, floors, and ceilings, fire control rooms, factories, and server rooms are just some examples of where customers are deploying the WaveCore to solve their network issues.
Concrete is widely used in basic construction for all of our target markets. Internationally concrete construction is even more common for interior, concrete, walls, floors, and ceilings. The only solution today is to core drill through the concrete if existing pathways donot exist. Structural integrity requires x-rays, permits, inspections, and a professional engineer to sign off, which can be costly.
Fire control rooms typically reside in the basement of a building in concrete rooms, which need connectivity to the outdoor world. 3G Networks were the primary solution, but many legacy networks are being turned down and some 5G frequencies lack the ability to penetrate into the room utilizing their existing IP network.
WaveCore can provide service into fire control rooms within hours with no core drilling or professional engineering sign-off required.Factories and server rooms typically are constructed with telco rooms. Having concrete walls WaveCore can easily get your network past today’s barriers.
Here we’re showing the backside of the WaveCore node. We can see the front cover facing away from the screen with the heat sink in the middle, which is used for heat dissipation, and the back cover facing towards us on the side of the back cover are system LEDs, which include power, system, radio, and align. Inside the interface bay, once the cover is removed, we can see a 12 volt DC adapter can plug in a slot for an optional SFP+ port, the POE 10 gigabit ethernet port. And lastly, the reset button. The POE ethernet port has two LEDs that will denote the RJ 45 connector status and speed supporting connections from a hundred megabits to 10 gigabits per second.
If we turn the WaveCore around, we see the same front and back covers heat sink and system LEDs from a different angle. The item to note here is the direction of the antenna is transmitting The antenna transmits from the front cover away from the interface bay. This is a four by four MIMO system where there’s an antenna in the horizontal and vertical planes as well as plus or minus 45 degrees.
These antennas have a 10 degrees plus or minus horizontal and vertical beam width.
On the bottom of each WaveCore node, there’s a sticker, which has an arrow showing the direction of the antenna as well to prevent any installation errors for optimal alignment. Each WaveCore node should have the antennas facing each other as well as being oriented in the same direction. Additional information located on the sticker would include Mac address, serial number, device type, initial configuration, which can be either controller node, subordinate node, or spare node, as well as the product registration QR code.
A WaveCore link is made up of a controller node and a subordinate node. The controller node initiates and manages a link to a subordinate node and can only connect wirelessly to a subordinate node. The subordinate node operates under the control of the controller node and can only connect wirelessly to a controller node.
Both can be managed and monitored using the Vine Manager web based GUI or Airvinemobile application. You can log into either device and manage both nodes once they are linked.
Depending on where in the world the WaveCore is designed to be installed, there are two versions to choose from. WC-1000RH-US is for all US and Canada Market installations. WC-1000RH-RW is for all other countries. It is important the proper model is ordered and installed to ensure that the proper local regulatory and safety guidelines are followed.
Now that we’ve had an overview of the WaveCore, let’s answer the age old question, what’s in the box? So when you order a link, you’re gonna have both units in there. Right off the bat, we can remove a cardboard spacer. This is gonna separate our WaveCores from our accessories. We’ll have two separate boxes in there.
On the box, we can see that it’s gonna have our model number subordinate node, serial, and mac address listed. Our other box is gonna be the same except for it’s gonna list that this is my controller node, so I know which unit is which. Right off the bat, if you ordered any additional accessories, power adapters the appropriate country power cords, those are gonna be included in the box as well.
Same thing as you ordered. Long, long mounting bracket, SFP plus ports, those would be included in here. So what’s in the box? Let’s keep digging. Open up a little bit of cushion and cardboard to remove. Right off the bat, our WaveCore is ready. It’s already got the short mounting brackets attached to it, ready to go, to be mounted, flush mounted to walls, ceilings, floors, whatever you might need.
We mentioned the interface bay. It’s just pinch of two fingers to be able to pull off the little plastic piece as we showed in there. We have our 12 volt DC adapter, our optional SFP+ port, our POE 10 gigabit ethernet port, and the reset button. The only thing that’s in the box that isn’t attached ready to go is gonna be two little covers.
So whenever you’re done, when you’re routing your cables, generally you would want to go. And route it straight in. And then if you put our cover on, it’s gonna be a clean finish. It’s gonna hide your cables for you. So both controller and subordinate node are gonna look identical. The only difference is once you look on underneath the sticker, you’ll see which one is which.
It’ll actually have the arrow as we pointed out, as well, showing that. We’re transmitting away from that interface bay. So both of our units we’re gonna want facing towards each other with the interface bay towards the camera in this example. So that way we know of we’re oriented properly, and then we would get our alignment done.
So this is an unboxing of the WaveCore units. We’ll see in the next chapters.
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