Land Mobile Radio

Spectrum for Land Mobile Radio (LMR) has become increasingly limited as more and more agencies vie for the same bandwidth. Agiosat offers a way to reduce that congestion by utilizing the Agiosat network to perform LMR radio backhauls from repeater sites.

As the LMR signal comes into the repeater site, it is converted to an IP stream (if an IP compatible radio is not in use) and fed to a satellite antenna adjacent to the repeater site. The IP stream is then sent via the Agiosat network to one or more sites, where it is converted out of IP, if required, and made available to other radios. Since the Agiosat system automatically goes into a peer-to-peer mode to sites within the network, it is a single satellite hop from site to site, keeping latency well within tolerances.

Utilizing Agiosat for LMR backhauls is also very cost-effective. A fixed satellite system at the repeater site is a fraction of the cost of a microwave system, and there is no frequency contention as so frequently occurs with microwave. The satellite system is virtually maintenance-free, and has an exceptionally long life. Satellite bandwidth can be kept to a level required for day-to-day use, but can be increased on demand in times of high use. Plus, utilizing satellite for backhaul creates a diverse route with the capability to work around any single or multiple site outages because each satellite site is treated independently on the network.

To see a typical architecture for a LMR backhaul system, click here.