SDIDU - DRS

The DRS Software Defined IDU provides high capacity transmission, flexibility, features, and convenience for wireless digital communications networks. The DRS SDIDU represents a new microwave architecture that is designed to address universal applications for both PDH and SDH platforms. This advanced technology platform is designed to provide the flexibility to customers for their current and future network needs.
The DRS SDIDU family is based upon a common platform to support a wide range of network interfaces and configurations. It supports links for 16/32/42/63 x E1/T1, 1/2 x 100BaseTX Ethernet, DS-3/E-3/STS-1, 1000BaseTX Ethernet, and 1/2 x STM-1/OC-3. The SDIDU™ is spectrum and data rate scalable, enabling service providers or organizations to trade-off system gain with spectral efficiency and channel availability for optimal network connectivity. DRS SDIDU enables network operators (mobile and private), government and access service provides to offer a portfolio of secure, scalable wireless applications for data, video, and Voice over IP (VoIP).
The Software Defined IDU™ includes integrated Operations, Administration, Maintenance, and Provisioning (OAM&P) functionality and design features enabling simple commissioning when the radio network is initially set up in the field at the customer’s premises. Furthermore, a highlight of DRS SDIDU is scalability and the capability to support a ring-type architecture. This ring or consecutive point radio architecture is self-healing in the event of an outage in the link and automatically re-routes data traffic, thereby ensuring that service to the end user is not interrupted.
The Software Defined IDU™ supports 1+0 and 1+1 protection and ring architectures in a single 1 RU chassis. The modem and power supply functions are supported using easily replaceable plug-in modules. An additional feature of the SDIDU™ is provision for a second plug-in modem/IF module to provide repeater or east/west network configurations.