TABLE OF CONTENTS After the preliminary microwave network plan has been approved, detailed microwave network design has to be completed. Site acquisition, microwave network design, RF design (in case of wireless network build-out), and interference analysis are done simultaneously. In most cases, the results are mutually dependant. That means that none of these activities can be done without consultations with and input from the other three. It also means that a project manager has to make sure that these groups of experts talk to each other on a daily basis, which can sometimes present a challenge. The results and deliverables of the microwave network design process will be used during the deployment stage for the actual installation and testing of the microwave system. Microwave path (link) calculations are performed as a part of detailed microwave system design, and all the detailed hardware requirements (bill of materials) are defined based on this information. The microwave design software tools are used for detailed path engineering and interference analysis.
Congestion of the radio frequency spectrum requires sharing many frequency bands among different radio services and among the different operators of similar radio services. National administrations will allocate some or all these bands for fixed microwave radio use in line with local requirements. To ensure the satisfactory coexistence of the systems involved, it is important to be able to predict, with reasonable accuracy, the interference potential among them, using prediction procedures and models that are acceptable to...
