Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company
Situated at the mountainous area of Mankayan, Benguet, Lepanto has been at the forefront of the Philippine mining industry
for more than 75 years. In its efforts to reinforce security in its mining site and augment operations, the company employed the
use of Deliberant’s APC Series radios to wirelessly connect additional and existing surveillance cameras to its network. Given the
critical nature of security in a mining site, the company needed a compatible and much more efficient solution that would allow
for low latency and can flexibly be used for either PTP (Point-to-Point) or PTMP (Point to Multipoint) links. Deemed as an ideal
and cost-effective alternative to fiber optic wired connection, the wireless equipment are concurrently used for data and voice
backhaul, internet sharing and CCTV transmission to the benefit of its 1,000 employees.
The Challenge
Deployment in a mountainous terrain is always a challenge
with the presence of tall trees that can obstruct clear line of
sight and the foggy weather conditions during some hours of
the day. The established links covered areas from the General
Office Complex to Tubo Complex, Nayak, Sand and Gravel
Tower and the Mill area.
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Why Lepanto Chose Deliberant
• Low latency
• High distance capability
• Good scalability
• Ideal for video and voice applications
• Interference caused by nearby wireless radios easily managed
• Outmatched Lepanto’s existing radios in
• terms of performance, stability and reliability
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In total, 19 links were established with up to 4 hops for each
complete link. Video transmission consumed 4 MB for each
Axis IP camera, streaming smoothly with no lag or freeze frame
during viewing. Such is the capability of using Deliberant’s
proprietary PTMP protocol called the iPoll, which enables maximum
bandwidth with the lowest possible latency, making it the
ideal wireless connectivity tool for voice and video.
In addition to being extremely fast and functional, the new Deliberant
OS has all the features required for the WISP community
including router and bridge modes, auto modulation, smart
auto-channel, internal UAM (captive portal), WDS (compatible
with 3rd party equipment), VLAN’s, virtual APs, traffic shaping,
tools such as antenna alignment, site survey and many more.
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APC 5M-90
The Deliberant APC 5M-90 used as the Base Station
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| Frequency Range | 4.9-5.9GHz |
| Polarization | 18 dBi |
| Cros-pol isolation | Dual Linear |
| Max VSWR | 24 dB minimum |
| H-pol Beamwidth | 90 deg |
| V-pol Beamwidth | 90 deg |
| Elevation Beamwidth | 20 deg |
| Operating Mode | PTP, PTMP |
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APC 5M-18
APC 5M-18 as the CPE, both 5Ghz frequency
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| Frequency Range | 4.9-5.9GHz |
| Polarization | 18 dBi |
| Cros-pol isolation | Dual Linear |
| Max VSWR | 24 dB minimum |
| H-pol Beamwidth | 16 deg |
| V-pol Beamwidth | 16 deg |
| Elevation Beamwidth | 16 deg |
| Operating Mode | PTP, PTMP |
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