Microwave based Communication Solutions for Deep-water E&P

Ceragon Networks AS

Mission Critical Networking Solution

Eirik Nesse

Agenda

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Case Studies

Questions

Ceragon Overview

Stabilized Microwave Solutions

Proprietary and Confidential

The #1 Wireless Backhaul Specialist

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Microwave radios since

1947

US $446M in 2012

Field Proven Experience

Professional Engineering

Teams

Innovation Commitment Experience

Proprietary and Confidential

Global Reach with Local Support

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Norway Europe and Oil&Gas HQ

R&D

Israel WW HQ & R&D

Romania R&D

Greece R&D

Slovakia Production & QA

Local support

Proprietary and Confidential

Technology Leadership & Innovation In-House Technologies

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• In-house microwave radio technology

• Modem, RFIC, Power Amplifiers

• Best performance

• Capacity, Reliability, Green, Range

• In-house development of Stabilized Antenna

• Optimized for Diversity operation and Multi-Sector

• Tight integration between all components

Dedicated to the long term excellence of

cutting edge Microwave Solutions 2048QAM

RFIC

Access Backbone Aggregation

Short Haul

100Mb/s-1Gb/s

Long Haul

> 1Gb/s Short Haul

100Mb/s-1Gb/s

Small Cells

100Mb/s-1Gb/s

Complete Set of Wireless Backhaul Solutions

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Evolution LH

IP-20 IP-10

IP-10C

Sub-6 GHz

E-band

Proprietary and Confidential

Offshore Microwave Communication Solution

VSAT

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Need communication to offshore real estate?

Wireless Provides Optimal Technology for the Digital Oil Field

Cap

acit

y (M

bp

s)

10,000

1,000

100

10

10 1000 Distance (KM)

Fibre CAPEX intensive

Long outage on fiber cuts

OPEX intensive

Limited capacity

100 50

Wireless Highly cost effective

High Capacity

Dynamic positioning

Proprietary and Confidential

Microwave VSAT

Recurring cost Low High *

Capacity 10 – 1000s Mb/s 256 kb/s – 4 Mb/s

Latency Ultra Low (sub ms) High (~1s)

QoS 8 levels QoS Basic

Availability 99.95 – 99.999 % 99.7 %

TCO analysis – Microwave vs. VSAT

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2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 40 42

VSAT 512kb

VSAT 4M

Microwave 10M

Microwave 100M

Total cost of ownership of VSAT vs. PointLink solution

Months

Co

st (

$)

* : Space segment, teleport charges, etc.

Proprietary and Confidential

Latency at VSAT contra Microwave

Customer plot when switching from VSAT to Radio Link

VSAT latency plot

RL latency plot

Proprietary and Confidential

Capacity, Latency, Reliability

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Integrated Operation with Voice, Video and Date

Crew Infotainment Oil spill detections radars

Proprietary and Confidential

Communications for the Digital Oil Field

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FPSO

Fixed Rig

Supply/Stand-by vessels

PtMP Sector

PtMP Sector

Facility Management

HQ

• Integrated Operation/Field Automation • Video conferencing • Voice & Data communication • Workforce management • Security/Surveillance • Environment monitoring • Employee infotainment

Secure and reliable high capacity communication to remote and harsh conditions

PointLink

FibeAir IP-10/IP-20

Proprietary and Confidential

Challenges – Line of Sight

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• Brazilian Oil fields are far from shore (100 – 300 km)

• Needs high altitude mountain to reach oil-field

But it’s not…

Microwave links in licensed bands needs “Line of Sight”

Frequency bands from 4 GHz to 18 GHz

• A range of around 50 km rig to rig, and 100 -170 km onshore (mountain) to offshore

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Field Senter

Installation

When Dual/Quadruple Point Link system required ?

Multipath propagation

Local obstructions

360° heading change

100 % redundancy (no SPF)

Active

Standby

PointLink Solution

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Proprietary and Confidential

When things moves

• Floating installations moves with waves even if anchored

• FPSOs based on a vessel hull rotate around the anchoring

• Microwave antennas has a narrow beam width, causing loss of signal

when the antenna points off target

Antenna beam without PointLink

Antenna beam with PointLink

• Target aiming based on highly accurate GPS compass/Gyro information

Proprietary and Confidential

• Stabilized Antenna

• Antenna sizes 0.3 to 3.0m (1ft to 10ft)

• Frequency 3.6 – 18.0 GHz

• Pointing accuracy ±0.2°

• Angular travel Az 310° (Option 510°)

El ±20°

• Radomes

• 0.3 and 0.6 m antenna 0.9 m radome

• 1.2 m antenna 1.80 m radome

• 2.0 m antenna 2.90 m radome

PointLink Dual axis system

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PointLink Starboard Diversity Antenna

PointLink Starboard Main Antenna

PointLink Port Diversity Antenna

PointLink Port Main Antenna

Proprietary and Confidential

Typical Indoor Rack

( Front side )

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Proprietary and Confidential

Any service

• Native Ethernet or SDH/SONET transport

• Selectable by plug-in units and software

• 8 level QoS, Real time latency sensitive to Best Effort services

• Carrier Ethernet 2.0 with integrated Network Management

SU Controller STM-1 STM-4 Ethernet DXC 25xE1 3XE3

SDH/SONET

Main Interfaces

Ethernet 25xE1 STM-1 (channelized)

Native Ethernet &TDM Interfaces

ATEX

Proprietary and Confidential

Why is the ATEX so important?

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Macondo accident Gulf of Mexico 20.04.2010 11 people died 17 people injured

Piper Alpha accident English sector of the North Sea 06.07.1998 160 people died

Proprietary and Confidential

• ATEX certifications

(EU 94/9/EC directive - Appareils destinés à être utilisés en ATmosphères EXplosives )

(operate in an environment with an explosive atmosphere)

Zones

The zone defines the probability of hazardous material being present in an ignitable

concentration in the surrounding atmosphere

Zone 0 Area in which an explosive gas-air mixture is continuously present or present for long periods.

Zone 1 Combustible or conductive dusts are present. Area in which an explosive gas-air mixture is likely to occur for short periods in normal operation.

Zone 2 Area in which an explosive gas-air mixture is not likely to occur, and if it occurs it will only exist for a very short time due to an abnormal condition.

Strict offshore requirements

Proprietary and Confidential

ATEX Radio

ODU Offshore version, tested according to ATEX standards

and delivered with Ex label and ATEX test record

Fixed antenna solution, having ATEX certified offshore radio as only active component, can be deployed in ATEX EEx nR II T6 (Zone 2) area

Proprietary and Confidential

ATEX System PointLink

EExP certification

Purge system

PointLink system Mk II and Mk III Is available as Ex px IIC T4 Gb option For use in ATEX Zone 1 Area

ATEX HW in dome

Other microwave systems

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Proprietary and Confidential

Other Microwave solution Unlicensed Sub-6 GHz P2MP Solution

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Proprietary and Confidential

Over the horizon systems

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• Troposcatter systems is a viable solution for the hard to reach areas

• Traditionally used for ultra long links with huge fixed antennas

• Under study for use for offshore links 100 – 200 km

• High cost and complexity (TX power 100W to 1kW)

Scatter area

Overcoming Offshore Challenges West Navigator Case Study

Proprietary and Confidential

Gamlemsveten to West Navigator

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113 km

Northwestern coast of Norway

150 Mb/s link capacity U6 GHz frequency band Dual sector microwave systems

Vessel: West Navigator

Length / Width: 253m / 42m

Operator: SHELL

Vessel type: Dynamic Positioning

Rated water depth: 7.500 ft

Drilling depth: 35.000 ft

A regular day in the office...

During hurricane “Berit” – November 2011

Thank you for the attention

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