Siklu Joins Forces with Cisco to Provide Small Cell Wireless Backhaul Ecosystem

Recently, leading provider of millimeter wave systems Siklu announced that they have added their small cell wireless backhaul solution to the Cisco small wireless backhaul ecosystem. Siklu’s form factor millimeter wave radios provide solutions for both small cell and offload to the macro cell backhaul system.

Cisco has created an ecosystem of wireless solutions that provide continuous connectivity for mobile users and operators. This huge system is what Siklu is planning on joining in on, adding benefits such as Siklu’s unique all-silicon approach, bringing down the cost to a fraction of other competing millimeter wave systems. This also reduces the number of components that are required for the construction of the system, making the size much smaller, but also increasing reliability.

Siklu is a partner of Cisco with the closing of this deal – they provide technologies in a certain area, which is then encompassed into the overall Cisco mobile backhaul solutions. Ed Chang, vice-president of product management at Cisco, hypothesizes that this collaboration will continue the emphasis on providing an end-to-end solution for small cell backhaul as well as providing E-band and V-band for mobile operators.

Siklu’s two major products are EtherHaul-600T, a palm-sized small cell backhaul product that enables development anywhere and everywhere, and the EtherHaul-1200, a small for factor radio. These products will contribute to the strong ecosystem already established by Cisco, making the possibility of end-to-end functionality for mobile operators much easier. Izik Kirshenbaum, Siklu's Co-Founder, Chairman and President said that Siklu is very committed to stepping up to the challenges he’s faced with when dealing with small cell backhaul. He stated that Siklu’s unique all-silicon design, which leads to lower costs and higher performance and reliability, will aid in the mass deployment of small cells at a lower cost to operators.