Saad Z. Asif

Work place: Telecom Wireless, Islamabad, Pakistan

E-mail: szasif@hotmail.com

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Research Interests: Computational Science and Engineering, Computational Engineering, Engineering

Biography

Saad Z. Asif has more than 17 years of experience in evaluating telecommunications standards and technologies, providing strategic directions to companies and advising government on telecommunications matters. Currently, he is working as a Director Telecom Wireless at Ministry of IT, Pakistan drafting country’s Telecom (Wireless and Spectrum) policy and leading the WRC-15 (World Radiocommunication Conference 2015) activities. He worked till 2014 at Telenor Pakistan as Senior Advisor- Transmission Network where his focus was on millimetre wave e-band microwave radios and carrier Ethernet technologies. He also previously worked for well known cellular operators Mobilink, Pakistan and Sprint, USA where he conducted proof of concepts trials on WiMAX, and 3G CDMA2000/EV-DO respectively. He also played a major role in designing Sprint’s wireless high-speed data strategy. He is a recognized Scientist of Pakistan, holds five U.S. patents, has written two books on telecommunications and publish 14 technical papers/articles, and holds M.S. in electrical engineering and engineering management from Oklahoma State University, USA and University of Kansas, USA respectively.

Author Articles
E-band Microwave Radios for Mobile Backhaul

By Saad Z. Asif

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijwmt.2015.04.04, Pub. Date: 26 Jul. 2015

This article explores the emerging high capacity microwave radios that operate in 70-90 GHz frequency band to address the mobile backhaul challenge of the cellular industry of Pakistan. The challenge will be look from both technical and business perspectives covering topics like frequency assignments, radio capacity, and experimental results. In hindsight these millimeter wave microwave radios provide an alternative (particularly to optical fiber) to address the said challenge of one of the lowest ARPU (average revenue per user) markets of the world.

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