Sunday, January 10, 2010

AIRSPAN MACROMAXE

Airspan Networks today announced certification of their MacroMAXe (pdf), a 802.16e Mobile WiMAX Base Station, by the WiMAX Forum.

WiMAX Forum Certification means the product fully complies with the Mobile WiMAX profile and is interoperable with over 45 certified devices, including netbooks, laptops, USB dongles, indoor modems and outdoor CPEs.

“Airspan has been a great proponent of the standardization and interoperability certification process. We are happy to add the Airspan mobile base station to the group of certified WiMAX base stations, thereby increasing operator choice, reducing overall investment risk and creating a price-competitive marketplace,” said Ron Resnick, president and chairman of the WiMAX Forum.

The MacroMAXe is part of Airspan’s Software Defined Radio (SDR) family of WiMAX base stations which also includes the dual mode HiperMAX Base Station. MacroMAXe is a compact, lightweight “all-outdoor, all-in-one” form-factor designed to optimize OPEX. It includes MIMO (multiple input/multiple output) Matrix A/B and CSM, a unique implementation of Fractional Frequency Reuse (FFR), and Multi-carrier operation.

MacroMAXe fully supports the interoperable R6 reference point for interworking with ASN Gateways either in a distributed or centralized network configuration. MacroMAXe has been conceived for deployment in 3-sector configuration, which is the optimum configuration for Mobile WiMAX deployments. MacroMAXe design also incorporates an Ethernet switch which enables the traffic from 3 sectors to beaggregated for backhaul and network interfacing.

This certification is for the 2.5 GHz MacroMAXe. Airspan MacroMAXe is also available for operation in the 2.3, 3.3, 3.4-3.6 and 3.65 GHz frequency bands. MacroMAXe initially supports 5MHz and 10MHz channel sizes. However, the product is capable of supporting 20MHz channels (Mobile WiMAX profile Rel. 1.5) as well. MacroMAXe has been designed to support either 2×10MHz (using dual PHY/MAC) or 1×20MHz channel.

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