Alvarion today announced the availability of its BreezeMAX 2300 and BreezeMAX 2500 products, with shipments expected to begin in the fourth quarter of this year.
Employing the IEEE 802.16e standard, Alvarion is extending its BreezeMAX platform to address the 2.3 and 2.5 GHz bands available in North America and the rest of the world. It is the radio access base station of the company’s mobile WiMAX solution, 4Motion.
The BreezeMAX 2300 and BreezeMAX 2500 are extensions of Alvarion’s widely-successful, field-proven BreezeMAX platform, one of the first WiMAX systems to launch in 2004. The products are targeted at carriers wanting to provide fixed, nomadic, portable and in the future, mobile applications in mass market, urban areas.
The carrier-class design supports broadband speeds and quality of service (QoS) to enable carriers to offer quadruple play broadband services over IP to thousands of subscribers in a single base station.
“These BreezeMAX 2300 and BreezeMAX 2500 products give carriers first-to-market advantage to start building their WiMAX customer base,” said Rudy Leser, Alvarion’s corporate vice president of strategy and marketing. “Based on the IEEE 802.16e standard, the systems are designed to enable carriers to offer full mobile services in the future, leveraging their current investment in BreezeMAX infrastructure. The many technological advances and vast field experience of BreezeMAX translate into immediate cost savings for service providers.”
BreezeMAX is one of the key elements of Alvarion’s 4Motion, which is a complete, end-to-end WiMAX solution, incorporating QoS mechanisms, IP mobility core components, and multimedia subsystems along with subscriber terminals and backend interfaces.
4Motion, with BreezeMAX as its base station, employs software defined radio (SDR), beam forming, multi-in multi-out (MIMO), dynamic bandwidth allocation, and scaleable OFDMA technologies. Alvarion says it offers service providers greater coverage, capacity, and flexibility in their mobile WiMAX deployments along with improved economics.
With more than 2 million units deployed in 150 countries, Alvarion a world leader in WiMAX gear. Alvarion claims to have the most extensive deployments and proven product portfolio in the industry covering the full range of frequency bands with both fixed and mobile solutions.
