Wavion, a Metro and Rural Wi-Fi vendor promoting beamforming, today announced the release of a new SW version supporting self-backhaul.
Wavion’s spatially adaptive base stations have been extended to provide self-backhaul to neighboring base stations using their beamforming technology that leverages six radios and antennas.
The company says the self-backhaul feature has been successfully tested by beta customers and the new SW release will support the Wireless Multi-Media standard (WMM) for voice and video QOS, as well as the latest WPA2 security.
“Our self-backhaul drastically simplifies the deployment of our WBS-2400 base stations and provides the operators with further savings in CAPEX and OPEX”, said Dr. Mati Wax Wavion’s CTO.
Wavion’s base stations will provide Wi-Fi to schools in Uruguay where students are using OLPCs.
For wide-area suburban coverage, some industry observers believe licensed WiMAX using antenna techniques like MIMO, AAS, adaptive beamforming, SDMA, and uplink sub-channelization, may largely solve the problem of indoor penetration and range at less cost than Wi-Fi per sq mile — with better reliability. Sprint CEO Dan Hesse explains the whys and where fors of WiMAX.
Put Wavion’s technology on the 2150-2180 MHz “free” band and you might have a real revolution. The FCC plans to auction the “free band” off to oblivion — cities and rural communities be damned. Free it up. The band should be controlled by local people, not billion dollar slum lords like Verizon, IMHO.
Maybe FCC staffers should talk to WiMAX daddy Roger Marks. He’ll know what to do.
Related DailyWireless stories include; FCC: Free Broadband at 2155-2180 MHz, Bill to Free 2155-2180 Mhz, Free 2155-2175 MHz!, M2Z Vrs FCC, Equal Access Happy Talk and Broadband Wireless — Hello Goodbye.
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