DragonWave and Altitude Infrastructure Enhance WimMAX Services in France.

Altitude Infrastructure, a subsidiary of Altitude Group, has partnered with DragonWave Inc. to provide WiMAX (News - Alert) broadband services across France.

 

DragonWave's Ethernet backhaul solution will be deployed in four regional i.e. in the Departement de la Haute Garonne, Departement des Deux Sevres, Departement du Jura and Departement des Pyrenees Atlantiques. Altitude introduced WiMAX service in 2004 to its France customers.

 

Altitude Infrastructure provides services and support for business consumers and infrastructure projects run by regional government authorities.

 

Fabrice Ballart, director general with Altitude Infrastructure stated that WiMAX has matured beyond the developmental stage. Today it is being selected as a legitimate broadband access option by more and more French customers.

 

“A broad portfolio of frequency options provides the flexibility we need to introduce WiMAX in any region. Its superior payload-per-hertz efficiency means we can optimize our spectrum usage and overall backhaul investment without compromising the end user experience. These benefits have helped fuel our business and provide a better return on network investments." Mr. Ballart expressed.

 

According to DragonWave’s (News - Alert) official, wireless ethernet solutions provide a competitive alternative to residential DSL as well as an enterprise solution for private line Ethernet and TDM services below 5-10 Mbps. Its products respond to the critical backhaul needs of service providers by providing ultra low latency, native Ethernet, 800 Mbps wire speed product with the ability to rapidly and easily expand their geographic market coverage. This is done in common carrier licenses, saving expensive WiMax and 3G licenses for customer access.

 

With this partnership, the company is accepting hundreds of new orders per month and expects the year plans to double the number of base stations in its WiMAX network to six hundred.

 

DragonWave’s Ethernet solutions claim to ensure interference-free performance, ultra-low latency to support real-time services, and scaleable Ethernet connectivity up to 800 Mbps. It is easy to deploy and manage which comes along with full suit of network management option and provide 99.999% engineered service. Altitude Infrastructure is deploying DragonWave's AirPair products operating in licensed frequencies between 6 and 38 GHz.

 

“The deployment expands DragonWave's growing market presence in Europe.”Operators in more and more markets are validating our IP backhaul solutions as the state-of-the-art, high-capacity transport option for 3G and 4G base stations," said Peter Allen (News - Alert), president and CEO of DragonWave.

 

"We will continue to work closely with Altitude to assist in its expansion plans in France and with WiMAX operators throughout Europe and other international markets." he said.

DragonWave Inc. formed in 2000 provides designs, develops, markets and sells carrier-grade microwave equipment offering high capacity broadband wireless systems for network operators and service providers.

 

DragonWave's wireless Ethernet products, which are based on a native Ethernet platform, function as a wireless extension to an existing fiber-optic core telecommunications network. The principal application for DragonWave's products is the backhaul function in a wireless communications network.