Wifi Revolution

Alvarion (News - Alert) Ltd. a global provider of wireless broadband solutions, has announced that Aircel Business Solutions (ABS), a subsidiary of Indian cellular service provider Aircel, is expanding its current network and planning to use BreezeMAX 3300 to deploy WiMAX networks across 50 cities in northern and eastern India.

Presently, Aircel has deployments in eight cities. The service provider is using BreezeMAX to overlay and expand its current broadband and cellular network infrastructure. The solution will enable Aircel to quickly offer affordable broadband data services to small and medium enterprise (SME) customers.

Aircel reportedly conducted extensive technological, commercial and operational research before selecting Alvarion's BreezeMAX as the WiMAX system for providing broadband services.

Jagdish Kini, Group chief executive officer, Aircel believes that they have pioneered India’s wireless revolution by offering WiMAX along with a host of innovative enterprise services using BreezeMAX's built-in support for service level agreements (SLAs).

“We look forward to continuing to work with Alvarion as we expand our WiMAX offerings across India,” said Kini.

“Aircel is one of several WiMAX customers we have in APAC, a region identified long ago as having great potential for WiMAX due to its insatiable demand for broadband and general lack of infrastructure,” said Tzvika Friedman, president and CEO of Alvarion in a press release.

He continued: “Leveraging our widely deployed BreezeMAX system and deep technical capabilities, we were able to quickly and cost-effectively offer a WiMAX product in the specific spectrum available in India. We are very excited to help close the digital divide in such a large and important emerging market.”

Alvarion’s BreezeMAX is WiMAX Certified platform that is designed from the ground up according to the IEEE 802.16 standards. BreezeMAX uses OFDM technology for advanced non-line-of-sight (NLOS) functionality.

Since its carrier-class design supports broadband speeds and quality of service (QoS), it enables carriers to offer triple play broadband services to thousands of subscribers in a single base station.

BreezeMAX 3300 is an extension of Alvarion’s WiMAX platform operating in 3.3GHz, the frequency band specifically licensed for WiMAX services in India.

Launched in mid-2004, BreezeMAX has been successfully deployed in over 200 installations in more than 80 countries around the world.

Aircel Business Solutions (ABS), a part of Aircel, is headquartered in Chennai, India and is an ISO 9000 certified company.

Alvarion is the provider of innovative wireless network solutions enabling personal broadband services to improve lifestyles and productivity with portable and mobile data, VoIP, video and other applications.

Want to learn more about wireless broadband solutions? Then be sure to check out TMCnet’s Whitepaper Library, which provides a selection of in-depth information on relevant topics affecting the IP Communications industry. The library offers whitepapers, case studies and other documents which are free to registered users.

---------

Anuradha Shukla is a contributing editor for TMCnet, covering call centers, CRM and information technology. To see more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.

Back to WiFi Revolution home