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BigAir Group Limited (BigAir), an Australian wireless broadband service provider has deployed Airspan Networks’ (News - Alert) 5.8GHz MicroMAX base stations for the first commercial WiMAX services in Sydney and Melbourne.

 

Following a six month extensive technical trial of both proprietary wireless and WiMAX technologies in the 5.8GHz band, BigAir chose Airspan as its supplier for its rollout of fixed WiMAX (News - Alert) services for business customers in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

 

BigAir CEO, Jason Ashton, said that their company is pleased to be the only Australian carrier currently offering fixed WiMAX services in the metropolitan markets of Sydney and Melbourne.

 

The Australian service provider intends to continue expanding their WiMAX network to other areas across Australia in order to offer leading services to businesses frustrated with the current limitations of fixed line options.

 

“BigAir chose to deploy field proven industry leading WiMAX products from Airspan Networks as the extensive testing showed Airspan equipment consistently gave BigAir up to double the performance of competing proprietary systems,” said Ashton in a statement.

 

Ashton believes WiMAX will allow BigAir to offer symmetric, business-grade broadband at speeds of up to 30 Mbps today with far greater range and reliability than is currently available with proprietary wireless systems.

 

“In the very near future we will offer even higher speeds as WiMAX technology evolves,” he added.

 

Henrik Smith-Petersen, Airspan's president of Asia Pacific points out that Airspan successfully passed the intense and in-depth technical due diligence carried out by BigAir. He explained that they are gaining traction with their MicroMAX 5.8GHz product and believes this deployment with BigAir validates their position as the leading supplier of WiMAX products in Asia Pacific.

 

Airspan's MicroMAX base station can support lower density, rural broadband access, enterprise applications and DSL in-fill scenarios in both licensed and unlicensed bands.

 

 

 

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