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Alvarion Ltd. has chosen the WinPath network processor and related software from Wintegra for its next-generation WiMAX products addressing the 802.16e market. The Alvarion (News - Alert) BreezeMAX radio access system is the main building block of the company’s end-to-end 4Motion mobile WiMAX solution. It integrates Wintegra’s silicon to address the demand for mobile broadband while also offering support for WiMAX Forum-based mobile WiMAX solutions over a broad spectrum range.

The Alvarion solutions enable carriers to offer high-performance broadband data, voice and multimedia services. Wintegra’s integrated silicon and software solutions are geared toward WiMAX, 3G and LTE base stations as well as RNCs, network interfaces, broadband wireless access, and 2G and 3G cell site aggregation and backhaul. The company’s fixed and mobile WiMAX solution offers a family of pin- and software-compatible, programmable network processors that may scale from single sector integrated picostations to multi-sector base stations, and incorporate advanced antenna technology.

Wintegra also offers a software solution to incorporate scheduling, classification, encryption and QoS features, as well as VLAN marking, payload header suppression, multiple CS layers, IP fragmentation and GRE and IP-in-IP tunneling. These features are required to meet WiMAX Forum network definitions, and also enable rapid integration with next-generation wireless access networks and ASN gateways.

The 4Motion end-to-end mobile WiMAX solution offers advanced radio technologies, QoS mechanisms, IP mobility core components, and multimedia subsystems. It features subscriber terminals, an OMC and backend interfaces, and uses software defined radio, beam forming, MIMO, dynamic bandwidth allocation and scalable OFDMA technologies.

“We are extremely satisfied with our decision to use WinPath processors and related software in BreezeMAX, our radio access system that is part of Alvarion's 4Motion mobile WiMAX solution,” said Tsach Shwartz, vice president of R&D at Alvarion, in a statement. “The high performance of the Wintegra solution gives us clear flexibility and robustness advantages in adapting our system to the ever evolving requirements of the mobile WiMAX network standards. WinPath is one reason why we continue to provide the market leadership that our customers have come to expect.”

“We have been very impressed with the innovation and scope of the Alvarion WiMAX and BWA programs, and believe that Wintegra can play a key role in Alvarion's continued success,” said Michael Phillip, VP and GM of Wireless Systems at Wintegra. “Getting the right solution to market quickly is critical in emerging markets like WiMAX and BWA, and Wintegra and Alvarion are clearly aligned in this objective.”

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Laura Stotler writes about IP Communications and related topics for TMCnet. She has covered VoIP and related technologies for seven years, contributing to Internet Telephony magazine and TMCnet, and as a freelance writer. To see more articles, please visit: Laura Stotler’s columnist page.

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