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Industry’s most complete WiMAX product family in the widest selection of frequency bands WiMAX Solutions Airspan’s WiMAX Deployments Around the World 1 Airspan - The Recognized Leader in WiMAX • The widest range of WiMAX products • The widest range of frequency bands • The most advanced technologies and features Airspan is a worldwide leader in capability enables them to broadband wireless with over 400 simultaneously oer both WiMAX and customers in more than 100 countries. Wi-Fi, thus enabling the service provider to address a variety of As a founding member of the WiMAX markets including xed, nomadic, Forum™, Airspan has led the way in portable and Mobile WiMAX together WiMAX, being among the rst wave of with any Wi-Fi enabled device. companies to achieve certication for its base station and end user premises The challenges associated with equipment. delivering time critical services such as voice and video over a shared medium Airspan is also leading the race to such as wireless access are well known. Introducing WiMAX Mobile WiMAX. Through a careful Airspan’s VoiceMAX gives operators choice of advance technologies, the the ability to deliver carrier-grade VoIP agship base station HiperMAX is through a software suite that provides software upgradeable to Mobile admission control and manages WiMAX. The recently announced network congestion to deliver the best Over 400 customers in more than MicroMAXe also use the same user experience for VoIP calls across a 100 countries baseband technology rst HiperMAX network operating xed, • Maximize your CAPEX and developed for HiperMAX. nomadic and mobile proles OPEX returns simultaneously. The widest range of WiMAX The IEEE 802.16e-2005 compliant, We in Airspan believe that now is the products quad-band MiMAX USB device, right time to build your WiMAX • Base stations announced in 2006, will be the rst network. The advanced technologies • End User devices Wave2 compatible Mobile WiMAX we have embedded into our products • ASN Gateways device for laptops. ensure that whether you plan to start • VoIP Admission Control servers with Fixed WiMAX and migrate to • Network management Airspan has always taken the lead to Mobile WiMAX in the future or go for The widest selection of frequency bring real-world solutions to WiMAX Mobile WiMAX from the outset, your bands networks. Two examples of particular investment is safe and your network is note are the seamless integration of • From 700MHz to 5.9GHz ready for tomorrow’s opportunities. WiMAX and Wi-Fi technologies and The most advanced technologies the introduction of VoiceMAX. • Software Dened Radio Its industry leading technologies and solutions coupled with years of • MIMO Airspan’s Intel-based EasyST and experience of building and supporting • OBSAI ProST CPEs have versions with Wi-Fi large BWA networks make Airspan the • ATCA Access Point functionality. This ideal partner for Mobile and Fixed WiMAX deployments. 2 Mobile WiMAX – A Technical Overview The IEEE 802.16e-2005 Mobile • Duplex method - TDD WiMAX standard has been developed • Channel Bandwidth - to be the best wireless broadband 5/7/8.75/10/20MHz standard for portable devices enabling • FFT size - 512 (5MHz channel), a new era of high throughput and 1024 (10MHz channel) and high delivered bandwidth together 2048 (20MHz channel) with exceptional spectral eciency when compared to other 3G+ mobile Mobile WiMAX Certication wireless technologies such as HSPA and EV-DO. Mobile WiMAX Release 1 Prole certication has been divided into two Mobile WiMAX introduces scalable stages referred to as Wave 1 and OFDMA and several other key features Wave 2. summarized below: • Tolerance to multipath and self Wave 1 certication addresses a single interference certication prole targeted at the • Scalable channel size up to 20MHz Korean market. It excludes some • TDD operation to support fundamental features such as MIMO. A New Era in Wireless asymmetric trac True Mobile WiMAX performance is • Network optimized hard handover achieved through Wave 2 certication. Communications • Multicast and broadcast service support Wave 1 does not test for: Main Features • Hybrid ARQ based error control • MIMO 2x2 Matrix B • Power management (sleep, idle • Support for smart antennas Carefully chosen set of technologies modes) • Adaptive Modulation and to provide superior performance • Security and QoS Coding (AMC) • MIMO and smart antenna • IPv6 support Mobile WiMAX peak data rates and technology • Complete QoS features spectral eciency are better than • Fractional frequency reuse • Complete Handover features 3G and 3G+ technologies • Feedback based adaptive • Complete power management Mobile WiMAX certication to be modulation features achieved in two stages, Wave 1 and Wave 2 Mobile WiMAX Release 1.0 As a result of the above-identied True Mobile WiMAX performance Air Interface Prole limitations the performance of the will be arrived at through Wave 2 Wave 1 certied products would be certication Early in 2006 the WiMAX Forum™ less than those of IEEE 802.16-2004. MIMO (Matrix A & Matrix B) and selected the candidate certication Furthermore not all Wave 1 certied beamforming are essential antenna proles to cover many of the CPEs will be Wave 2 MIMO capable. technologies to deliver the promise worldwide spectrum allocations Airspan is focused on delivering Wave of Mobile WiMAX suitable for Mobile WiMAX. 2 compliant products, targeted at Option to overlay beamforming on Bands - 2.3-2.4GHz, 2.5-2.69GHz global proles in 2.5GHz as well as the top of MIMO other proles listed above. Mobile WiMAX network architecture 3.3-3.4GHz, 3.4-3.8GHz follows NRM • Mobile Station (MS) e.g. MiMAX USB • Access Service Network (ASN) e.g. HiperMAX • Connectivity Service Network (CSN) Industry standard solutions plus Airspan’s VoiceMAX 3 Mobile WiMAX Mobile WiMAX Network Airspan’s Mobile Station (MS) Performance Reference Model (NRM) device, MiMAX USB, is Wave 2 compliant from the outset and Using a commonly accepted Mobile WiMAX end-to-end network supports MIMO. evaluation methodology for 3G architecture model follows the systems, Mobile WiMAX has been Network Reference Model (NRM) Mobile WiMAX Technology simulated against the 3G shown below. enhancements. These simulations To deliver the superior performance have shown that: Access Service Network (ASN) Mobile WiMAX relies on advanced • Mobile WiMAX peak data rates are consists of the WiMAX Base technologies such as scalable better than 3G and 3G+ technologies Stations and the ASN Gateway. The OFDMA, MIMO and SAS. and main functions of the ASN gateway • Mobile WiMAX spectral eciency is are to aggregate the trac from MIMO stands for Multiple Input better than any 3G and 3G+ the base stations and to manage Multiple Output. It is an antenna technology handover between them. s technology that uses multiple antennas at both the transmit end and the receive end. MIMO utilizes Thanks to technologies such as Connectivity Service Network (CSN) multi-path to advantage, combining OFDMA and MIMO, Mobile WiMAX is the core of the network. It reected signals into a single stream can meet the demanding controls and manages the ASNs and in order to improve throughput, performance needs for the delivery the subscribers with a variety of reach and spectral eciency. of broadband services in a services including AAA, Home Agent challenging mobile environment. functions, DHCP server, etc. CSN is Smart Antenna Systems (SAS) is an Performance simulations show that also responsible for connecting to advanced antenna technology that Mobile WiMAX provides superior other networks and enables inter- directs the signal to the end user throughput and spectral eciency operator and inter-technology device. Using beamsteering/ compared to 3G CDMA-based roaming. Airspan’s VoiceMAX beamforming technology, SAS enhancements, EVDO and HSPA. solution resides in the CSN and is focuses the signal on active devices, These advantages will provide described later in this document. operators with added network delivering greater coverage and capacity for the support of value- spectral eciency. Airspan’s added services with fewer base antenna technology enables the stations than alternative overlay of SAS on top of MIMO. approaches, thus resulting in lower network capital and operating costs. Network Reference Model (NRM) R2 Home NAP NSP Internet BS R6 HA IMS Billing ASPs ASN IP R3 R8 GW CRM Mobile Station R1 Cloud (MS) (FA) IP Legacy DHCP/ Core Cloud AAA BS R6 DNS Networks ASN CSN (Access Service Network) (Connectivity Service Network) 2G/3G Mobile Networks R8 4R 5R Other Another ASN Operator’s NAP – Network Access Provider CSN NSP – Network Service Provider 4 WiMAX Applications WiMAX has already revolutionized the of life, covering social networking, broadband wireless market by education, emergency services and the standardizing the hitherto fragmented business world to name a few. Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) market, by opening up new service Mobile broadband opens up a whole opportunities and by creating the new high-speed data experience, environment for ubiquitous broadband which cannot be matched by the other services everywhere. mobile technologies available today. Imagine you decide to go for a walk to WiMAX bridges the xed wireline the nearby park during your lunch broadband and the mobile cellular break to enjoy the sunny weather. You divide. By deploying WiMAX receive a VoIP call from one of your technology, service providers can oer customers asking you to conrm not just xed broadband wireless product availability immediately so services to homes and businesses; they that they can place the order. You can also oer anytime, anywhere start a data session on your WiMAX mobile access to IP services at much enabled device, log on to the server at higher speeds than is possible with work and check the latest stock A World of Mobile voice-centric 3G networks. position. You then proceed to send an e-mail to your customer conrming and Fixed WiMAX Let’s now consider some of the IEEE that the product is in stock and you Applications 802.16e-2005 WiMAX applications receive the order before you have below.
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