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WiMAX Base Station Solutions |
Airspan's
WiMAX Solutions Chosen by Agile Communications in Australia
Other Topics: WiMAX
Devices Test Support,
Mobile WiMAX Certification Testing
Airspan Networks
February 17, 2008
Airspan Networks, a provider of WiMAX based
broadband wireless access networks, announced that its MicroMAX 3.4 GHz
base stations and corresponding ProST subscriber terminals have been
selected by Agile Communications, a regional telecommunications service
company that is part of the Internode group. |
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Internode is an
Australian nationwide broadband service providers. In addition to
metropolitan broadband service provision across Australia, the company
has been designing and rolling out sustainable broadband and voice
services in regional South Australia for more than seven years.
For six months last year, Agile carried out extensive field testing of
Airspan's 3.4 and 5.8 GHz WiMAX equipment for use throughout South
Australia's Yorke Peninsula and Coorong regions, covering over 15,000
square kilometers. The culmination of that testing coincided with the
Australian Government's announcement on October 17th, 2007 that
Internode would be providing broadband services across those regions
under the "Australian Broadband Guarantee" program. Since then over 10
base station sites have been installed and commissioned and customer
premises unit installations have begun.
"Airspan's broad coverage MicroMAX system is
well suited for Internode's needs. In the wide-ranging testing carried
out, we have confirmed the reliability of the MicroMAX system to cover
the terrain necessary to reach our end users. With speeds exceeding 6
mbp/s at distances of 30km and greater, this proven performance is
paramount to providing service under the Australian Broadband Guarantee
program," said Internode managing director Simon Hackett.
"The Australian WiMAX market continues to gain momentum and we are
pleased that Airspan has been there from the beginning with a regional
presence through our fully owned incorporated subsidiary, Airspan
Networks Pty Ltd, based in Sydney," said Grant Stepa, Airspan's Managing
Director & Vice President Australasia |
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