MacroMAX was Airspan's first WiMAX compliant base station and was developed to comply with the IEEE 802.16-2004 standard.

 

MacroMAX has been shipping to customers since the summer of 2005. MacroMAX was the first base station product to achieve WiMAX ForumT certification in March 2006. More than 1000 MacroMAX base stations are in service.

 

MacroMAX has been designed to deliver the best link budget with the highest capacity and net throughput; all essential qualities for macro-cell deployments used in typical wireless roll out. It is available in the 3.4- 3.6GHz band in the 3.5F1 profile.

 

Each MacroMAX sector comprises of a 4U high rack mountable shelf, which contains the baseband processor and the RF unit. The baseband is a single card that is directly connected to the RF, PA and LNA, which in turn is connected to appropriate mastinstalled antennas via external feeders.

 

Two separate antennas enable the link budget to be further increased through the use of multi-channel transmit diversity and receive diversity.

 

A compact rack supports up to three sectors with diversity a full rack supports up to 4 sectors.

 

MacroMAX base stations can be optimised to support VoIP applications, using a standard gateway to the PSTN.

 

MacroMAX is managed by Netspan, the SNMP based element management platform.